Welcome Video

Welcome to the course that will make you a master of your time.

Welcome!

Recorded March 2024

Welcome to your Time Mastery course.

Each lesson will give you tips and techniques to have a go at and adapt to your own needs in order to be more productive and effective each day. The lesson lengths include time to watch the video or read the transcript, and then have a go at the technique mentioned.

If you have any questions or want some ideas on how to tailor each of the lessons to your circumstances then do not hesitate to get in touch.

To your success,

Jaiye

Video Transcript

Welcome to your course on Time Mastery. I am very grateful to have you here and I am so excited to share some of the tips and tricks that I have been honing myself over the last couple of years to help me be more effective and productive.

But what I want to start with is by saying that time cannot be managed. Full stop. Time is just, it’s a measurement. It’s something that our ancient ancestors, the Mayans, all of the old societies, put together as a way of measuring the hours in a day. The hours in a month. The hours in a week. The number of months in a year… Basically it’s a measurement of how our planet rotates around its axis, and around the Sun.

So time is just, it’s a human concept. No other creature on the planet that we know of uses time or the word time, even our Ancient Ancient Ancient ancestors didn’t have a concept of time. They just went through in the same way as all the other creatures and all the other life forms on our planet, even the planet itself, they go through cycles and a day as we call it is just a cycle. It starts in the dark, it comes light, and it goes dark again, and most creatures have then adapted to those cycles.

Humans, because we have the ability to think and we like to have this idea that we have kind of a control over something, and we like to be organised, we came up with the concept of time. Putting in hours and putting in the Universal time grids and things around the world. So for example here where I am, I am on London time, so UTC Zero, GMT in the winter BST in the summer. My friends in the states you’ve got five / six different time zones that cover your whole country, same with China, Australia’s got different time zones. OK, I kind of count myself lucky as only having one in the UK because it stops us from getting too confused, but that doesn’t work when you’re in a bigger country!

So “time” is something that humans have created and as such it’s something that we cannot change, add to, take away from, move around or anything. At 12:00 it is 12:00 where you are, it could be 5:00 somewhere else, but where you are that is the time of the day. For example; schools they start anywhere between quarter to 9, 9am in the morning and they finish around 3 to half past 3. Workplaces, 9 to 5 jobs, it’s a concept of time that we’ve just put a measurement to.

So how can I write a course in time management? Well I want to share a little story with you that I learned from or I heard from my mentor Bob Proctor about time. So when he first started getting into this kind of material, into all the personal development and things like that, his mentor was somebody that Bob really admired and every opportunity you got to sit down with this man, his name was Ray Stanford I think or it might have been Earl Nightingale it’s one of the two that he worked with really really closely, I think it was Earl Nightingale, Bob really admired the fact that Earl always got everything done that he needed to get done. He never seemed to be in a hurry, but yet he was really effective and productive with his time, and over breakfast one morning Bob sat with Earl and said, “how do you manage time? How do you manage to get all of this done and still have time to do the other things?”

Because I don’t know about you but before I came across this information time was just, it’s always against you isn’t it? You don’t have time in the day. You don’t have time to do those things that you want to do because you’ve got to go and do something else instead. You don’t have time to get that report done, you don’t have time to go to the gym… It’s quite a wide ranging concept and idea that we just don’t have time.

Bob asked Earl this and Earl turned around and said, “I don’t manage time. Nobody manages time. We each have all the time there is. We each have the same number of hours in each day. The Millionaires and billionaires have exactly the same 24 hours in a day as the people who say they don’t have time.” And he said, “what I do is I manage my activities.”

So we can’t manage time but we can manage what we do with the time that we have and that is what I want to share on this course.

I’m going to show you different ways of managing your activity, how to keep yourself on track, how to turn that dreaded to-do list into something that feels a little bit more fun, a little bit more inviting. I’m going to show you how to get more aware when you are off track, when you’re doing that dreaded procrastination.

I even explained it to my daughter this morning. I said to her “oh I can sort that out later when I’m procrastinating,” and she went, “what does that mean Mummy?” and I said, “it’s that thing you do when you’ve got this whole list of other things that you need to do, but you’re just going to go and do that.” And she looked at me funny and I said, “you know when you’re supposed to be cleaning your bedroom?” and she went, “yeah…”

“Well you’re in your bedroom and you’re surrounded by all this stuff that needs to be tidied up, you need to put the Barbies away, you need to fold your clothes and put them back in your cupboard, or at least put them in the cupboard or near the cupboard or ask me to help you fold them to put them in the cupboard… You need to move some of the things off of your bed so you’ve got somewhere to go to sleep. You need to clean your desk because we haven’t seen the top of the desk in a little while,” (and that’s the way she is and that’s how she is) and I said to her, “so you’re looking at all this stuff that you know you need to do,” she went, “yeah…”

“But you sit on the floor and read a book. Or you sit on the floor and write something, or draw something. Or you start setting up another thing to play with later…” she went, “yeah…” I was like, “that’s procrastinating! That’s doing something that really doesn’t need to be done to avoid doing the things that you know need to be done.”

And it’s the difference between the knowing that it needs to be done and the actual doing it that dictates how productive or effective we are during a day. So if you know it’s got to be done and you do it, you are very productive, you are very effective. If you know it needs to be done but you’re not really doing it, that’s where you lose your productivity and that’s what Earl said to Bob.

He says, “I don’t manage my time, I manage my activity,” and I’m going to show you this week, or over the next few sessions, how to manage your activity to become more effective, more productive, and give you more time back to do the things that you then want to do.

So without further ado, let’s jump in to session one.

I will see you there.