{"id":2281,"date":"2012-09-23T14:59:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T18:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theorderexpert.com\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2023-08-01T08:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T12:49:25","slug":"time-management-tip-why-a-clock-wont-keep-you-on-schedule-and-what-to-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theorderexpert.com\/time-management-tip-why-a-clock-wont-keep-you-on-schedule-and-what-to-do-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Management Tip: Why A Clock Won\u2019t Keep You On Schedule (and what to do about it)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post on how to manage your time without using a clock<\/a>. Today I thought I\u2019d continue along that vein and \"Clock<\/a>take a somewhat surprising position when it comes to time and time management. That\u2019s right, I\u2019m going to say it: a clock won\u2019t keep you on schedule.<\/p>\n

Huh? Why won\u2019t a clock keep you on schedule? A clock won\u2019t help you keep on schedule\u2026you will.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say you have plans to meet a friend at a cafe at 4pm. You decide you\u2019ll get ready at 3:30pm, leave the house by 3:45pm and meet your friend at the cafe at 4pm. When 3:30 rolls around you start preparing your things. At 3:45 you leave your house. At 4pm you meet your friend at the cafe.<\/p>\n

Sounds straightforward, right? How about we approach the same story from a different angle? You start watching the clock at 3pm. You watch the clock in hopes it will help you keep on schedule, but you ignore the clock at both 3:30 and 3:45. You\u2019re still at home at 4pm.<\/p>\n

My point is this: a clock is a tool that helps you keep track of time, but it is up to you to put a value on time and react to it. Part of keeping to a schedule (and a big part of time management in general) is that of a stimulus and response. That is, at a certain time you\u2019ll take some sort of action. If you don\u2019t set a time, or if you do set a time and do not make a response, you\u2019ll be behind schedule.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a few things to keep in mind the next time you are thinking about leaving time management or scheduling in the hands (sorry, I know it\u2019s a bad pun) of your clock:<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t hold a clock to more than what it does.<\/h2>\n

A clock simply tells time. Leave it at that.<\/p>\n

Set specific times to act.<\/h2>\n

If you are getting ready to travel, prepare something, or meet someone at a certain time, define certain times on the clock for you to act. In the example above, both 3:30 and 3:45 were stimuli or times to act.<\/p>\n

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What will be your response?<\/h2>\n

Now that you\u2019ve set certain times for you to act, what will you do and what actions will you make? When 3:30 rolled around in the above scenario it was time to get ready, at 3:45 it was time to leave the house.<\/p>\n

Respond!<\/h2>\n

If you set a certain time to do something, do it at that time. Don\u2019t ignore the clock. Remember, it\u2019s not about the clock\u2026it\u2019s how you respond to the clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post on how to manage your time without using a clock. Today I thought I\u2019d continue along that vein and take a somewhat surprising position when it comes to time and time management. That\u2019s right, I\u2019m going to say it: a clock won\u2019t keep you on schedule. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[325],"tags":[108,26,16,18,364,110,72],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theorderexpert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theorderexpert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theorderexpert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theorderexpert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theorderexpert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theorderexpert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25257,"href":"https:\/\/www.theorderexpert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions\/25257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theorderexpert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theorderexpert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theorderexpert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theorderexpert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}