Dedication

We dedicate this book to the people who are looking. Many of you are looking
for opportunities, for inspiration, for your own dreams. This book has been
written for you. It is meant not only to help you get where you want to get, but
also for you to help the others around you get on the bright path to success.
After you read this book, you have three possible ways you can take what you
learned. You can keep the knowledge and take no action - nothing will change
in your life. You can also take the knowledge and make a change in your own
life. However, to make a real change in this world, you need to apply what you
learned first and then share the knowledge with the people around you. Help
others make the change you've made in your life. Help them succeed as well.
The true leader creates more leaders along the way to his success. We hope this
book will be one of the parts of the composition of your success. Let's make the
world a better place together. We believe in you, you can do it.
 Content

Acknowledgment 5
Introduction 6
“The Paradox of Our Age” by Dr Bob Moorehead 9
Time is our most valuable commodity 11
Why should you read this book? 13
Breaking down the paradigms 15
Why is that so wrong? 16
Defining rich 16
Slow dance by David Weatherford 18

How much time do you have? - hypothesis 21

Time is relative. 22
Don’t rush your life. 24
I don’t have time for that - The cult of being busy 27
Time is priceless. 27
Why do we still work so hard and so much in the age of information? 28
“Time management is about life management.” 30
Value-priority-task 32
Why can’t you be busy? 33
80/20 Pareto principle 35
Rory Vaden’s Focdeus Funnel 39
Eliminate, automate, delegate, do 39
Respect your needs 41
Time is a choice, again! 43
We don’t need as much time as we thought 45
Social media 47
The power of flow - the presence of mind 50
Get organized 51
Commuting can be exploited 53
 Be careful with “multitasking” 55
Don’t neglect your idle time (get bored from time to time) 56
Nobody actually cares over time... 59
Final word 60
Bonus 61
 Acknowledgment

We would like to thank Mr. Tirumala Rao Kamsu for giving us meaningful tips and
feedback that ultimately helped us walk in the right direction.

We would also like to thank Mr. ​Daniel Skoták​and Mr. Vladimír Bernát for their
invaluable crafting skills that helped us in terms of design of this book.

Lastly, we would like to thank The Real Life Education family, all our followers and
friends without whose passionate support we could not have made this project a reality.
 Introduction

You've been around in this world for quite a while now. Your age makes no
difference. You can be a teenager full of youth and potential, or you can be a
wise and respected old man. Who you are makes no difference. No matter what
you've done yesterday, no matter what you're doing now, time will always find
you. Time never stops and time makes no exceptions. Time sees no differences
among people. We all get the same 24 hours every day, no more, no less. You
can never ask for more, neither can you create more. This is everything you get,
24 hours. What you do with them is completely up to you. You are the master of
your time. You can never get more of it, but you can decide how you're going to
use the limited amount you get every day. It is your choice, not mine, not your
mom's, not your friends nor your teacher's. It is all up to you. You are the only
one who can decide.

The chance of you being born as a human being, not some random rock on
Mars, is said to be about 400 trillion to 1. Let's repeat that again - I'll also write
down all the zeros for you to really understand what I'm saying. The chance of
you being a human in this universe is 400,000,000,000,000 to 1. You have a
much, much, much higher chance that you'll become the richest person in the
world than that you will actually enter this world as a human being. The chance
of you living in a body that can do amazing things, that can create the
unimaginable, is so low, yet so many people completely disregard it. So many
people completely ignore the fact that they have won the ultimate lottery. They
completely ignore the fact that the time they get to spend as humans is probably
the most precious commodity in this universe. Instead of spending their ultra
super precious time (which is an understatement) doing something that would
help them grow or that would create more free time for them in the future
(which is like extra ultra super rare and precious - again, an understatement),
they decide to waste it. They decide to waste it complaining, procrastinating and
wishing. The ultimate commodity is being wasted every day in front of our
eyes! And nobody seems to be doing anything about it!

This is the reason why we decided to create this book. We learned to understand
this, we learned to understand that people waste so much of their time and don't
even realise it. How did we learn this? We see this everywhere around us. Not
only in the people who are close to us, but also in the people we have never
traded a word with before. Everyone does this, everyone wastes some time. This
book is meant to serve not only as an exclamation mark, but also as a guide for
anyone who is willing to learn and understand the magic of time. The unique
skill of time investment, which is one of the major skills of the successful and
one of the worst nightmares of the average. Acquiring this skill takes time and
understanding, but once you get into it, you will see its enormous benefits and
you will understand our concern. You will gain the ultimate skill they don't
teach you in schools, universities and most unfortunately, some people do not
get to learn in their lifetime. We have been taught the skill of “time
management”. The question is, can you actually manage your time? (Hint:
absolutely not.) Wait a minute, if you can't manage your time, what's the point
then? The point is, you can never manage your time, because you can never
manage to get more than the 24 hours. The point is that you need to learn how
to invest your limited time and this is what we dive into in this book.
This book is designed to be primarily informative and brief at the same time.
This means that our book represents something totally different from what you
might have read before. Our goal is not only to focus on proper investment of
your time, but we also don't want to waste your time as we do respect you and
your own freedom. You are always free to choose and we're glad you've chosen
us to help you with following your own path of personal growth. We also highly
suggest you take notes while reading, as you're more likely to recall the
information when you actually write it down. Further, your notes can serve as a
review material for further use.
 “The Paradox of Our Age” by Dr Bob Moorehead

