”I quit time management.”

Here’s a revelation about time management: it cannot be mastered.

Think about TM as maintaining a consistent and disciplined approach to addressing your priorities, and aligning them against your goals.

Forget managing a To Do list. Instead, focus your work on Must Do list…and constantly edit it.

Also, you’ll get a huge boost to your newfound TM strategy if you anticipate the time robbers and black holes that lurk out there. Don’t let them win.

At 6pm tonight – after the dust settles from the day – preview the next few weeks of your calendar and build your Must Do list.

Once you’ve edited your To Do list over to a Must Do list, compare what’s listed to your goals: quota, skill, and account goals for the quarter.

Is everything in sync?

Since you know how most of your meetings will go, anticipate the tasks you know will require thought and prioritization.

Spend 5 minutes every night on this exercise, and you’ll avoid the trappings and fire drills that always pop up.

Maybe Time Management Philosopher Brad Aeon can help you hone your vision for an effective approach that works for you.

Amongst other enlightening thoughts in his TED Talk, Brad offers this great observation: ”I don’t have time is the biggest lie in the history of mankind.”

You’re right, Brad, we all need to stop saying that line…it’s not helpful.