Focus on What Matters — Part 1

Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. Wherever your geographical location, I want to welcome you to my post.

This post is an extract and summary from my blog post published recently. I have been speaking lately to many people struggling to cope and what I hear familiar is the statement "I don't have time." I don't think the issue is about not having time as we all have equal time allocated to us in a day.

The full title of today's post is "Saving Time by Focusing on What Matters." Life is short; you need to focus on what really matters most. You must change your priorities over time.

There are two parts to the subject of the post: focus and what matters. The result is you will save time. Why is it important for you to save time? If you are successful in managing your time properly, you will meet your deadlines easily and this is progress and success. These accomplishments will make you feel a sense of confidence in your abilities. The confidence will build you and make you grow stronger with time. You will begin to create a habit of finishing your task, and the consistency in completing your daily to-do list is a huge inspiration that can drive you to further improve your time management skills. Once you have improved your time management skills, you can take on new challenges and new work opportunities.

Self-improvement takes time. Just as a car needs petrol to function, you need constant development to master your game. Life is a game, and we are all players, participants, in the reserve bench, spectators, and empire. You do not have to wait for tomorrow before you start improving and enhancing your skills. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Faith is now, this moment, and not tomorrow. You need to act now. If you wait for a perfect condition, you will never get anything done. Time waits for no one. Time is not going to wait for you to be ready. You must be prepared now. It is not comfortable, but you must be prepared. You have no choice not to.

Self-worth is a term used to define a person's overall emotional evaluation of their specific worth. It is a conviction of oneself and an attitude toward the self. Self-worth encompasses beliefs such as 'I am competent', 'I am worthy' and emotions like triumph, despair, pride, and shame. People with healthy self-worth like themselves and value their achievements. While everyone lacks confidence on occasion, people with low self-worth feel unhappy or unsatisfied with themselves most of the time. Your time is your money. How much time do you invest in yourself to make yourself worthy?

Note that your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth. Sometimes, you must forget what you feel and remember what you deserve. You accepted less because you thought a little was better than nothing. Know your worth.

When you know your worth, you will be focused only on what matters to you. You need to continue to learn how to manage your time effectively. Once you understand how to manage your time efficiently, it allows you to be more focused on your endeavours, enabling you to make significant accomplishments with less time available. You will learn how to leverage time. You will know how to squeeze time and make every time at your disposal work and be productive.

The problem is not that you don't have enough time. You do. You are not disciplined enough to learn how to manage your time. Your time is money because your work takes time. If time equals money, then if you own money, you own other people's time. Right? If you have heard me before, I said we all have equal 24 hours in a day, but some people in that 24 hours have more because they bought other people's time. Yes! You can buy time. You cannot spend more than 24 hours a day, but you can still leverage and spread the time. It is possible to spend 96 hours in 24 hours. How? By buying other people's time.

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