Time Power Barriers

The Three Mental Barriers to Time Power !

If everyone agrees that excellent time management is a desirable skill,  why is it that so few people can be described as ‘‘well orga- nized, effective, and  efficient’’? Over the years, I have found that many  people have ideas about time  management that are simply not true. But if you believe something to be true, it becomes true for you.  Your  beliefs cause you  to see  yourself and  the  world, and  your  relationship to time  management, in a particular way. If you  have  negative beliefs in any  area, these beliefs will  affect your  thinking and actions, and will eventually become your  real- ity. You are not what  you think  you are,  but what  you think, you are.

Barrier 1:-

Worries About Decreasing Your Naturalness and Spontaneity

This turns  out not to be true at all. Many people hide behind this false  idea  and  use  it as an excuse for not disciplining them- selves  the  way  they  know  they should. The  fact  is that  people who are disorganized are not spontaneous; they are merely con- fused, and  often  frantic. Often they  suffer  a good  deal  of stress. It turns  out that the better organized you are,  the more time and opportunity you have to be truly  relaxed, truly spontaneous, and truly  happy. You have a much  greater internal locus of control. 

Barrier 2: Self-Limiting Beliefs 

The  third  mental barrier to  good  time  management skills  is  a negative self-concept, or what  are  called ‘‘self-limiting beliefs.’’ Many people believe that  they don’t have  the  ability to be good at time  management. They often  believe that it is an inborn part of their  background or heritage. But there is no gene or chromo- some  for poor  time management, or good  time management, for that matter. Nobody  is born with a genetic deficiency in personal organization. Your personal behaviors are very much  under your own control. 

Barrier3: Negative Mental Programming

 The second mental barrier to developing excellent time manage- ment  skills  is negative programming, which is often  picked up from your  parents, but also  from other influential people as you are growing up. If your  parents or others told you that you were a messy person, or that  you  were always late,  or that  you  never finished anything you  started, chances are  that  as an adult, you may  still  be operating unconsciously to obey  these earlier com- mands.