Time Management and Your Self-Care

No time for exercise?  If so it is time to practice some time management techniques. Before you can practice time management you need to understand how it impacts your life. Only then will you be able to “seize the day” and have time at your mercy and not the other way around.  This will allow you plenty of time in your week so you can exercise.

Quite simply, time management is a method of organizing your time so that you can progress in life and not spin your wheels when it comes to getting things done. Each decision that you make when you practice time management is useful, constructive and helps you set aside those needed minutes for exercise and shopping for those things that make you healthy.

If you feel like you are slipping backwards in life or like you are at the mercy of events then you are not practicing time management.  You are practicing crisis management and simply getting through each day. This is exactly the type of stressful living that packs the pounds on your tummy and creates unhealthy nervous systems and wacky minds.

If you are not good at time management you can stay stuck in the past for months. Your priorities slide. You can even forget important things like having lunch or doctor’s appointments. You put every panicky obligation before your own concerns and the result is stress that does not allow a single minute for exercise.  People living like this also end up running out for junk food to eat at the last minute because they are never planning their meals.

Many time management experts compare the art of time management to putting together a picture puzzle. If you put the pieces together wrong you will end up with the wrong picture. You will be stressed and overwhelmed because your life is not working.  You will feel like you are at the mercy of others or like you are always working towards goals that have nothing to do with what you really want in life.  You are in full catastrophe management, spending your time fixing problem after problem in an effort to cope with life. You should be living life and not just coping with it.

Keep in mind too that practicing time management is not about being “perfect.”   It is about making your life more manageable so you can see your exercise routine as something to look forward to rather than as another obligation you have no time for and do not want to attend.