We’ve all been lulled into the lie that time management is real. It’s a fairy tale at best, and an impossibility at worst.
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot
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– Michael Altshuler
We cannot manage time. All we can do is control the activities we choose with the time we have. This means we need a ruthless approach on the activities we perform, and whether we should continue to pursue them. To approach your activities with the understanding that not all of them will get done, does require courage. But in the end you’ll have the satisfaction that you performed the most important things, and therefore achieve peak productivity.
By appropriately engaging your time, and learning to defer certain activities that are low value. You will reduce your interference, which will increase your performance, and therefore increase your potential.
For more information, consider reading books like Getting Things Done by David Allen, and understand that activity management is the main priority of achieving productivity.