This Is How Successful People Manage Their Time [YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS]

why is it that some people are more successful than others why is it that some people earn more money they have better jobs they get promoted more rapidly they live longer they have better health they have happier relationships and yet the great massive men and women by their own admission live lives of quiet desperation well I studied this over and over again I traveled in over 80 countries on Seven Continents I have learned and spoken three four different languages I have spent over thirty thousand hours studying and I've come to a very simple conclusion that successful people are those who do things differently from unsuccessful people I've also come to another conclusion is that you or anybody can be far more successful at life or anything that you want if you will simply learn how and practice it over and over again until it becomes a habit now no matter what field you're in no matter what field of endeavor no matter what work no matter what activity there is one thing that all successful people have in common is that they are good time managers and the reason they are good time managers is because they recognize that time management is life management it is personal management I have never seen an example in the hundreds thousands of biographies and autobiographies I've studied of successful men and women where the individual has not been well organized and if efficient and valued and used their times well successful people winners use their time well losers do not the key to time management is self-discipline but probably the best way to put it is this is time management is self-discipline in action and self-discipline is the key to success the most important of all the core of time management the axle around which The Wheel of Life turns is goals what are your goals what is it that you want to be or to have or to do what is it that you want to accomplish in the next one two three four five years the top three percent in every field have goals the balance of the population have either very vague goals or no goals at all so the question you have to ask yourself is who am I where am I going what do I want to accomplish and there are three major areas of goals that you have to think about the first is your personal and your family goals these are the reasons why you're alive what do you want to accomplish for yourself and for your family write them down Define them clearly the second set of goals that you have to ask is your business your career your financial your material goals what is it that you want to accomplish in the external world where do you want to make your contribution the third type of goals you have to ask about are your self-development goals and in my estimation your ability and your willingness and your tenaciousness in developing yourself is the key to accomplishing everything else you run the day or it runs you it's not that difficult to get something started and you run it for a while and after a while it starts running you that's part of the challenge the time you've already committed to labor is enough time if you're working already eight ten hours a day that's about it you just can't work much more than that uh bursts at a time you can work 12 14 16 right and I'm sure we've all learned to do that put in the extra time but after a while you pretty well have to put your life in balance or your health is in Jeopardy and your heart's in Jeopardy your blood pressure is in Jeopardy a lot of things uh if you don't stay in balance so you don't have to put any more hours probably all you have to do is just make better use of the hours a cliche we've all heard it's not the hours you put in it's what you put in the hours that counts now also you need a written set of goals time management essential and a constant review of your goals because that's how you determine how to use your time whatever priorities you're going for then you need a plan to achieve your goals another key is learning to separate Majors from minors that's high on the list making sure you don't spend major time on minor things this is why you need to think on paper put your game plan on paper to make sure you're not spending major time on minor things little phrase I have says don't mistake movement for achievement it's not that difficult to get busy what you have to do is check to see what you're busy on because it's easy to haul out the trash and fix the screen door get the car washed take the kids to school I mean it's easy to stay busy right the key is on what next time management essential is concentration zeroing in preoccupation is fatal both on the freeway and in business you got to keep your mind concentrated I have a little rule that says don't start the business day till you get to the office I used to start my business day in the shower or at the breakfast table and it just messed up a lot of things I'm sitting at The Breakfast Table guess where my mind is at the office I even got mixed up going to the beach and you know trying to you know do some relaxing time but sure enough when I'm in the office I'm thinking about the beach and when I'm on the beach I'm saying I should be at the office now see that's mixed up wherever you are be there if you're at The Breakfast Table be there when you're having a conversation with somebody be there when you're on your way to work be there enjoy the ride but take a look around you what's going on study human nature what's happening you know be there the next time management essential is when you work work when you play play that one I learned the hard way see if you're going to put in a day just put in the whole day and if you're going to take some time off take it all off I take the whole day off if you're going to work a day work a good long hard day if you're going to play play play all day either work all day or play all day because guess what if you're gonna if you're gonna knock off at three and go play guess what you're thinking about all morning right knocking off at three o'clock I mean it just you know it's one of those things you just it's hard to zero in you know on something and make it productive if you're making plans to do something else I have a builder friend of mine up in San Jose his name is Peter Paulson uh Peter's got it down pat Peter Works a week and takes off a week so he's got it arranged he's a builder now it's kind of clever though see he works five days takes off nine that's a little he says work a week take off a week girl but it's really five and nine because it's five and then it's a weekend and five days and another weekend right so uh but what Peter does the five days he puts in he works you know 14 16 hours almost around the clock keeps two or three secretaries going gives all the orders the accountants the superintendents the builders the whole thing gets it all arranged and works around the clock for five days and then goes takes off now you know you might not have the luxury of being able to do