We have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways but narrower
viewpoints; we spend more but have less; we buy more but enjoy it less; we
have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, yet less time; we
have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgement; more
experts, yet more problems; we have more gadgets but less satisfaction; more
medicine, yet less wellness; we take more vitamins but see fewer results. We
drink too much; smoke too much; spend too recklessly; laugh too little; drive
too fast; get too angry quickly; stay up too late; get up too tired; read too
seldom; watch TV too much and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values; we fly in faster
planes to arrive there quicker, to do less and return sooner; we sign more
contracts only to realize fewer profits; we talk too much; love too seldom and
lie too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added
years to life, not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but
have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour. We've conquered
outer space, but not inner space; we've done larger things, but not better things;
we've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul; we've split the atom, but not our
prejudice; we write more, but learn less; plan more, but accomplish less; we
make faster planes, but longer lines; we learned to rush, but not to wait; we have
more weapons, but less peace; higher incomes, but lower morals; more parties,
but less fun; more food, but less appeasement; more acquaintances, but fewer
friends; more effort, but less success. We build more computers to hold more
information, to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication;
drive smaller cars that have bigger problems; build larger factories that produce
less. We've become long on quantity, but short on quality.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, but short
character; steep in profits, but shallow relationships. These are times of world
peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure and less fun; higher postage, but
slower mail; more kinds of food, but less nutrition. These are days of two
incomes, but more divorces; these are times of fancier houses, but broken
homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, cartridge living,
throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies and pills that do
everything from cheer, to prevent, quiet or kill. It is a time when there is much
in the show window and nothing in the stock room. Indeed, these are the times!“

“Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.”

Diogenes, 350 BC

What is time? Time is our biggest asset. It is the only thing we that can be
invested and never comes back. It’s also the only thing we’re investing at all
times, no matter what we do. It doesn’t matter if you do something actively, or
not. Time simply goes on. We can sleep for 8 hours, play computer games for 8
hours or work for 8 hours and it all takes the same eight hours. The question is,
how well you have invested your time…
 Time is our most valuable commodity

Time passes in every moment of our life, every moment of your day and every
moment of your night. Inaction also takes time away from us. Even the time you
take to decide what you are actually going to do can never come back. Every
moment of your life is unique, because it can never be taken back. Time is
limited to us. Time is not limited. We are.

“The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you
can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.”

Benjamin Hoff

We are indeed limited. Limited by the time we have. Each and every one of us
is constantly running out of time. Additionally, there exists no way for us to
know or to even slightly predict how much time we have left on this world. We
can simply never know when it all ends. We all know we are going to die one
day. We are all aware of this. We all know that time flies as we live, as we age
and as we see people come and go.

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its
brevity.”

Jean de La Bruyère
To some degree, everyone understands that life is short. Yet the vast majority of
us does not behave in that way. The way we live our lives is often very
disrespectful to the fact that our time here is limited. We are the biggest time
wasters on this planet. We are the biggest life wasters on this planet. We sell our
time to generate income, to feed our egos and to raise our social status among
the people who do not care about us and more importantly, who we do not care
about.

“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to
love is now.”

Rick Warren

In your life, there are two commodities you can never buy, deep love and time.
Your family, especially your parents, are the only people that will love you
regardless of who you are. Their love for you is unconditional. Your family is
the only group of people you naturally care about so much. The way you treat
the rest is really up to you, your character and your emotional intelligence. You
can’t invest love to become loved. However, you can invest time to spend with
the ones you love. You can invest your time to be with your family. This kind of
investment will usually give you some positive outcome. You can gain a lot of
happiness by sharing your presence with the ones you genuinely love. Remind
yourself very often that your family is there for you and that you should be
grateful for it, especially when you feel down. There is such a small number of
things in life that actually matter. Your mood is contemporary, your family will
share their love with you forever.
 Why should you read this book?

You have a lot of time to invest! A lot of people are obsessed with making the
right stock investments and saving a lot of money, becoming a billionaire or
buying unnecessary goods just because there is a discount. But only a few are
willing to invest their time in learning to become more effective and to live a
better life.

“Time is the most precious commodity you can invest and from the investment,
you can get whatever you want except for time itself.”

The Real Life Education (henceforth TRLE)

Everyone is in search for shortcuts. People are so impatient when it comes to the
learning process - the process of gaining skill and building confidence. This
process is meant to be very slow and detailed, therefore it should not be rushed.
Many people want to be successful, but they want to gain success quickly and
effortlessly. That is unfortunately not going to happen. To begin with, we need
to embrace our minds. And one of the most important things we need to learn
before we can succeed is to invest our time wisely.

People say that time is money. The idea sounds good, but in reality, it is fairly
obsolete. It is an imperfect thesis. It’s rather cliché than the truth.
In reality, if you lose money, you can still gain it in the future. But if you lose
your time, you have lost your time. There is no alternative way to get it back.
Considering the fact that we have no idea about the amount of time we have left,
shouldn't we all strive to invest it well? Shouldn't we all pursue time efficiency?

