How do you manage your time?

I can’t forget in a hurry my struggles with simple habits. The most annoying of my bad habits was poor time management. I can still remember how i use to get determined every passing day never to get late for meetings. My prompt and regular apologies for ALWAYS coming late were always embarrassing. I almost thought i was under a deep spell until i realized that my struggles were only based on what i felt SHOULD be done.


I was just putting my room in order about two weekends ago when In the process of clearing and organizing, I came across some notes I wrote to myself on essential time Management (I wrote this notes about 14months ago). The word essential refers to the essence of who we are as well as the essence of time management, and how to take time management out of the realm of the ego and have it emanate from the soul. Time management becomes much more compelling when it emanates from the soul. Although still rife with challenges, it’s easier to align with and feel motivated from a deeper truer part of yourself – from your soul rather than your ego. Discipline, then, is an expression of your deepest truth rather than just a “should”.

The “African time” culture is already part of our being in this part of the world and it’s destroying our personal values, our income potentials, our business opportunities and also our economy as a whole. I have personally canvassed that the real truth every man should embrace is self management and not time management. It might be hard to tell what your time is really worth until you know what you’re really worth.

Self management means your true self, purpose and your intentionality is then merged with your actions. Applying WILL to your life means getting present, getting on track, bringing your soul into focus, getting clear highly-tuned dynamic movement. How you use your time determines whether your life is an expression and fulfillment of who you really are, what you want, and your life purpose and mission. That’s the main reason to practice essential time management. Self consciousness and awareness must be attained by the individual. To be inspired and intentional and move toward greater satisfaction and fulfillment, to have time for contemplation, fun, being ourselves, being with those we value, and leisure, allowing and expressing your heart’s desire!

What we’ve been told about ourselves (and what we’ve continued to tell ourselves) also affects how we use our time. What do you tell yourself? What have others told you? Cease to keep this a secret. It liberates so much energy to bring this into the daylight. It has taken more energy than you realize to keep it hidden, to attempt to compensate, etc… You can use that energy in better ways! Allow it to serve your transformation instead. Truthfulness is the agent of transformation: Telling the truth about who and how we are. The lies we believe and repeat keep us from truly supporting ourselves. THIS is the core of procrastination. (i’m very guilty of this because i have about 40 fresh posts that can really inspire lots of people but i just refuse to post them because i was “busy”.)


Continuing to tell ourselves the truth is essential for progress. Holding the bigger picture is a discipline. Keep returning. No need to judge yourself for losing focus, it’s completely natural to do so; just renew your focus again and again.Return to sensing what you really want and what’s important to you; reconnect with yourself, your purpose, your highest intentions. Remember and value who you really are and your purpose. True discipline will arise naturally. This is like a muscle; it’ll become stronger as you use it and challenge yourself regularly. Remember how I spontaneously found myself organizing and clearing?


As much as we may want them, we also fear having love and success because we fear having them and then losing them. Again. We don’t want to feel the pain of that loss which will remind us of the other times that we’ve experienced these losses. THIS is one of the main obstacles to true time management!

I return to these notes from time to time, learning something new or deepening my understanding each time. Since I've shifted and grown since I last read them, I'm able to see or hear some things in a different way, it's able to penetrate further, and my understanding has shifted too. I know that Essential Time Management is key to living the life of my dreams so I persevere......and keep returning.

Can you imagine how my old write up inspired me? You can always stay inspired by staying in the zone.

I believe in you.