Being in control of your time is important if you are a hard worker, with a family, and have other needs and requirements to meet. When you are not in control of your time, you success is at risk. To be a successful individual in life, you should not feel frustrated or stress. Nor should you have doubts, fears, or a feeling of no direction or motivation. This type of situation often leads to stress, which is proven to be one of the direct causes of lack of time management and control. Procrastination is often the leading cause that stumps slackers from becoming successful. However, other factors can contribute to why someone is not managing their time appropriately. In my last article I spoke about goals, but I think it is just as important to inform the audience how being in control of their time, makes all the difference in the world, even with individuality. Our individuality requires us to feel good, have a good self-esteem, and quality level of self-confidence. When we are not in control, we loose control. The fact is, the government and law already takes a measure of our control out of our hands, so control is a struggle we have to obtain that suits our individuality. Managing time means we need to set goals that we can achieve and work hard to achieve those goals. Time management also means that we have to cut the procrastination and get our body and minds motivated to clean up our act. We can start by organizing our home and office, and then work toward a list that will direct us where we are headed each day. The rule of thumb is “Don’t put off, what you can do today.”
After our priorities are in order, the rest will work smoothly. All of us have the capacity to achieve and be successful. All of us have the ability to take control of our lives, and stop doubting our abilities to be successful. The ability lies within our minds, and when we take charge of our brains, (Mind over matter), we have the ability to go to any level of achievement we desire. Now before you fire up those barrels, make sure you got your priorities in order, since this is a part of the key to managing time and taking control of your life. Negative energy is a charge that sends out negative results, so you might want to take a few notes on how to think positive if you are a pessimistic. I wanted to bring this point out, which we will talk more about later in a different article, but it is the root of all evil in its own way. Positive thinkers often look forward to success, while negative thinkers are often reluctant to take hold of a good thing, and that includes their own control. This is a problem since time management is often difficult for these types of thinkers. In conclusion we can see time management includes being in control!

Confronting the issues that hold us back is useful in managing time. We all have fears, doubts, failures, inconsistencies, illnesses, accidents, incidents, and so on. There is no way to escape these negative truths in life. Therefore, what can we do to contribute to our time, is manage it accordingly to life’s limitations and inabilities. If you think you are going to walk through life without something happening to you or someone you love, you had better rethink, since you are letting yourself down and wasting time doing it. Life is REAL! It is not a game of truth and dare, it is a matter of what we face each day, and sometimes we have no clue what we will face. Time is one of the most valuable gifts that we have and we can use it wisely or waste our time relentlessly. No matter what our current situation something is going to happen and we must learn confrontation skills to avoid complete failure. We can look at many examples in our life, or in our past. Let’s say we had a time management plan and it was working smoothly, but one fatal day a terrorist attacked our neighborhood, or a storm blew our hard work out the door. What are you going to do? Did you calculate in your time management plan a solution for disaster? If you are not getting off the ground in a short time after these disasters hit then the answer is obvious. What do you do when you fall and break your leg? Does you time management scheme have a solution? If it doesn’t you are going in to set back mode which is obviously going to take longer to rebuild. Regardless of the situation, confronting the reality is the main key to surviving the realities of life. In order to confront life, we must look at all angles of realities that may impose themselves in our time management plans.

In order to achieve a healthy level of confrontation is to understand what it really means to confront your problems. Most of us have natural abilities to face what is put in front of us, but when it comes to situations out of our control…this is when we often loose control. Loosing control is obviously a step backwards in our time management plans. Control on the other hand is having the ability to work toward a future and at the same time realizing that the future promises, us nothing and that anything can happen at any given moment in time. This is reality!
Once you face reality, confrontation will come easy.

After studying human beings for the most part of my life, I observed closely as people denied there faults, feared risks and challenges, intimidated by their mistakes, reluctant to stand up and tell another person they were wrong, and failed to allow them self to control their own being. The source I found was FEAR. Fear seems to play a large role in all aspects of human beings. If we are constantly afraid, how can we allow our selves to manage time? We can’t because our time is being wasted on what we may or may not have control of. Therefore, the solution to diverting a good time management scheme is stepping back and looking in. Confrontation is telling our selves that it is ok to make mistakes. When we make mistakes, we learn and can move ahead. Confrontations is letting us know that we have the right to confront any problem that steps in front of us, and we have a degree of power to change what has happen to us or someone we love. We have the right to tell someone that there influence is provoking our thoughts, and we need them to stand back and take a look at what they are saying to others. We have the right to stand up for our own beliefs and hold firm in our power to resurrect our selves when accidents, incidents, illnesses, failures, or other negative connotations arise. We have the power within us to move forward. There is nothing in life that can stop us from reaching our goals in life, but our selves and God.