“The ultimate key to getting the most of your life is to become a successful
TIME INVESTOR”

TRLE

The essential purpose of this book is to make you, the reader, aware of the
reality and help you understand how to invest your time in a more efficient and
potentially more meaningful way. And by the way, we would like to
congratulate you on your first official smart time investment. You have decided
to read our book. This means that you are already practicing your good time
investing! Only that now, you will hopefully learn to understand it a bit better so
that you can use it for your advantage. Let's explore time investing together!
 Breaking down the paradigms

“Stop selling the portion of your life for a paycheck - don’t waste the time of
your life”

TRLE

Why would you sell your time to get paid? What is wrong with the mainstream
corporate world’s time perception?! We do not want to get paid for the amount
of time we spend working for someone else's dream. Do you? That system is so
inefficient and demotivating. I do not want to “work” more hours to get paid
more. This paradigm is very dangerous to every time investor.

I want to do more in less time. I have goals to achieve. Not hours to work. What
does it mean? Should I be happy to work hard for 8 hours a day not caring about
the reason why I have done the things I have done? What kind of mentality is
that?

“Measure results, not time.”

TRLE

One of the biggest misconceptions of this beautiful world is that working more
hours only for the sake of having worked more hours benefits us in any way.
Why are our most productive hours awarded in the same way as the least
productive ones?
“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases,
the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

Haruki Murakami

Why is that so wrong?

Living this kind of life, we are selling our precious and limited time to a
company working for something we might not even agree with. The philosophy
behind this idea is crucial. The mindset behind this is all wrong. Let’s break it
down.

“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is
poor, we've got 24 hours each.”

Christopher Rice

Defining rich

Is the need to work all day to generate income what you call rich? Are you
really rich when you cannot “afford” to take a day off? Are you really rich if
you cannot even dedicate a portion of your time to your children, family and
hobbies whenever you want? Are you really that rich if you have to work for
someone whenever and wherever they tell you?
Exchanging your own time for money is one of the worst time investments you
can make. You don’t need to work 40 hours a week to secure yourself a good
living. The most important thing should be how you want to live your own life.
Maybe you don’t need the money. And the chances are high that you don’t want
to spend 40 hours per week in the office!

In reality, it is your mindset that is holding you back. When something is not
going the way you want to, the first person in which you should be looking for
mistakes is yourself. We all need to start with ourselves first. Start with your
mindset, adjust it and challenge yourself by stepping out of your comfort-zone.
Aim to live your life efficiently. Do not waste your precious time working in the
office all day.

There has never been a better time in the history to work less and have
more free time. It is just about changing the way of perception of time and
money.

“You may delay, but time will not.”

Benjamin Franklin

Do not wait for retirement. You do not know whether you will ever retire and if
you do, how big is the chance that you will not be in the state to explore your
dreams and do everything you have ever wanted to do? Be realistic. Do not
postpone life to make an extra dollar. Do not put yourself in the jail of regrets.
 Slow dance by David Weatherford

Ferriss includes this poem in his bestseller The four hour work week after his
chapter on Liberation (where he talks about what you’re supposed to do with all
this new time and mobility you can eventually gain after changing your
time-management habits). The poem serves as an argument for why we need to
collectively do our best to escape the “9–5 drudgery” in our ordinary work lives.

Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round,

or listened to rain slapping the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight,

or gazed at the sun fading into the night?

You better slow down, don’t dance so fast,

time is short, the music won’t last.

Do you run through each day on the fly,

when you ask “How are you?”, do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed,

with the next hundred chores running through your head?

You better slow down, don’t dance so fast,

time is short, the music won’t last.

Ever told your child, we’ll do it tomorrow,

and in your haste, not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch, let a friendship die,

’cause you never had time to call and say hi?

You better slow down, don’t dance so fast,

time is short, the music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere,

you miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

it’s like an unopened gift thrown away.

Life isn’t a race, so take it slower,

hear the music before your song is over.

BE PRESENT!
 How much time do you have? - hypothesis

Have you ever thought about how much time you actually have to do what you
want to do? How much free time are you going to enjoy? Let’s take a look at the
graph below. Apart from the fact that the prognosis is not optimistic at all, it
contains a great lesson for us to learn.
 “The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”

Dante Alighieri

Let's suppose that you will live for 80 years, this means that you will have on
average 1500 days of free time in your life. That is just a couple of years! If you
reached 80, it would represent only about 5 % of your lifetime. The point is that
every single day, hour, minute and even every second counts at the end.
Understand it and accept it now.

“Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.”

Mario Benedetti

The aim is not to scare you. It is only to give you an example of how short life
could be even if you manage to reach 80 years of age. It’s relative.

Time is relative.

Time is elastic. Time will stretch to accomodate what we choose to put in it.

You can enjoy as much freedom in 10 days as some will enjoy in their entire
life. It’s about the philosophy behind this idea. These examples are meant to
inspire you, give you a different perspective. It doesn't have to be this bad, but it
is definitely necessary to understand and accept. You are at the beginning of a
change and it’s up to you where you will end.
“We have got better technology, more tools, applications, notebooks and diaries
than ever before and yet we still rush somewhere. Everything is getting faster
and more effective and yet, we are still rarely on time. There is no such a thing
as time management.”

