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Time Management And The Eat That Frog Technique

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I've been through them all. Psychology magazine articles. Blog posts across the Net. Even the latest books in the store.

Seems everyone is simply regurgitating the same old same old that has existed for 50 odd years. In fact, I realized much of my own work in the field of Time Management was actually no better. Complicated. Paraphrased. Impossible to achieve!

My natural time management skill was dormant, but I knew it was there because I remembered it from my early days. By that I mean my childhood. Children possess enough passion and enough unflinching desire to get what they want, that they simply go out and do it.

Now that's time management. And they never had to read Brian Tracy, David Allen, or... me.

But I was determined to continue evolving my work beyond today's standard and, whilst not perhaps becoming child like again, certainly reestablish my former youths passion, with my hard learned wisdom. I was an author after all. A personal organization expert. And I had conducted a unique 30 days self exposure time management seminar with great success. I was going to get to the bottom, the very roots of existing time management techniques, and I believe that will let me find something truly new.

My notes are being compiled and I will give the results to my time management subscribers. It's been a couple years now that I begun teaching how prioritizing by importance was destined to failure, despite being a wildly popular time management technique.

You'll see articles on time management telling you to prioritize by the ABCDE method. A's are of course top priorities, the most important things... things you should do first. Then come the B's and C's. Trouble is, there are always some A's, so when will you ever get any B's done? Let alone the C's.

In fact, these old time management techniques only worked for business managers in industrial manufacturing days. Or possibly for those today lucky enough to be in top positions with hordes of mid-level managers who they can Delegate to.

But if this method of prioritizing by A's, B's, etc. does not work, what are we left with? Is there really something to learn from how children approach the day?

Time Management Techniques are obsolete. Prioritizing by Importance does not work. Simply dropping your effort of getting these old techniques to work and just going with the flow will probably produce just as good results, whilst freeing your anxiety of failing with impossible time management training.

One of the best time management tips I learned from books was David Allen's idea to do something immediately (if possible/feasible/appropriate) if it was something that can be done within 2 minutes.

Brian Tracy taught me to 'eat that frog' which was great. Which is the idea to focus on the thing you want to do least, get it done, then move on to easier things.

All those tips are fine. They help. But there's more. I know it, and you know it. I'm carefully exploring my notes collected over 8 years and piecing together the origins of time management techniques. I believe, and hope, that doing so will lead me to something new.

Open your mind to a new modern natural way to time management, and I believe new doors will open for you as they are doing for me.