Dynamic Time Management — Top 10 Ways to Put More Time into Your Life
By: Ernie Zelinski

If you want to decrease your overall stress levels and increase your spare time, you must forget what all the efficiency and time-management experts say about time management and what you should do to be more productive. The problem with classic time-management techniques is that you still end up working ten or twelve hours a day, possibly being a little more productive, but still feeling burnt out and with not much leisure time.

Instead, adopt the following ten time-management insights from various people that offer both inspiration and a lot of wisdom for creating more leisure time in your life:

• If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.
— John Gage

• Remember that nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
— Arthur Balfour

• When you are doing something difficult, tedious, or extremely time-consuming, ask yourself what would happen if you didn't do it. If the answer is nothing, or next to nothing, stop doing it.
— From Real Success Without a Real Job

• One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem busily employed on things that are already done.
— John Kennett Galbraith

• If you're already in a hole, it's no use to continue digging.
— Roy W. Walters

• Never do today what you can do as well tomorrow; because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
— Aaron Burr

• The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
— Sydney J. Harris

• Choose one of these three ways to handle a task fast:
1. Do it yourself.
2. Hire an expert to handle it for you.
3. Decide that it isn't worth doing and strike it off your to-do list.
— From Real Success Without a Real Job

• Don't overdo things that shouldn't be done in the first place.
— Unknown wise person

• Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
— Robert Byrne

• Learn to distinguish between these three:
1. Some things need doing better than you or anyone has ever done them before.
2. Some just need doing to get by.
3. Some are not necessary; they don't need doing and are best left to the misfits of this world to pursue.
— From Real Success Without a Real Job

The moral of the above time-management wisdom is straightforward: You can experience more leisure time and a full, relaxed, satisfying, and happy life today instead of fifteen or twenty years down the road. Tens of millions of people in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and many other countries have such a life.

Contrary to popular belief, however, a lifestyle with plenty of free time is not based on being a multi-millionaire. A full, relaxed, satisfying, and happy life is achieved by simply choosing it even though the vast majority of Americans don't.

Above all, forget about classic time-management techniques — clearly, they don’t work.

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Ernie J. Zelinski is a leading authority on retirement and solo-entrepreneurship. Ernie is the author of Real Success Without a Real Job, How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free (over 57,000 copies sold), and The Joy of Not Working(over 200,000 copies sold). Download a free chapter from Ernie’s recent book Real Success Without a Real Job at Downloadable Free Ebooks Check out Ernie's
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