To become a professional at any of the 10 best ways to earn money while simultaneously changing the world and making it a better place, you will need to become incredibly efficient, focused, effective, and productive.
Generally speaking, when individuals think of the concept of “time management”, the first thing that comes to their minds is expensive planners and complicated software that they are not quite sure how to use. The second thing that comes to their mind are tips and tricks that they’ve learned from time management books and seminars, but don’t quite exactly remember.
A majority of the tools and techniques that I just mentioned actually do not do that much. They are merely band aids, and they only address the superficial issue. They do very little to improve the underlying foundation of your time management skills, and they are unable to permanently solve the problem.
I do love good tools and tips, and I think that they can be incredibly useful in many scenarios. I am always looking for new ones to increase my productivity, and I am constantly giving them to my clients in order to help them do the same. They have helped me to accomplish a lot over the years, and I truly am grateful for a majority of them.
That being said, the mastery of time is much more than that. The mastery of time is born from deep clarity, and it is truly an alignment of your highest visions, values, goals, dreams, priorities, actions, habits, and strategic plans. Mastering time is also the same as mastering yourself.
If you want to achieve the mastering of time at this level, you must also learn how to master your emotions as well. You must become good at mastering your current state of mind, and you must master who you are on a day-to-day level.
How you spend your time and how productive you are is a direct result of your state of mind at the time. Who you are deeply affects the results that you get from your actions.
First, you must discover and pinpoint what your deepest values are. Then, once you have accomplished this, you must decide on a straightforward and compelling vision that successfully coexists with and reflects these values. Now it is time for you to create goals that will allow you to achieve this vision. Then create a strategic plan that allows you to achieve all of the goals that you have set forth for yourself. Once you have done this, it is time for you to make a personal commitment to the plan and goals that you have made. The final step is to ensure that you engage completely with these goals, and that you wholeheartedly embrace them. This means that everything you do on a daily basis, including your habits, must be aligned with the vision that you have come up with.
If you successfully achieve this clarity, commitment, and alignment, you have set yourself up for an unbelievably powerful level of productivity and achievement. This productivity in turn leads to momentum and direct results. Both of these things combined are the basic foundation of the mastering of time.
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