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Hey everyone, in this episode I want to talk about a concept of spontaneity versus time management, because I’ve heard before from people that they sometimes think that if you are using time management, if you’re kind of trying to manage your time, making plans and things of that nature, then you’re hurting your spontaneity.
Sometimes spontaneous things happen, and if you have that plan and you focus on time management, then it keeps you from focusing on those things that can come, the spontaneous, that could help move you forward.
I understand why they think that but that’s, that’s actually a misnomer about time management. I kind of want to explain that a little bit.
The main thing about time management is really that you’re trying to make sure you know what’s important and then do what’s important, like we talked a couple episodes ago, and the thing about that is, is that you need to first know what’s important and take the time to know what your goals and stuff are and then plan and prioritize your time based on those goals. What happens is if we don’t plan and prioritize, then we sometimes don’t know what’s important when the spontaneous comes.
You see, sometimes people see time management as something that’s super rigid, that you have to do it, this is your plan, you have to stick to it exactly, but that’s not the way it’s meant to be, or it doesn’t have to be or shouldn’t be. You don’t have to be that way when it comes to your schedule.
The thing about time management is that you’re prioritizing, and you know what’s important, and you have your plan of how you plan your day. But the thing is, your plan’s not set in stone. When the spontaneous comes, what happens is we say, the spontaneous comes, well, often that’s the urgent things. People come to us with problems.
And if we just focus on the urgent things, we’re not gonna be productive, unless those urgent things happen to be important. But we can’t know that they’re important unless we’ve taken the time to look at the big picture and prioritize what’s important. Because when the spontaneous comes, whatever it may be, we can look at it and say, “Hey, is this important? Oh, it is. Let me change my schedule or plan for the day to fit it in because that’s what’s most important.”
Does that make sense? Time management doesn’t kill spontaneity. It just helps us use the spontaneous events better because when we plan, then we can know if it’s important or not and use it or not.
I hope that helps. I know this is kind of a short episode, but I hope that kind of helps clarify between the two and how time management and planning can actually help us be spontaneous better.
