Friday's BOLD LAW...." All work expands to fill the time allowed"

If it is true that all work expands to fill the time allowed, who determines the time allowed? And, if we shrink the time allowed, can we then reduce the amount of work to get the same results? What we’re really talking about here is time management, isn’t it?

But does ‘time management’ really exist? Is there any way anyone of us can exert control and direction over time; or does the clock tick away the seconds to minutes… to weeks and months?

Would we be unreasonable to suggest that time management really is self-management? Since we all have 168 hours in a week it’s not about time is it? It’s how you go about managing yourself through time.

Now consider how time seems to “fly by” when you’re doing a favorite activity or when you’re on vacation or doing something special with your favorite person. Have you ever been so wrapped up in a book or movie that hours slip by without you ever noticing?

Time distorts – or more precisely – our perception of time distorts based on the activity we are doing. My guess is that a one-hour root canal feels considerably longer than a one-hour happy hour with friends you haven’t see for a while.

Since you ultimately control the amount of time you will allow for the work; how can you choose to think differently about the work, so it more closely resembles happy hour rather than root canal?

Sixty seconds makes one minute, and sixty minutes makes one hour. Always has and always will. And since we cannot control that, but we can control the meaning we give to that time – the opportunity is yours to think differently about the work. Change your view of the time block and think in terms that serve you and ‘speed time up’. Be creative. Use your mind to control how you flow though time.

“It is the busiest man who has time to spare.” ~ C. Northcote Parkinson (Originator of Parkinson’s Law upon which this BOLD Law is based)

Contributed by KCN leader Don Aldrich & KW MAPS NLP Coach George Gillas