The Top 10 Time Management Problems
Jim Erwin, one of the few people to make it to the moon and back said that his trip to the moon left him radically changed, he said the biggest single event in his trip to the moon was when circling the moon for the first time he saw the earth rise above the moon’s horizon, a world so beautiful and so meaningful to him was for the first time so small that he was able to blot it out from his vision by covering it completely with his thumb nail.
He learnt in that one moment the principle of perspective. On his return to earth he devoted the remaining days of his life to humanity and right up to the day of his death was working to ensure a better life for us all.
Many of us need to learn that same principle because when all around us is falling about we need a different perspective to shed a new light on our situation and show us a way forward. When our plans go unexpectedly badly and a critical part of our main project is going to be late, we need the perspective from larger frame of reference, in order to get us to see it is not the end of the world. The project is in trouble but we as individuals are ok. The proposal may have been turned down but we are not a failure. Much of the stress and pressure we experience in our lives today can be released by the principle of perspective. Talk to the senior team at Oxfam; their daily “emergency briefings” are a little different to yours and mine. Yet in their daily executive meeting they really are discussing the biggest disasters occurring on our planet that day. The emergencies they discuss, many of which are never heard about by the general public involve hundred and thousands of people of the true edge of existence, countries like the Sudan where the average life expectancy is 33 years, places like South Africa where 25% of people are HIV positive and there is not a GP to see them at all not like us who “only” have to wait three days. Ask a senior manager at Oxfam how they are personally and they will say “fine.” In relative terms our problems and stress points are not often in the same league…
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