Time Management - Marc Mancini
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<strong>Time</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />
Insurance<br />
Insurance is something that allows you to pay for peace<br />
of mind. It’s a mechanism for minimizing the worst<br />
effects of unanticipated future disasters minimized by simply planning<br />
for them.<br />
There are many kinds of insurance, though, and many ways to “pay”<br />
for them. One form of payment is by spending time, rather than<br />
money, to make sure that the worst disasters that could befall you<br />
won’t be worse than necessary.<br />
You purchase life and property insurance with money. But you can<br />
“purchase” the same kind of peace of mind with respect to other critical<br />
elements of your life that are vulnerable to loss or damage—through<br />
good planning. The “insurance” you purchase with your time can be as<br />
valuable as the kind you purchase with money. Backing up your computer<br />
files, changing the batteries in your home smoke detectors, or even<br />
having the oil changed regularly in your car may take moments you’d<br />
rather be spending elsewhere. But don’t neglect these forms of self-protection<br />
simply because they require an investment of your precious<br />
time.They can, in the end, save far more time than they cost.<br />
and leave a second set with a relative or friend in a different<br />
community.<br />
• If these or any other important documents are on a computer<br />
disk, create a backup disk copy and a hard copy.<br />
Keep backup materials in another location, if possible.<br />
• Photocopy every page of your personal and business<br />
phone books every year (or create a new one and keep<br />
the old one for reference). If you store this information<br />
electronically, transfer it periodically to a backup system.<br />
• Photocopy your business card file every year. Again, if<br />
yours is electronic, create a backup copy from time to<br />
time.<br />
• Consider keeping two organizers: the primary one should<br />
be detailed; a second (kept separately) would perhaps list<br />
only weekly or monthly activities. One might be electronic,<br />
the other paper-based.<br />
• Develop two lists of equipment (see Figure 8-2) in case of<br />
burglary—one for home, one for business.