Rory Vaden
 Don’t rush your life.

Consider the development of science and the long lifespan we are looking at. It
is very likely that younger generations will have, on average, 10 more years to
live than the older generations. Possibly a decade, maybe even 15 or 20 years. It
doesn’t necessarily mean that the quality of life will be better, but it still
represents a positive premise.

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four
sharpening
the axe.”

Abraham Lincoln

We should always bear in mind that we are going to live longer. Not to waste
more time, but to increase our interest in the environment, to become value
conscious and to think outside of our own interests. We should be able to think
far outside of our own egos. Think long-term, rather than short-term. Long-term
thinking is always the best method in any problem-solving process. We are
probably going to spend more time alive than the generations before us, let’s
adapt our mindsets to it.

“Think long term. Plan short term. Live at the moment.”

TRLE
It’s like politics. Imagine that each term lasted 15 years instead of 4 or 5.
Politicians would probably behave differently. Not because they would want to,
but because they would have to. Otherwise, they would lose all the chances to
be voted in again. 15 years is a very long journey and if politicians started
losing their focus on the longer term impacts, people would let them know.
Maybe they would try to build something bigger, to set some values to follow.
They would probably think twice before doing something. The key is to always
look far ahead, beyond the horizon. To think long-term. To set the right
direction and follow it when the obstacles arise.

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

Leo Tolstoy

For our readers who have just graduated, we have a special advice - be patient.
Spending years trying to figure out what you love and what you want to do is
definitely not a waste of time.

Invest your time into finding what makes you happy, motivated and
generates you some income. This is not a waste of time. This is a time
investment.

Being patient is not a waste of time. Waiting for miracle is. Sharpening your
saw to get the tree down swiftly and effortlessly is a good time investment. Not
doing so might cost you more energy, time and nerves when cutting down the
stubborn tree.
The only thing you can completely live through is your life. Our lifetime is only
about the present moments. Therefore, there is no valid reason to rush.

“The present is the real present!”

TRLE

There is no valid argument for waiting for tomorrow to make yourself happy. If
you're not satisfied right now, why do you think something will change in the
future? The future is made in the present. The present moment is all we’ve got.
Feel the presence. Make the most of it. And most importantly, be grateful for it!

“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future.
Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain
experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future,
but we don't know if there is one.”

George Harrison
 I don’t have time for that - The cult of being busy

We live in a toxic culture where everyone is “busy”, where nobody has enough
time. Where does all the time go?

The problem comes, as we mentioned before, with our perception of time. We

value time similarly as we value money. This is rooted in the fact that most
people work for wages, which means that their income is based on the amount
of time they spend working. So when somebody offers you double the amount
of money per hour, you are very likely to say yes - even if you truly hate the
job.

Of course, everybody has his own price. However, the paradigm we use when
thinking about the time must change, it needs to evolve. Time is way more
important than money. Time and money should not be valued similarly,
otherwise we (as a society) will simply not progress.

Time is priceless.

We wear the most basic tool, such as the Rolex watch, to show time in order to
impress others with the price of the item. We neglect love, overspend our most
precious resources - time, energy and money on collecting incomes only to
spend our money on the goods and items we do not actually need in our lives.
 “Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”

William Penn

Due to this vicious circle, we usually have much less time to spend on the things
we actually love. We have to spend less time with our family, less time doing
what we want to do and less time travelling. The outcome is unfortunately very
alarming. We've got much less time left!

Why do we still work so hard and so much in the age of information?

We are all consistently being defeated by the fashion trends, nutrition marketing
or social media advertisement. We have become the victims of the modern age
capitalism. This age is based on selling as many unnecessary things as possible
to people, persuading them that they cannot live without them anymore. We live
in the era of the consumption economy. We are constantly being persuaded that
we have to work harder (longer), and spend better (more). The problem is that
we can’t keep up with the trends, latest fashion and the newest tools as they are
being made to be sold one after another, every single year, four seasons, twelve
months and so on…

A new pair of stylish shoes will not make you happy. Consumer life sucks.
The mainstream principles of a successful man of the modern society are
simple. Work a lot of hours (sell your time) and work very hard (at least try to
look busy). Spend many resources, buy the latest fashion goods and plenty of
other goods that are discounted. Mondays always suck, Friday nights are the
reason to be alive and the weekends are there for the Netflix lovers and
workaholics (who either chill, or work even more respectively). What kind of
lifestyle is that?

Enough criticism, let’s break down the solutions! Let’s learn how to become a
real time investor. Let’s take a look at the steps towards successful time
investing and the huge benefits it brings us.
 “Time management is about life management.”

​Idowu Koyenikan

Let’s begin with this popular topic of time management. As you might have
figured out by yourself, time management is an impossible task. You cannot
manage the time. What you can manage is yourself. Your flow of energy and
attention. This will be our aim.

The main problem with time management is that it actually does not exist. Time
is too relative for us to manage it.

However, that doesn’t mean that we cannot manage ourselves. ​

An efficient
self-management is the goal of all top time investors.

