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The quality of your life is largely determined by the quality of your time management. But time management is really personal management, life management. It is management of yourself. If you don’t control your time properly, it is difficult for you to control anything else.
Fortunately, the richest, most successful person in the world has the same twenty-four hours per day that you have. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people, sometimes with less potential and fewer opportunities, often accomplish vastly more than others because they use their time in a better and more effective way.
Your highest paid, most important skill is your ability to think , both before you act and while you are acting. It is your ability to choose what is more important and what is less important.
Psychologists tell us that your level of self-esteem —how much you like and respect yourself—is the key measure of how happy you are in any area of your life. The key to high self-esteem is a feeling of self-efficacy —the confidence that you can master your life, achieve your goals, perform your tasks, and get the results that are expected of you and that you expect from yourself.
Your most valuable financial asset is your earning ability . This is your ability to get results that people will pay you for. This again is largely determined by how you use your time when you are working and before and after your work.
Thomas Edison once wrote, “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is why most people would rather die than think.”
The way you think about time and the various possible ways you can use your time largely determine your effectiveness and the quality of every part of your life.