Time Management - Marc Mancini
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<strong>Time</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />
• Raise the behavior to full consciousness.<br />
• Recognize that it produces more stress than results.<br />
• Resolve to try to let go of the habit, since it’s clearly<br />
counterproductive.<br />
• Realize that if you let it go, it will not be the end of the<br />
world.<br />
• Replace it with a behavior that is less stressful but at least<br />
as effective as what it supplanted.<br />
• Repeat the new pattern until it becomes neutral, relaxing,<br />
and accepted.<br />
Individual, isolated, obsessive actions are not always the<br />
problem. More common is a general overemphasis on the<br />
importance of time. Indeed, in lay terms, this is what obsessiveness<br />
is all about. It conjures images of a person who uses a<br />
blender to avoid chewing, who wants to watch 60 Minutes in 30<br />
minutes, who is, deep down, either frantic or a workaholic.<br />
Everyone, at one time or another, gets obsessive about<br />
time. Here are some examples:<br />
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• People who feel guilty when they do nothing productive<br />
on the weekends.<br />
• People who stay at work beyond their official work hours<br />
more than once a week.<br />
• A person who tries to arrive exactly on time—neither early<br />
nor late—for appointments.<br />
• A driver who is upset by red traffic lights.<br />
• Shoppers who get upset when the other line at the supermarket<br />
checkout stand moves faster than theirs.<br />
• People who (a) subscribe to more than six magazines and<br />
(b) feel guilty if they throw one away unread.<br />
• A person who dreads vacations because work won’t get<br />
done back at the office.<br />
• People who lose their temper at work more than they’d<br />
like to.<br />
• People who, when alone at home, pick up the phone<br />
when it rings, even if they’re busy doing something important.