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Business or Personal - Control Equals Freedom

Most people believe that a rigid, planned schedule takes away your freedom and makes life dull - a "fun" killer. Actually, having detailed, "anal" schedule has just the opposite effect. It allows you to do what YOU know you need to be doing - even having fun.

Most people think that anal control over every minute of your day constrains you, robs you of fun and spontaneity, and turns you into a rigid freak.

They couldn't be more wrong. By controlling your time, your schedule and your actions, you gain total freedom by accomplishing what YOU need to accomplish, doing what YOU need to do, spending your time the way YOU need to spend it. All those "you" statements may sound selfish, but it's not when you are doing what YOU know is the right thing to do given the right priorities.

What's the alternative? Waking up and just "letting life happen" which typically includes other people and circumstances interrupt you constantly, allowing what other people declare as "urgent" to keep you from doing what is important... and finally allowing haphazard laziness and ...
... time wasting habits (TV anyone?) to steal away your most precious commodity: TIME.

What did you do with your time yesterday? How about last week this time? If you can't tell me, I can tell you: you wasted it. Threw it away. Gave it away. Blew it. Lost it.

If you schedule your day out, then YOU have control over it instead of allowing life to just "happen" to you. Other people and other circumstances don't care about what it important to you and they will gladly change your priorities for you. My rigid, "anal" schedule today is going to allow me to focus on and do what is most important to me. If someone interupts me with an urgent, but unimportant request, I simply tell them I cannot fit it in today.

I don't have a schedule to say "look at me". I have one so that when I lay down to go to sleep at 10pm tonight, I'm not going to be frustrated or feel guilty that I wasted time, made no progress with my life, or spent my whole day putting out "urgent but important" fires that other people forced on me.

The greatest freedom of all is going to sleep knowing that my priorities are correct, and my schedule reflected them - God, marriage, kids, business.

That's a typical "business day". On weekends or holidays, use the same scheduling technique to make sure those days are not just wasted away but filled up with meaningful, life-fulfilling, important things... even if those important things are rest, fun, play and family time. ESPECIALLY if they are those things.

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