How many of you have suffered inconveniences related to time?
Well, in my case I like to be punctual and feel frustrated when I don't make it to a place on time. Another issue for me is, not having enough time to finish tasks. I sometimes feel I have so much on my plate, and even when I try my best organizing the important first, the urgent takes over. That is what I can say on my side. Now, in general, I really dislike it when meeting don't start on time. That, for me, is very disrespectful. Having to wait in line at the bank is also another waste of time, when we can use online banking. Time is so precious and every minute counts. Unfortunately, not only delays or long lines take away time, also a surprise visit, an unexpected call, or someone who needs your help in the last minute.Listen to the following radio show and pay attention to the advice given by the time management guru Richard. Which situation do you relate to? What advice would you give the callers?
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Time is money. So for all of us is very important to use our time correctly.
ReplyDeleteIn fact in our life style time is the less we have. Everybody is rush.
In this audio I think I relate with all the situations somehow. But for me is more familiar the case of Judy. My wife ask me to help her to find things she can't find, and I'm not good looking for things that I even don't know.
I would give the following advices to the callers.
Jade from Chicago: Don't answer her!!!
Nick from Saint Louis: Call your friend one hour before your meeting. Remember him you don't have enough time and ask him directly to be on time always, if he isn't, he pay the check.
Judy from Iowa: Be patience, he is your husband. Help him it is your duty.
Wendy form Ohio: Little did I know, but you probably have too much cloths. Throw away all the clothes you don't use anymore. So you will have more space in your closet.
Sue from Minneapolis: Thats very common for all of us. When the cashier is busy you can move to the next one.
In all the cases above, the main idea is to make your time more efficient somehow.
You have to improve and do somethings to take advantage of your time.
So use it wisely.
I feel identify with Jade from Chicago.
ReplyDeleteI have two friends with the same attitude. The first one call me when she felt badly accordingly of troubles in her work, for that reason I always pick up her calls.
In the case of my other friend, she always begin the conversation by what’s up. She love to write a lot. In my case, I always try to be specific or direct, but sometimes she make me feel lost, because when I check the phone again, I have a lot of message or her pending of been read.
The same case of the what´s up apply for me at the work, they even ask you, if you want to participate they only include you. But in many cases at the end of the day, you have a lot of message pending to be read and when you put a day, you realized that no one concerned to your management.
Related to the radio program, here I list my advice to them:
•Jade from Chicago: Tell your friend that you are in a kind of meeting and is impossible to you to attend her call, or don´t answer but send immediately a message that you can answer in that moment.
•Nick from Saint Louis: Sen to your friend a meeting message with a reminder included.
•Judy for Iowa: If you are really busy, tell to your husband that is impossible to you to help him in that moment but if he can wait you can help him.
•Wendy for Ohio: Reorganize your closet is a good advice, but better if you can renovate it.
•Sue from Minneapolis: Always when you are waiting in a line you don’t have another choice so breathe deeply and take patience.
I think you are a reliable person, that's why your friends call to tell you everything!
DeleteI think the management of the time is very important because there is only one life and we have to live it advantaging the most that we can.
ReplyDeleteHere my advices:
• Jade from Chicago: In my opinion, we always have to be kind, so Jade has to be honest with her friend and tell her, that in the future occasions, she only will speak with her 5 minutes, because she doesn´t like to speak more than thise time.
• Nick from St. Louis: My advice for Nick is to put the appointment 15 minutes earlier if he knows that his friends are unpunctual.
• Judy from Iowa: The case of Judy is similar than mine. My husband Vini always is calling me to ask for help and advises for example when he go to the supermarket, he take pictures of everything! from every product, and every brands of each product that he has to bring to home. In one occasion I asked him for some “tostadas” and he sent to me like 5 pictures only for choosing the “tostadas”, he always send pictures from all the kind of products in the supermarket and after the picture is the phone call asking me which one can he choose?, he always call me more than 5 times when he go to the supermarket. My advice to Judy is that she has to let him resolve his problems and let him decide and be responsible.
• Wendy from Ohio: That is the same problem that I have, but I´m not agree with the guru Richard, because I can´t imagine to use only the 5 favorites outfits.
• Sue from Minneapolis: My advice for her is, going to the supermarket in a different time or choose another supermarket less crowded.
I like this topic pretty much, everyday we have the challenge to do all things that we planned.
ReplyDeleteJADE from Chicago: This is a common situation, I know some people that talk a lot when they call you, but I don´t have problem to say them that I don´t have time to talk at that moment, you have to respect the time of other people, but it´s funny, I talk a lot by phone and I have a colleague that doesn't like to talk a lot and I know when is time to say bye and finish the call with him.
ADVICE from Jade, I you don´t have to talk at that moment, tell her without shame that you are busy and you can call her later or don´t answer the call and send a message as "I can´t talk know" or "Can I call you later?".
NICK from St. Louis: I´m not very punctual person with my friends, but depends, my University friends are not very punctual and I don´t have problems with them, so 30 minutes after is OK. On the other hand, I have another friend named Freddy that are very punctual and with him I´m very punctual. In my opinion, depends of the friends and occasion, if anyone is going to bother, you better be punctual.
ADVICE for Nick, send reminders before the meeting to the chat group.
JUDY from Iowa: I´m not related with the Judy´s case.
ADVICE for Judy: It´s clear that his husband has a bad habit in to lose things. I recommended you to help your husband to avoid losing things, looking places to keep the things that he has been losing.
WENDY from Columbus: I think that men don´t have this problem, we are very practical.
ADVICE for Wendy, take some time one day before to choose your clothes that your are going to wear the next day.
SUE from Minneapolis: I think that in Guatemala we don´t have this problem. Sometimes, the problem here is that cashiers are slow.
ADVICE for Sue, I recommended to ask the cashier in a kindly manner "how much longer do you need?" to put pressure to cashier.
We have a lot of time bandits, but "time is gold" and we can not recovery the lost time, we need to search solutions to maximize our daily time.