Non-linear time management is a commitment to action in the present moment. It’s looking at a task and choosing NOW or “not now.” If it’s not now, it’s got to be NEVER, or placed in a time capsule that has a spot on the calendar and therefore out of the mind. The mind must remain clear and empty of all future considerations. The old-fashioned time management programs had a huge, burdensome focus on the future. The line of tasks stretched out forever into the future. This resulted in massive, pathological procrastination. Everything got put off in the name of perfectionism. Therefore there wasn’t much astonishing success happening for the world-weary practitioner. But when people go non-linear, new life and energy come in. When they open their emails, they don’t save them for later. They have to deal with them if they open them. All fear comes from picturing the future. Putting things off increases that fear. Only a warrior’s approach will solve this. A warrior takes his sword to the future and to all circumstances that don’t allow him to fully focus.
Whether you own a business or just want to be the best person you can, you may just subject yourself to change. While time may seem like the thing you need the most of, it turns out that isn’t true. We all get the same number of minutes and hours in
This might sound familiar to you, you start each workday with a lengthy list of tasks, there’s a lot to do, but you are confident that every item can be completed. Then something unexpected comes up. Next thing you know, the day is almost over. You work hard at a frantic
Life in the twenty-first century is busy! We have access to unprecedented amounts of information. Technology has blurred the lines between professional life and personal life. Time management programs do not work. Such programs teach a process focused almost entirely on how to plan and exercise control over the amount of time