Do More of What With Less Time?

Stephen Covey asked the question: When people claim to do more with less time, what do they do more of? More of the same?

I am a time management coach and consultant specializing in teaching people how to do more with less time. My Bank Your Time program helps people gain control over the events that shape their lives. I do have an answer to Dr. Covey’s question.

The first thing I teach my clients is about eliminating the clutter, the 80% of tasks that yield only 20% value.
The second thing I teach them is about dividing their worlds into two parts – things they “have to” do and things they “want to” do. (This set of “have to” tasks is after eliminating the clutter, so they do indeed have to do these tasks!)

The question is: When do people get to do things they want to do? Answer: In their spare time. However, if they are stuck in prison of their own making wherein their “have to” tasks suck up all their time, where is the spare time? When can they do what they “want to” do? Most people have very little time to spare! What a problem!

Here is my solution: If people complete what they “have to” do in less time than expected (through efficiency tactics that I have developed), they can put together the time they save and create spare time for the things they “want to” do.

My concept is that if people only do what they “have to,” they merely exist. Only when they do what they “want to” do people really live. I teach people to stop merely existing and start really living.

In answer to Dr. Covey’s question, I teach people how to do more of what they “have to” in less time so that they can do more of what they “want to.” This is what I mean when I say “Do more in less time.”