Control is the power to manage. When we have control of our lives and self, we have the ability to manage anything that involves our self. Of course, no one has entire control over anything, but we all have a degree of control over most things that involve us. We must remember that all things in life affect us in some sort of way, and when we are strategizing a time management scheme, we need to factor in all details of life. You might think that time management is a quick process, but when you sit down and start your calculations, you will soon learn that the process takes time to complete. Team effort is great, but if you are in time management alone for yourself, then the road can be rockier. Now you know why man came up with the idea of Stop, Yield and Go lights. Time management has its own stop, go, and yield signs. In order to start a time management plan you need to calculate and analyze your plan carefully to weed out flaws, evaluating where your time is spent.
Once you start your calculations you will see that time is an equal and subtract strategy. If you went to school wondering why they taught math, you will soon learn why since math is not only consisting of numbers, but it is consisting of calculations that lead to success. In order to add and subtract time, you must first calculate time with family, friends, work, self, and so on. You must also calculate ‘problem areas’ that may occur. For example, is your computer going to work continuously without problems? NO! Therefore, you need to calculate large and small disasters into the equation of time management. This is the beginning process of controlling time management, but it is nowhere near the full details of completing the process. The fact is there is no end to managing time as we all have areas that need thorough research to bring us to the point of perfection. When we calculate time management, we must include details such as, entertainment, lounging, relaxing, meals, dressing, and everything that makes us who we are. If you are spending too much time in one area, you can cut back time by spending more time in important areas. For example, if it takes you 45 minutes in the morning to get motivated, it is most likely a result of procrastination and lack of preparation. Now, to cut back time you will need to think! Thinking is the process of bringing forth results either negative or positively. Why is it taking me 45 minutes to get dressed in the morning? Are you searching through your closet trying to find a suit that works for your atmosphere? The solution then is taking a few minutes each night to pick your attire fore the next day, so that when you get up in the morning you only need to dress. The fact is, any person can get up in the morning, put on make-up, clothes, and even style their hair in less than 45 minutes. Even models, actors, and actresses are limited to how much time they spend on dressing. If you think about it, when women go on stage for a beauty pageant, they are limited in how much time they spend on getting ready for the show. The producers or directors invested some of their time to make sure that their time management scheme was running smoothly, by controlling what their actors were doing with their time. When I modeled lingerie, I had five minutes most time to do my hair, make-up, and dress. Therefore, if you are spending 45 minutes dressing, there is no logical explanation needed, you are slacking. Now we can subtract at least 30 minutes from dressing and move forward to other areas in our life where our time is either spent well, or wasted.
What are you doing at work? Are you standing around drinking a cup of coffee chatting online, with a co-worker, or on the phone? If you are, you are not only wasting company time, you are wasting your time. Time management includes you. Unless you don’t have a goal in mind, this is not a controlling method in time management.

