Time Management - Marc Mancini
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<strong>Time</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />
blocks of time for life’s pleasures. They know that certain things<br />
need to be organized and others do not. It is the poorly timemanaged<br />
who—because of disorganization, stress, and foggy<br />
priorities—lose the fun in life. And time-managed people can<br />
still profit from something that they could not have expected or<br />
planned.<br />
Indeed, sometimes our most productive ideas come to us in<br />
moments of spontaneity or play. People who have a firm control<br />
of their time are able to realize the joy that may come from a<br />
spontaneous moment. And they can recognize an unanticipated<br />
opportunity when they see one.<br />
If you haven’t engaged in at least two of the activities you<br />
find most enjoyable within the past month, you need to learn to<br />
manage your time to enable you to do so, regularly, in the<br />
future. Those who fail to find ways to take advantage of life’s<br />
joys prove to be less effective in their work environment than<br />
those whose lives are more well-rounded—despite the overcommitment<br />
of hours they allot to their jobs.<br />
The same thing is true of work itself. It’s important to pursue,<br />
among other job-related goals, the goal of doing work you<br />
enjoy and feel motivated to perform. One study concluded that<br />
the problem in America has rarely been high unemployment—<br />
rather, it has been high misemployment. What this really means<br />
is that many people work in jobs that give them no pleasure<br />
and for which they’re temperamentally unsuited.<br />
Karoshi<br />
In Japanese, this term means “death by overwork,” a syndrome<br />
that purportedly claims at least 75-100 lives a<br />
year in Japan. Studies indicate that of the 8,760 hours in a year, karoshi<br />
victims worked in excess of 3,000 hours during the year prior to their<br />
death. As a service to their employees, one Japanese company even<br />
provided actors who would visit the aging parents of overworked<br />
adult children too busy working to visit their parents themselves.<br />
Though few of us should fear karoshi, we should be especially careful<br />
not to allow overwork to drain energy and meaning from our lives.
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