Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 803 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Time Management is a Myth - Ask Gramps

Thank you for joining us for our five days per week, wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 803 of our Trek time for our Philosophy Friday series.  Each Friday we will ponder some of the basic truths and mysteries of life, and how they can impact us in creating our living legacy.  As we continue on this trek called life, sometimes we have questions about life, so our Friday trek is a time where we can ‘Ask Gramps.’   Gramps will answer questions that you would like to ask your dad or granddad, but for whatever reason, this is not possible.  No matter how old you are, I know that all of us would like the opportunity to ask dad or gramps questions about life in many areas.  We will address areas such as finances, relationships, health/fitness, business/work, home repairs/renovations, seasons of life, spiritual/Biblical questions, and any others areas that come our way.  As your fellow sojourner and mentor on this trek that we call life, it is my goal to provide you with practical wisdom and advice about any area of life. It is crucial that I receive a constant flow of questions so please submit your questions to guthrie@wisdom-trek.com, and I will answer your questions on our Friday podcast.

We are broadcasting from our studio at ‘The Big House’ in Marietta, Ohio.   For most of us, life is hectic, and we all seem to have much more to do than the time to do it in.  Since we all have 24 hours in a day, 168 hours in a week, why it is that some people seem to get so much more accomplished in a day or week than other people do?  So the question for today is:

Hey Gramps, “Why does it appear that you are able to manage your time more effectively and efficiently than most people, how can I improve the management of my time ?”
Time Management is a Myth
You probably have heard about time management since you were young. You had to learn how to integrate school, homework, playtime, and extracurricular activities. Then as you grew older, you had to start learning how to integrate work with studies and relationships. As you continued on as an adult, it was about integrating all of the tasks at work with all of the tasks at home.

Time management is directly linked to your work-life balance, or as I like to refer to it as work-life integration, and thus it’s directly linked to your stress, health, happiness, and productivity. How you manage your time proportionally influences how you manage your life.

This means time management is more than just managing the hours on the clock.  None of us can slow down, speed up, or change the amount of time that we have in our day.  There are 24 hours in a day. You can’t change that.  So how do you manage time if you have no control over it?

You don’t. Time management is a myth.     It’s all about decision or choice management. Or as Ecclesiastes 3:1 For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.

Do you ever wonder why it feels like some people have more time than others? Why do some people achieve so much more than their peers?

Every person only has 24 hours, but there are some who have learned how to make better decisions or choices on how to use that time. These individuals don’t manage their hours—they manage themselves.

To use an illustration that may be useful I will I would like you to think of yourself as a tree.   This tree is made up of four quadrants.   We will relate this to what President Eisenhower is credited with creating and used when he was both a general and the President.  It is referred to as:
1.   The Eisenhower Decision Matrix