Your Time Management Could be Making you Sick
Our health is impacted by how we manage our time
The way we manage our lives, work, shop, socialize (or lack of socializing), and nourish ourselves on and off our plate, impacts our nervous system and our overall health.
Our lives have changed, our world has changed.
Do you want to feel more energized, productive, less tension, have more free time, feel good about yourself and change the quality of your sleep?
It could all start with managing your time more efficiently. The care and attention we give to ourselves is an important investment of our time. Along with working and managing life, schedule time to relax and rejuvenate physically and mentally . As a result, you will start to have more energy, feel alert and accomplish tasks with ease.
Your personality tells a lot about how you manage your time.
Finding the best way to manage your schedule depends highly on your personality type, your ability to self-motivate, level of alertness during the day, and your self-discipline. When you understand what motivates you to keep you going, it’s consistency that will keep you growing. Take time to work with your personality type and play to your strengths. There are so many personality assessments to try and when you do more than one, it is fun and interesting to learn from each and see the similarities and truths.
Research shows that multitasking makes it harder to get back on track when switching from one project to another. Try focusing on one thing at a time and designate the time to start or complete it? You will not only feel a sense of accomplishment, but a sense of ease and joy. Finding calendars or systems to put into place is also a reflection of your personality and how you like to organize and manage your personal life and work life.
Prioritizing your days, weeks and year is a good way to start. Not everything has to get done in one day. Make your lists to be intentional and look at where you need to be spending your precious time in all areas of your life.
There are only 24 hours in a day (1,440 minutes, or 86,000 seconds) and we are always checking the clock and wonder why there is never enough.
We all have full lives. We over-commit ourselves, accumulate lots of “things”, i.e, clutter, feel guilty, hold our breath, skip meals, don’t get enough sleep, and put our self-care last. Hmmm, does this sound a little familiar? Are you forever writing daily to-do lists, and rewriting the same list again and again, thinking the new prettier version of the list will make it easier to accomplish everything? This all leads to exhaustion and possibly frequent illnesses, like headaches, sleepless nights, chronic fatigue, mood swings, and lack of energy. You don’t have to live this way.
You cannot manage time; you manage the events in your life in relation to time.
Consider bookending your days with a ritual or routine. The morning routine and the evening/before bedtime routine. Wake up refreshed and renewed and go to sleep with ease! These small steps can get you on the path to starting and ending your day with a feeling of success, accomplishment and less overwhelm about what you did not get done. Remember, You. Are. Enough. When you know that you are enough, that you did your best and tomorrow is a new fresh day, you are caring deeply about your wellbeing.