Fundamentally, self-management breaks down to a couple of very important

aspects such as energy management​
; goals, values and priorities; setting and
analysing processes and management of the needs of an individual. These are
essential skills for every single successful time investor. This skillset is the key
to both easier and happier life. It is the way to do more in less time - to become
more effective. Being more effective should also mean less busy and healthier -
both physically and mentally.

“Where your attention goes, your time goes”

Idowu Koyenikan
According to Jordan Bernt Peterson, a well respected Canadian clinical
psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, an
average undergraduate nowadays spends about half a year of work weeks by
watching youtube videos, browsing on social media or procrastinating. That is a
colossal amount of time going nowhere. Not talking about the money that is
wasted on the student's studies.

“Time is a choice.”

TRLE

If you say you don’t have time for something, it basically means that it's not
important for you. Set yourself the right values to recognize what is
important.
 Value-priority-task

“You can do anything but not everything”

David Allen

You’ve got 24 hours a day. You have only got 24 hours a day. You can
potentially do a lot of things, but you cannot squeeze in too many of them,
because you’re still going to be limited. That’s why prioritisation is such an
important tool for your self-management. Efficient behaviour is about doing
only the most important things that generate the most income (not only
financial, but also emotional, material etc.).

“Efficiency is about balance.”

Stephen R. Covey

Setting your priorities will help you avoid being overwhelmed when thinking
about where to begin. By prioritizing, you are changing the order of the
activities you are going to do. Putting the most important things first makes
your life so much more efficient, because there is technically no chance of not
having them done. The very best time to start is today. The second best is
tomorrow morning.
 “Life is short. Focus on what really matters most; you should change your
priorities over time.”

Roy T. Bennett

“If you set the right values, you will deal with good problems. You’ll instantly
get some direction. You’ll know what to do, thus you will be way more
disciplined and goal oriented. You can not buy time, but you can buy things that
provide you with more time. You can not create time, but if you prioritize, you
lift the most important things from the lowest spots to the highest in order to
ensure that you will get them done.”

TRLE

Why can’t you be busy?

Nobody is actually busy. We are only cultivating the feeling of busyness.

However, no one can be literally “busy”. The state of being busy does not exist.
When you are doing something in the present, you are doing it because, in the
past, you have chosen to do it. This means that you had the power of choice.
And it also means that you do value it more than any other thing you could be
doing. Your actions prove this right. When you decide what you want to do, you
do so based on its importance. To you, this thing is a priority. When deciding
what to do, you are simultaneously postponing or eliminating many things,
which you do not see as important. You do not find them as important, they're
not your ​
priority.
So what does it actually mean to be busy? The vast majority of people would
think that it means that one has a lot on his/her plate, but the real reason for that
concerns the questions of​prioritization.

This is the meaning of busyness.

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want
to.”

老子 (Lao Tzu)

To have a lot on one's plate means that the person is lazy to think twice
about his future action. Don’t be the lazy person who does not want to
contemplate his/her actions.
 80/20 Pareto principle

The ultimate key to using our time in the best way is to use this simple and
ubiquitous rule called The 80/20 Principle. The rule comes from an italian
engineer Vilfredo Pareto and was popularized by Richard Koch in his bestseller
called ​
The 80/20 Principle.​ This principle is the only one you have to
understand if you want to become significantly more efficient. It is so simple
and yet so effective. Let’s deconstruct it's philosophy.

“Perfect is the enemy of good”

Confucius

Richard Koch explains the whole concept behind 80/20 very briefly in his book
as follows:

“80 percent of products, or customers or employees, are only contributing 20

percent of profits; that there is great waste; that the most powerful resources of
the company are being held back by a majority of much less effective resources;
that profits could be multiplied if more of the best sort of products could be
sold, employees hired, or customers attracted (or convinced to buy more from
the firm).”
You’ll never become completely perfect. We all strive for perfection, yet it turns
out that craving to have anything perfect wastes the most precious commodity.
Yes, time. Our time...

“Perfection is achieved when nothing can be taken away.”

Rory Vaden

Accept imperfection and publish your work. Do not wait until it’s perfect. It will
never reach that crazy unrealistic goal. This whole idea of 80/20 says that we
should first analyse our inputs and outputs. After that, there’s nothing holding
us back from efficiency. Not only our world, but also the whole universe is
based on predictable imbalances. We can certainly say that not every single
action triggers the same size of reaction as other actions would. You can see a
predictable imbalance at any point. The fun part is that you never know where it
comes from.
“Adopting 80/20 mindset is a huge win for every single human being willing to
invest more than spend.”

TRLE

This rule seems to be more even more correct in the modern times. If you
consider the power of internet and all the interconnected networks we have
developed as a society, there has never been a better time to focus more on the
golden rule of productivity.

Say you are a head of a decent company dealing with 100 customers. You
devote equal time to every single of them because you expect that every single
one of them makes the 1% of your profit. However, that is horribly unreal. The
world simply doesn’t work like that.

“What we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore—plays in defining

the quality of our life.”

