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Time in the 21st Century Business Week magazine recently published a series of short articles under the general title, "21 Ideas for the 21st Century." Idea # 5 is called, "The Clocks Ahead Will Have Our Own Faces." The columnist Diane Brady makes the point that the world in the 2lst Century is going to be "24 by 7," every week of the year. This means that we no longer will be run by the sun. People will work hours (perhaps even more), but they will be at their own choosing. Brady cites as an example the Ritz Carlton in Kuala Lumpur which rents hotel rooms out for 24 hours, and it doesn't matter which 24 hours, instead of 12 noon to 12 noon. If you arrive at midnight, you get to keep your room until midnight the following night. There are examples of where this concept already happens and actually has been happening for quite a while. On the North Shore of Alaska in the huge Prudhoe Bay oil fields, workers are on for 12 hour shifts, and then off for 12 hours. It doesn't matter which 12 hours it is, because in the winter time, it's always dark, and in the summer it's always light. In the fall and spring, it's half and half. The same is true on submarines. It's different, and people do adjust. The key to effective handling of these types of schedules is to realize that you have to adjust to the new schedule, and not just add to one's already full schedule. If you get up in the middle of the night to handle the opening of a stock exchange someplace on the planet, that can't mean that you'll be available for every stock exchange opening. If you do that, all you are doing is adding more, rather than being flexible in when you do your work. We come back to the necessity of knowing what you are doing. The Time Manager philosophy encourages people to define Key Areas to help determine parameters for effective living. Whether you achieve results for a Key Area at three in the morning or at 12 noon, doesn't really matter, as long as you don't attempt to achieve results in all your Key Areas at all times. Flexibility in our work schedules, doesn't mean spending
more hours to do more, but rather deciding what is critical, finding balance
in one's life, and then performing those tasks at the most appropriate
time. That's being a true Time Manager, and it's also taking advantage
of global interconnectedness!
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