Following up on our conversation about time management, I want to share an interesting interview with Yervant Zorian — one of the leaders of the CAD industry:
“There are clearly always many more things to do than time allows. So if you have two or three times more to do than you have the hours to do them in, the issue is about prioritizing. About deciding not which things to do first, but which things will get done at all and which things unfortunately will not get done, and that is actually what time management is about. It’s not only about which hour to do which task, but which task I will do at all. Realistically, we all need to learn to choose the right tasks, and learn to drop the others.”
“Obviously, there is always more you could do than time allows. So if you need to do two or three times more things than you have time for, then the whole question is priorities. You need to decide not which tasks to do first, but which tasks will get done, and which things, unfortunately, will not get done at all. That is what time management really is. It’s not only about what hour I’ll do a task, but whether I’ll do it at all. Indeed, all of us need to learn to choose the right tasks, and learn to drop the rest.”
http://www.dac.com/45th/DACEzineDecember2007-PeggyArticle.html