Cal Newport

If you'd conduct an analysis of your revenue, you’ll find that roughly 20

customers are contributing to the 80% of all your profits. This shows you that if
you shift your focus from the inefficient 80% to the 20% of customers that are
contributing to the majority of your profits, you are going to generate a lot of
income and you’ll gain ⅘ of your precious time! It is that simple. You can apply
this golden mindset anywhere you want.
This magical rule could be used on daily basis. As Koch points out, even the 1%
could dramatically transform the whole situation and could lead to more than
100% greater profits and growth in the future.

“Most of everything you do does not matter.”

TRLE

The key is to realize the power of imbalance and exploit it. It doesn’t have to be
exactly 80/20, but the idea stays the same. Understanding and applying this
simple principle would give anyone a lot of precious time. It is so true and yet
appears to be unreal. Give it a try and you will not regret!
 Rory Vaden’s Focus Funnel

Rory Vaden is an expert when it comes to procrastination on purpose, which is a

term he invented for the process illustrated in the focus funnel. The aim of this
whole process is to never become overwhelmed and to avoid any unnecessary
tasks. It is a revolutionary scheme for self management.

“What can you do today to make your tomorrow better?”

Rory Vaden

According to Rory, time-management does not exist and the only thing you
have to manage is the flow of your energy.

Eliminate, automate, delegate, do

Every task you have to cope with should first go through this filter. First of all,
could you eliminate doing it? If not, then it continues. If yes, congratulations,
you’ve just got rid of a task that was wasting your time. Can you automate it? If
not, can you at least delegate it to someone else? The process of delegating
things is extremely useful and usually very beneficial to both sides involved.
These days, you can outsource anything thanks to the world's global
interconnection. The power of outsourcing is immense. If you hate cleaning,
why should you bother doing it on a weekly basis, when you can pay someone
else to substitute you, do it better and you won’t lose a single minute of your
life. Why not pay for that? Isn’t that a decent investment?

“Automation is to your time exactly what compound interest is to your money.”

Rory Vaden

If there is something that cannot be delegated, it is completely up to you

whether you will target it and treat it as your priority, or you will postpone it
and run it through the funnel from the start again next time.

Remember, time is a choice.

 Respect your needs

The satisfaction of our needs is vital to living a healthy life. Your current needs
are the most important measurements of your life standard. How well you
respect them is the very best indicator of your current life conditions. If you do
not respect your needs enough, you’ll get into some serious trouble.

You need to be alone, as well as you need to be involved in good company. You
need to be loved as well as you need to love. You need to nourish yourself
regularly as well as you need to sleep regularly. The vast majority of people
neglect their needs because they do not respect them enough. The reason behind
this toxic behaviour is rooted in the values of every individual. If a person
values his or her career too much, there is less of time and energy left for
anything else on the list. Furthermore, any similar disbalance results in wasting
a lot of time and exhaustion over a couple of years. I bet you do not want to
burn out because you did not dedicate enough time to your most basic needs.

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time,
you will not do anything with it.”

M. Scott Peck

If you are not alright, if you do not live a well-balanced life, if you neglect
yourself or if you don’t believe in yourself, how can others like you? Everything
starts on the inside. Every single change we want to make is possible only if we
change ourselves first. Everything in this universe works on this principle.
Value yourself. Your body is the only place where you have to live, respect it.
Nourish it, treat it with pleasure and listen to it every single day. Sleep at least 7
hours every day. Even if you sleep 9 hours a day and work 8 hours, you still
have the remaining 7 hours to do whatever you want. Keep your life balanced
and never neglect your needs. The amount of time you can save by respecting
your needs and maintaining health is enormous!

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Invest in yourself. It is the best investment you can ever make. You cannot buy
happiness, time or health. However, you can live happily, which attracts health
and generates you the time of your life on this beautiful planet!

“Less Is Not Laziness”

Timothy Ferriss

According to one of the most successful people on this planet, Tim Ferriss, there
are two golden rules of self management.

This man has written many amazing books, all of them definitely more than
worth reading. There is no doubt among people that Tim has managed to
become the greatest metateacher of all time. His ideas are worth sharing and his
personality worth admiring.
In his first bestseller - t​he ​Four-Hour Workweek (the manuscript of which has
been, by the way, rejected by 25 publishers), Tim defines the key to
productivity. Most importantly, in relation to the time management issue, he
came up with the following two rules of task management.

1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

This philosophy is based on the rational analysis of what is actually important

and makes you productive. 80% of things are really not that crucial for you.
There are loads of tasks which do require massive amount of your time and yet,
you shouldn't bother with them. If you feel like you have to do something you
really hate just because others do it, stop and ask yourself - is this really that
important?

Time is a choice, again!

But we are always so overwhelmed! A brand-new cult of getting unnecessarily

busy has been developing in the society for many years. We are constantly
overwhelmed by something. And if we’re not, we at least pretend to be so that
we don't feel bad about it. This is a huge problem since we’ve developed many
habits connected with this issue. It is all rooted in our perception of other
individuals. We do perceive busyness as something very admirable and we do
accept it with praise. We are constantly praising the busiest people for “the
amount of work they are doing”. However, the mastering process of our self
management and of the time investment is focused on reducing the time and the
energy we spend to doing only the really necessary things and freeing ourselves
of unnecessary worries as much as possible.

Another rule from Tim Ferriss concerns two types of income.

Relative income is more important than absolute income.

Absolute income is the amount of money you generate.

