Time Management promises control over time.
But why sometimes (and unfortunately more often than we would like) we have the perception that they do not work and we loose control ?
22. Time is finite in any timescale: from a day to
the whole life
Time is a good unique, running away
regardless if we use it well or just waste it
Every activity we do (even if we consider
them separated, as work and private life) has
the usage of our time in common
23. So, every activity we do is interdependent,
since they insist on the same (limited)
resource:
our time
24. Second reason for failure:
not applying TM to all aspects of our life
26. The best way to explain priorities is to read a
story
Up to you then to derive the third reason for
failure
27. The story of a professor
and a very special can of jam
28. A professor was standing in front of his students.
He took a very big empty can of jam and started to
fill it with stones of 3 cm.
Once done, he asked if the can was full.
The students responded: yes!
29. Then the professor took a box full of bins and
poured them in the can, shaking it to allow the bins
to fill the holes.
Again he asked if the can was full.
The students responded: this time... definitely yes!
30. The professor then took a box of sand and poured it
into the can.
The sand filled every remaining hole, covering
everything up to the top.
Again he asked if the can was full.
The students responded: yes, without any doubt!
31. At that point the professor took a bottle of beer and
poured its content in the can, wetting the sand.
The students began to laugh.
32. When they stopped, the professor said:
“You need to understand that the can is your life.
The stones are the really important things: the
things that if everything else will be lost, your life will
still be full.
The bins are the other things which are important to
you.
The sand is all the rest, the little things.”
33. “If you fill the can with the sand first,
there will be no space for the more important
things”
36. A student asked what the beer meant in the story.
The Professor responded:
“I’m glad that someone asked:
The beer is ‘a Smile’
37. “It is to demonstrate that
regardless how full your life is
there is always space
for a Smile.”
38. THANK YOU!
More about me:
LinkedIn Profile: Massimo Cardaci [English]
Volunteer activities:
Handicap: www.orsaminore.org [English/Italian]
Ethical Economy: www.edc-consulting.org [Italian]
Time Management: www.time-management.it [Italian]
Some Publications: www.lulu.com/spotlight/maxcardaci
Book on Time Management: “Would you change 25 minutes?” [Italian]
Books on History of Science: “Spots on the Sun? Are you joking, right?” [Italian]