SYL Challenge Week 15 - Priorities

A quick and dirty blog this week... 

Challenge this week is to: Conduct a time audit. Look at what you currently have on your to do list, what is in your calendar, what activities you are involved in, commitments you have made. Do these reflect the values you identified in the goals you set? How much of your time is spent ‘above the line’? Think about what might need to go to make room for what you really want in life – to achieve the vision you have set for this year – or what changes can be made to your routines and activities to make room.

It feels like everyday I spend most of my time running around like a mad woman, multi-tasking, organising and trying to cram as much as possible into each day. And most of the time it feels like my time is spent doing things I have to do for the house and things for others, and finding 'my time' gets bumped down the list of priorities. If I spend a rare day doing not much, I feel guilty about it and feel like I will have to make up for it the next day. The more I do, the more I do. 

So, this little exercise really puts things into perspective once again. Using the time management matrix idea by Stephen Covey I have classified areas of my life that I spend time on as 'important or of value' that are both urgent and not urgent, and things that are 'not important', that are also urgent and not urgent. 

Time to start spending much more time above the line me thinks!

Time Management Quadrant

	Urgent	Not Urgent
Important / of Value	·      My health- mentally & physically ·      Exercise ·      Care of and relationship with Emilie ·      Relationship with Michael ·      Relationships with house dwellers ·      Emergencies 1	·      Relationships with parents ·      Relationships with friends ·      Scrap booking & other creative things ·      Computer things (FB, Blog, games) ·      Television ·      Helping at school  2
Not Important	3 ·      Household chores and errands ·      Work ·      Finances	4 ·      Selfish & negative people ·      Other people’s problems