Relative income uses two variables: your absolute income and time you work,
usually in hours. You can get paid decently and become relatively rich as far as
the financial side is concerned. However, the truth is that you have paid with
your time spent in the office. If you worked 10 hours a week and got paid 100
dollars (absolute income), you have made 10 dollars per hour (relative income).
If I worked 50 hours a week and got paid 250 dollars (absolute income), I would
make 5 dollars per hour (relative income). Why would someone want to make
money by trading his own precious time so disadvantageously?

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we
receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we
have wastefully.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Do you want to make more money and sacrifice your own time? What is more
precious for you? Your time or your money? Having read this far, you should be
able to answer this question yourself pretty quickly.

The biggest issue with this is that there is a very limited amount of wealth
available working in this system. You might be rich, yet you might not be
wealthy. What's the difference you might be asking. In our definition, rich is
someone who has a lot of money and other possessions. In contrast, someone
who has the commodities mentioned above and time in addition to these, that
person is wealthy. Why would you want a higher wage/salary, if it costs you
more time? Isn’t it better to free yourself from being paid for an hour of work
and work on yourself whenever you want instead?

“Focusing on results is always better than focusing on time”

TRLE

We don’t need as much time as we thought

Paraphrasing T. Ferriss, this idea is definitely worth sharing with anyone who
thinks that the creation of anything good requires a very long time. “If I gave
you 24 hours to complete a project, the time pressure forces you to focus on
execution, and you have no choice but to do only the bare essentials. If I gave
you a week to complete the same task, it’s six days of making a mountain out of
a molehill.”
You do need significantly less time than you think. It is only about your
perception. Always give yourself some clear deadline, otherwise you will never
finish. Be a finisher, not a perfectionist. Complete your task at your 80% which
requires 20% of the time. It is way better than striving for an unapproachable
perfection and killing loads of time.
 Social media

You are what you do, not what you read. What you do repeatedly is who you
are. Don’t become a mentor of empty phrases. Don’t proclaim stuff you don’t
believe in or don’t do. Don't be a hypocrite. Social media is a huge problem in
self-management and many people are fully aware of that. Yet, we still struggle
enormously. Distractions are literally everywhere. We cannot hide ourselves
from them. Wait, can we not?

Of course, we can. However, the addiction spreaded among the younger

generations is undoubtedly horrifying. We are so addicted that we often forget
to work deeply. Owing to the lack of focus, we struggle to be efficient. This
issue is more connected with our time, ehm, self-management, than you would
expect. Cal Newport, the legend himself, has published a very useful book
called ​
Deep work.​Let’s break down some of his ideas...
Constant access to the virtual tools, constant interconnection between us and the
rest of the world is killing our productivity as nothing before. The biggest
challenge we have to deal with is that we need to learn to deeply concentrate, to
focus and to become present in what we do. We’ve been bombarded by the
technology for so long that we’ve already lost the sense of deep meaningful
work.

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of
life.”
 Charles Darwin

According to Cal Newport, “If you keep interrupting your evening to check and
respond to emails, or put aside a few hours after dinner to catch up on an
approaching deadline, you’re robbing your directed attention centers of the
uninterrupted rest they need for restoration. Even if these work dashes consume
only a small amount of time, they prevent you from reaching the levels of
deeper relaxation in which attention restoration can occur. Only the confidence
that you’re done with work until the next day can convince your brain to
downshift to the level where it can begin to recharge for the next day to follow.
Put in another way, trying to squeeze a little more work out of your evenings
might reduce your effectiveness the next day enough that you end up getting
less done than if you had instead respected a shutdown.”
POWER HOUR is a huge tool which Cal suggests. It should not be that hard to
exploit the first hour of the day on the most difficult task. Your most productive
work could easily come during this hour. You have no bigger distraction as the
world is sleeping. You can focus significantly better as you have slept well and
you can prevent procrastination by doing the most important job directly after
getting up from your bed.

“Unplug yourself and the focus will come to you.”

TRLE

Eliminate your distractions. Your phone doesn’t have to be on all the time. You
don’t have to be prepared to instantly answer every message. You are a human
being and you deserve your time and peace. We are not machines programmed
by god to work and respond 24/7.

“We have learned to work too superficially.”

TRLE

We are constantly checking our phones, laptops, mailboxes and everyone's

opinions on us that we’ve forgotten to take care of ourselves and enjoy the
present moments. The worst thing is that our superficial work is way too
unproductive. We do a lot of unnecessary things and yet we do not take time to
think properly and schedule ourselves the next day or the upcoming week.

“If you service low-impact activities, therefore, you're taking away time you
could be spending on higher-impact activities. It's a zero-sum game.”

Cal Newport

It is very important to make sure you understand this. We do work superficially

in the present, which looks good only on the surface - there is no value in it. We
have to re-design our working habits and mindset concerning our productivity.
The most powerful state in which we can do something is rooted in the presence
of our mind. It is rooted in the flow, the most powerful state of mind!
 The power of flow - the presence of mind

You all surely know the feeling when you are so deep into the activity you are
doing that you don’t care about time passing by and you are so focused and
happy, which motivates you to repeat the activity more often. That is the power
of flow. It makes you so engaged in the activity that you completely forget
about your worries and time. And most importantly, you are incredibly creative
and productive during this time.