Control is the power to manage. When we have control of our lives and self, we have the ability to manage anything that involves our self. Of course, no one has entire control over anything, but we all have a degree of control over most things that involve us. We must remember that all things in life affect us in some sort of way, and when we are strategizing a time management scheme, we need to factor in all details of life. You might think that time management is a quick process, but when you sit down and start your calculations, you will soon learn that the process takes time to complete. Team effort is great, but if you are in time management alone for yourself, then the road can be rockier. Now you know why man came up with the idea of Stop, Yield and Go lights. Time management has its own stop, go, and yield signs. In order to start a time management plan you need to calculate and analyze your plan carefully to weed out flaws, evaluating where your time is spent.
Once you start your calculations you will see that time is an equal and subtract strategy. If you went to school wondering why they taught math, you will soon learn why since math is not only consisting of numbers, but it is consisting of calculations that lead to success. In order to add and subtract time, you must first calculate time with family, friends, work, self, and so on. You must also calculate problem areasthat may occur. For example, is your computer going to work continuously without problems? NO! Therefore, you need to calculate large and small disasters into the equation of time management. This is the beginning process of controlling time management, but it is nowhere near the full details of completing the process. The fact is there is no end to managing time as we all have areas that need thorough research to bring us to the point of perfection. When we calculate time management,we must include details such as, entertainment, lounging, relaxing, meals, dressing, and everything that makes us who we are. If you are spending too much time in one area, you can cut back time by spending more time in important areas. For example, if it takes you 45 minutes in the morning to get motivated, it is most likely a result of procrastination and lack of preparation. Now, to cut back time you will need to think! Thinking is the process of bringing forth results either negative or positively. Why is it taking me 45 minutes to get dressed in the morning? Are you searching through your closet trying to find a suit that works for your atmosphere? The solution then is taking a few minutes each night to pick your attire fore the next day, so that when you get up in the morning you only need to dress. The fact is, any person can get up in the morning, put on make-up, clothes, and even style their hair in less than 45 minutes. Even models, actors, and actresses are limited to how much time they spend on dressing. If you think about it, when women go on stage for a beauty pageant, they are limited in how much time they spend on getting ready for the show. The producers or directors invested some of their time to make sure that their time management scheme was running smoothly, by controlling what their actors were doing with their time. When I modeled lingerie, I had five minutes most time to do my hair, make-up, and dress. Therefore, if you are spending 45 minutes dressing, there is no logical explanation needed, you are slacking.Now we can subtract at least 30 minutes from dressing and move forward to other areas in our life where our time is either spent well, or wasted.
What are you doing at work? Are you standing around drinking a cup of coffee chatting online, with a co-worker, or on the phone? If you are, you are not only wasting company time, you are wasting your time. Time management includes you. Unless you dont have a goal in mind, this is not a controlling method in time management.

Managing stress and time is a rewarding achievement that all must maintain in order to reach success. Each day we wake up, we begin by stressing to meet deadlines, demands, and finding time to spend with our family, selves and friends. This seems virtually impossible since there are only 24-hours in a single day and at least of eight of those hours are consumed with sleep. The challenge of maintaining stress and time brings forth many obstacles, and most times, we find it difficult to maintain. In this article, we are going to work some techniques that help reduce stress and add more time to your management scheme. See, stress is a direct result of not handling your emotions in accordance to the many stressors that attack your life. The key then is finding a solution to get in touch with your emotions. When our emotions are in a sudden outburst, we often suffer tremendous and lack the ability to function to our fullest capacity. Emotions can also affect how we hear people talk, and how we talk to people. This is called irrational behavior since the mind is not thinking to its capacity. The key then is finding a “rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT),” that works best for your mind. REBT is an action process that requires the individual to approach his or her emotions, while providing them the support to stay in contact with who they are and at the same time find a resolve within self. The plan makes it a convenient method in approaching life’s problems in full light, while overcoming stress. The therapy technique requires only a few minutes of your time each day. We can start by telling our minds to think positive and believe in what we are telling ourselves. Emotions are a strong force we want to stop before they take control of our lives. If we have negative emotions, it affects our time management scheme since negative emotions puts fear and doubt into our heads.

Thinking Positive:

We all must remember that we are responsible for decisions and behaviors, and that stress is the product of irrational thinking. By learning how to think reasonable and keeping a positive outlook on life, it is possible to manage stress and time. To learn we must practice. Practice makes perfect! This means that you will take a few minutes per day to tell yourself that you are responsible for you, and that you have full control of your mind and the decisions you make. You have control of your behavior and no one else. Once you have accepted responsibility of your actions and decisions you will soon find the rest an easy road to travel. In other words, you will soon follow a pattern of wise decisions, when you learn to trust self and accept that we all make mistakes.
Mistakes are common, but the key to success is learning from your mistakes. If you are stressed as a result of overloads in the workplace, home, and world, then you need to set up some space for yourself. This means that your time management scheme will need thoughtful planning so that you achieve a specific level of time to manage your stress. Putting off your responsibilities is the process of creating more problems. Therefore, it is important that you create a plan and carrying out the responsibilities as soon as possible. This is putting your plans into action. Action is the process of making something work. When you are working toward goals, things will run smoothly since your plan is in place.
Once you reach your short-term goals, the next step is working to achieve your long-term goal, which requires more action on your part and follow the same golden rules. So take the time out each day to think positive, since motivation is essential for time management and reducing stress. Do not get caught up in self-punishment, which can only bring you down and stumble your time management scheme. Risks are fine as long as you do not have danger in your way. Remember taking risks is a part of life, and this article is geared to dare you to take the risk to become more productive in your everyday life.