Why You Should Never Try To Manage Every Second Of Your Day

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Don't try to manage every second of the day. It is true. There are some wildly successful management consultants who pride themselves in scheduling and five minute increments. And they're wildly successful and have tons of people working for them and they make 10s of millions of dollars a year. And that works for them. Okay, but I don't think that's gonna work for you.

I know it's not gonna work for me if it worked for you, you'd be doing it by now. To me, this is advice similar to dieting advice that tells people well just weigh every single thing you're going to eat and calculate the number of calories and then make sure you eat no more than 2000 calories per day. perfectly good advice. If you do it, the problem is no one can actually measure the weight of all their food and calculate the calories on a daily basis after about a month People give up. And that's my problem with this whole idea of micromanaging your entire day in five minute increments. It just doesn't work.

For most people. It's too constrictive. Again, there are exceptions. As I mentioned, there are some professions where there exceptions the legal field, for example, where there's tremendous pressure on attorneys to bill at least 2000 hours a year. And typically the measure of, of billing is six minute increments. So they do account for themselves.

But that's not how most people like operates. I know it's not how I like to operate. And if you talk to most corporate attorneys, most of them will tell you, you really enjoy their life. They enjoy the paycheck, but they don't really enjoy having to account for every second of the day. And that's why I don't think it's a sustainable solution. For Most people again I get back to try to carve out your most productive hours to do the things that are the most productive do that and your other time you this will take care of itself.

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