Time is fixed and elastic – sometimes it flies by, sometimes it drags along very slowly and it other times it seems motionless and endless.

The question is always what are you swapping your time for?  What experiences, achievements, rewards, pleasures, learning do you want in your life?

1.     If you feel your reward:time investment ration is low, then keep a TimeLog of what you do every 15 minutes for a few days or a week.

2.     Look at your list and analyse where your time is curently going using criteria such as -

• my priorities/other peoples priorities
• satisfying/not satisfying
• moving towards my goals/not moving me towards my goals
• something I have to do/something others could do

3.     List the things that are important to you and so how you would like to be spending your time - (because why would you be wanting to spend precious time on unimportant things?)

4.     Reviewing your TimeLog again, decide -

• what doesn’t need to be done
• what you will carry on doing
• what somebody else should be doing

5.     Make an Action Plan to make better use of your time based on what you’ve learned from this review.