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How busy are you? Most of us complain about how busy we are. No time to do anything - not even enough to do what we have to. There are jobs to do at work and at home. And have you ever tried bringing up four children and then have time for anything? How can I be less busy and how can I find time for anything spiritual anyway?

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Taken from the book 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People this list represents what scientists have discovered about successful people.

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I’m sure we could all relate stories about stuff we have spent hours doing which turned out to be a complete waste of time. Wasting time has to be one of the biggest problems in anyone’s life. The problem is that too many of us have no idea what is important and so we waste time on what other people think is important.

Remember also that just because something is urgent doesn’t mean it is important. This is a big mistake that we all make from time to time. We assume that a sense of urgency means that something must be important.

Throughout today ask yourself the question of everything you do: Is this important?

Ask it about everything you do. Ask it about the things that are urgent as well as the things that are unimportant.

It will be tough to decide what is important but I will provide more help on this in my next post. For now though simply use your intuition to decide.

It seems to me that we spend a great deal of our lives fighting against time. We see time as the enemy - something we must fight against if we are ever to succeed. When we are young we can’t wait to get older so we can be more independant and be taken seriously and then when we get older we just want to be young again.

However all this struggle is counter productive. Struggling against time won’t change it. In fact it’s often said (and it’s true) that time is the one thing we can’t change about life. No one can make you extra time but you can use time more effectively. You can make more money, more friends, more opportunities but you can’t make more time. The sooner we understand the futility of fighting time the sooner we can start benefitting from it.

Time can be a great tool for the person who is willing to work with it rather than against it. Making the best of the time you have is an excellent approach to life. We work with time when we take a pro-active approach to it. Rather than struggling to stop it passing we should make plans to work with it. Set goals that are time linked; make use of the time you have (no matter how small it may seem) to better yourself; find time to have some fun and build relationships.

Make time your friend not your enemy.