Mind Management, not Time Management

High productivity, workplace efficiency and profitability are all products of an excellent combination of mind management plus time management. High-fliers with sound professional reputations, who have built an efficient team to achieve the company’s mission and vision, have mastered and implemented mind management (not just time management).

So, mind management becomes that antidote that cushions life’s pressures and the burden of work stress, allowing us the freedom to choose, plan, prioritise and execute organizational promises.

Why does mind management matter?

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Mind management is the act of organizing, controlling and coordinating the activities of your mind to manage your emotions, perceptions and resources within your reach to achieve the desired goal.

Managing your mind requires understanding, meditation and caution. The human mind is a complicated machine and represents the totality of your conditions, learning and experiences in life.

Managing your mind helps you to reboot your cognitive system and see everything from a different perspective. Life is filled with good and bad things, so it’s vital to learn how to control our mind to manage all aspects. Without mind management, handling our passions, ego, anger, indolence, unrest and external interests becomes a battle, especially in a constantly changing world.

Living a healthy and peaceful life tends to be difficult without proper mind management which also promotes excellent time management. This is especially true with our modern hectic schedules, workplace burdens and stress.

John Milton says “The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.” This is true for project managers and leaders who understand how to improve workplace efficiency. They know the 9 simple things to consider in order to boost workplace efficiency. They will go the extra mile to pen down project task specifics, split bigger tasks, set priorities, set timeboxes, get rid of distractions and enhance their personal habits.

Manage your mind, manage your time

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1. Set goals: The first step to achieving any goal is to know where you are going. Make your ambitions clear and stimulate your mind to work out a way for you. Make this easier by defining where you want to be in the future. Get rid of every distraction that may hinder great time management, because the clearer your plans, the easier it is to achieve your targets.
2. Meditate: Connect with your inner self. Meditation is the act of controlling your mind and navigating the thoughts that find their way into the window of your mind.
3. Know your thoughts: By navigating your mind, you can figure out the thoughts occupying it. You will also be able to figure out your fears. Note that these fears may be born of previous experiences. Understanding precedes victory. Once you overcome your fears, you let them go. Then, you have your mind made up for achieve success.
4. Bring your thoughts into being: You may have heard that our thoughts become things. Affirmations play a crucial role in becoming successful. Positive affirmations can help to instill positivity, no matter the negative vibes that may harangue you. Fill your mind with and speak out positive emotions and watch how it will transform your productivity.

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Boost mind management & time management

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1. Visualization is the act of imagining yourself doing your job or any other task successfully. This brings to bear the seven mental states. If you use it as meditation, it can unearth lots of benefits while strengthening your creative thinking.
2. Affirmations are positive statements you release into your subconscious mind to make it work for you. Personalize these by using personal pronouns.
3. Automatic writing involves writing your thoughts, ideas, feelings and words as they come.
4. Automatic cards are little flashcards you can carry with you all day to enable you to read them out, especially when need a boost of positivity.
5. Emotional self-management is the study of how to make yourself happy by controlling your emotions. This will help you adjust when you realize you are sad or have a bout of the blues.
6. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) are energy techniques that combine pressure points, color and visualization to alleviate emotional distress.

Mind management, not time management, is the fulcrum of high performance and productivity. The state of your mind at work or in your business is everything. An employee in a terrible state of mind, perhaps arising from a stressful relationship, is probably not going to be on task, efficient and meeting deadlines.

Mind management entails putting aside your personal circumstances to still be able to concentrate on the work at hand. It’s not about ignoring your other personal stresses, but rather having trained your mind management to the extent that you can still work productively, even in challenging contexts.

Be mindful of your thoughts

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How does your state of mind or thoughts impact your business or workplace experience? Are you aware of your thoughts each day? The key is to stop looking to external factors, including market conditions, inadequate resources and technological issues that ruin your daily experience at work. Rather, reflect on the thoughts occupying your mind. Realizing your thoughts may offer you insight into how to solve the root cause of those bad vibes.

It’s normal to have unsatisfactory experiences. But the greatest undoing is in not being aware of the causes of your situation. When you’re unaware of what’s causing your feelings, the frustration can be overwhelming and trigger more frustration, creating an endless doom spiral.

Stop everything and move out of your environment to reflect. While reflecting, focus your energy and understanding on your thoughts, especially how you feel and what may have triggered your feelings.

Choose to change your thoughts

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Remember that you have a choice. Do not think that you cannot change the situation. The situations are not just the way they are. Something triggered it. You must first recognize that you have the power to change the situation. Your situation will change if you focus on changing your thinking patterns and thoughts. Your situation will improve if you concentrate on separating yourself from every negative thought and welcome every positive vibe.

What can you control?

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Having understood your mental state and thoughts and why you feel that way, consider ways of resolving the cause of your negative state of mind. If you have issues with someone, consider settling those frustrations. Make an effort and, where possible, admit your mistakes. That simple act might just have a tremendous impact on your state of mind and performance.

Focus on things within your reach and let go of what you cannot control. If you’ve made efforts towards settling, free yourself from every entanglement. Accept things as they are and work on becoming happy. Remember that positive thoughts create positive feelings. And positive feelings go a long way in releasing inner energy and a drive for managing current and future projects. The good news is that a positive attitude is infectious and will trickle down to anyone around you. When you have adopted a positive attitude, you will feel in charge and in control of your situation. This will boost your mind’s energy necessary for creativity and productivity, and of course, better time management!

Focus on mind management

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While attempting to change your state of mind and start positive thoughts, guard against overthinking and excessive analysis because it could also trigger emotional paralysis which could drain your mental energy.

Use your creative energy to focus on what you can achieve and work towards those objectives. Talk to someone, an expert, a colleague you trust or a friend. Discuss your situation, your thoughts and feelings and how you can become better. Effective time management can certainly help you improve your performance. But mind management is that catch-all technique you need to take full control of your time to plan, reprioritize execute and achieve your project goals.

Timetrack for success

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This is true for project managers who have yet to master the secrets of tracking projects. They are the leaders that the US economist, Peter Drucker, said will be unable to track projects because they will be unable to measure them.

Project evaluation is key to high performance. Leaders and managers who have applied their insightful thinking to work in their creative process understand how to build great teams, get rid of busy calendars, plan in detail, execute their plans and boost creative output.

In their creative pursuits, they use creative sweet spots to ideate valuable concepts for future projects. They understand how to use minimum creative doses to save time, guard against awkward planning and track projects’ progress to improve performance.

They are the managers who understand the beauty of tracking employee performance and time management with TimeTrack, the efficient time tracking software for businesses and individuals.

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