{"id":925,"date":"2012-04-24T05:32:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T09:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:55:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T19:55:01","slug":"are-you-wasting-your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/are-you-wasting-your-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you wasting your time?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>or master your time and master your life.” ~ Alan Lakein<\/em><\/p>\n

The quote above is an interesting one.\u00a0 During a job search or any time for that matter, it is easy to find yourself wondering if you are wasting your time.\u00a0 Or at least it is for me.<\/p>\n

During the last two weeks many meetings and events have fallen on the same day and within in the same week.\u00a0 In talking with clients, friends and others I am not the only person feeling very busy and with this challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I also found myself feeling overwhelmed and wondering if all of these activities were a good use of my time or if I was wasting my time (and therefore my life).\u00a0 At one event, the sessions covered some great information including the new redesign of Google+<\/a> and how to use the features, the growing list of bells and whistles LinkedIn offers within its Talent Pipeline, and just how the interface between PayScale and LinkedIn <\/a>will allow LinkedIn users to automatically see a salary report based on the current job title within their LinkedIn profile.\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong all of the presenters were good, the information interesting and I could see how most of it might be helpful.\u00a0 However as helpful as it could be, most of it I could not apply to the goals in front of me or the things I need to be doing to achieve my goals in the next 90 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I find I need to master how I spend my time to help me achieve the goals most important to me and when I don\u2019t do that I do feel as if I am wasting my time or at least using my time in an ineffective manner.\u00a0 The result of this feeling for me is frustration and a concern about achieving my goals.\u00a0 I often hear that frustrtation from my clients too.<\/p>\n

So I discussed this with a mentor and one of my coaches.\u00a0 I got some ideas and some advice that\u00a0should help me\u00a0over the next several busy weeks.\u00a0 If you have ideas or advice I would love to hear from you too.<\/p>\n

How do you avoid wasting your time?<\/p>\n

Here are three tips I received:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. Create a solid plan to achieve your goals, then\u00a0say ‘no’ to anything that does not move you forward toward your\u00a0goal.<\/li>\n
  2. When attending a meeting or conference align all activities with the goal at hand.<\/li>\n
  3. Do 3 things each day that will move you closer to your goal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Funny thing is – I know all of these tips.\u00a0 The issue – I forgot to practice them.<\/p>\n

    Do you have a tip or a suggestion you use to avoid wasting your time?\u00a0 Post it below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      “Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 or master your time and master your life.” ~ Alan Lakein The quote above is an interesting one.\u00a0 During a job search or any time for that matter, it is easy to find yourself wondering if you are wasting your time.\u00a0 Or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,7],"tags":[142,5,67],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-tips","category-career-management","category-job-search-focus","tag-career-management","tag-focus","tag-time-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}