The ultimate aim of self-management is to involve more flow time to your

weekly schedules. It is difficult. But it is very tangible for each and every one of
us. Try unplugging for a while. By eliminating your distractions, you can create
time and space for your deep work and the flow will find you...

“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future.
Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain
experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future,
but we don't know if there is one.”

George Harrison
 Get organized

My personal problem is that all the time I usually waste is connected to looking
for things in my room. I am a messy person, which has already taken away from
me a lot of time to work with. The problem of your environment being a mess is
that it distracts you. You need to understand the power of your surroundings. If
you live in a clean and simple room, the chances are that your thoughts would
be much clearer and you would not get distracted that easily. Additionally, you
will not lose plenty of time looking for something.
Being organized helps a lot. If you want to invest your time better, try to teach
yourself the habit of organising yourself and your environment. Remember the
process of automatization? This is very similar. The productivity of an
individual very strongly depends on his ability to organize himself. The ones
who are perfectly organized have generally much higher chances to succeed due
to increased focused - productivity.

Plan your meals, cook in bulk, make a shopping list, schedule your activities,
think forward in every single area of your life. Cultivate a lot of useful habits.

“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be
broken.”

Warren Buffet

The most successful people are the ones who schedule themselves very simple
chain of healthy habits every single day. They repeat most activities of their
days at the exact same time. They are very accurate in the timing and even the
sequences of actions that follow each other. Their tomorrow is scheduled in the
same way as was their yesterday. They have written the screenplay they are
going to play themselves. They do not give themselves much time to waste.
That is the path where success is made. And it is all scheduled!

The reason standing behind their positive impact is undoubtedly a perfectly

timed chain of habits. Nothing more. Only a simple daily sequence of activities
accurately following one another ranging from the morning routines to the
evening meditations.

Build your system of habits.

Their days are literally scheduled so that they make the most of them. That is
their ultimate goal. By decreasing the amount of possible decisions, they
consciously save a lot of time for the most important tasks, or at least the more
important ones. The most important tasks during their days are not the morning
questions regarding what outfit they should wear or what coffee they should
have for breakfast. They formed their own habits in order to help them reduce
the amount of their everyday decisions almost to zero.

A very useful tip from one of the greatest investors, Warren Buffet, is to write
20 things you wish you could achieve. Then review this list and rank the goals
from 1 (the most important) to 20 (the least important). Once you are done with
this, you have successfully identified your top 5 priorities. Focus on these and
disregard the rest.
 “The bad news is - your time flies fast. The good news is - you’re the pilot of
your life.”

TRLE

The philosophy behind this attitude is very simple. You don't have to bother
with anything that is unnecessary to solve. That is the mentality behind the
system of effective time and energy saving. The surplus of energy and time they
gain through reduction of the question factors is used for more important issues.

Adapt the mindset of better tomorrows. You must be willing to make your
tomorrow better. That is your direction. Good habits will help you immensely.

Commuting can be exploited

“I’ve spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer home office.”

Hillary Clinton

Commuting is a daily struggle for almost every person working outside their
home.

According to a BBC article about commuting, ​

an average Londoner spends
more than 40 minutes on his/her way to work every day. That is a solid amount
of time. Provided you commute on your own or via public transport, you don’t
really have to stay concentrated for most of that time. Obviously, you have to
pay attention. But, after couple of months, you automatically memorize the
route to work so you can reduce your focus a little bit more.

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same
number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and
Albert Einstein.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life’s Little Instruction Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If you don’t have to focus on your way, you have plenty of time to do
something meaningful. There’s plenty of things. You can listen to podcasts,
listen to some audiobooks or your favourite music to both motivate or calm
yourself during commuting. You can spend your time thinking or intentionally
not doing anything. These idle moments are very important and will be
discussed more in detail later in the book.

Imagine the amount of your time you could save working on yourself during
your commuting. It’s not that hard. Say, you commute every day, 30 minutes to
your job or to school. That makes 2 hours and 30 minutes every week. Still not
enough? Here’s a year - 125 hours. 125 hours added as a bonus to your life!
What an achievement! And you are able to accomplish this only using your time
spent commuting to grow. The time you didn’t even know existed is there just
for you! Devote it to yourself, you deserve it.
Exploit your time you would otherwise have wasted travelling. You do not have
to waste it completely!

“The scarcity of time is the reason we have to concentrate on one thing at a

time.”

Matt Perman

Be careful with “multitasking”

You can never focus on multiple tasks at one moment. What you can do is to
manage doing various tasks simultaneously. However, your superficial actions
will result in a fairly low quality of the output of your work. The lack of your
concentration on every single task will inevitably lead to a drop in the quality of
your results.

“You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at
once.”

Gary Keller

It is practically impossible for a person to deeply focus on more than one thing
simultaneously. Of course, people say that women do this better than men, but it
is still not the most productive way of doing stuff. When you’re eating, eat.
When you’re having a conversation, throw away your phone. When you’re
watching a movie, think about it. When you’re reading, focus on the lines.
Don’t get easily distracted.

A very useful tip to improve your focus instantly is to have some sort of a
background music on when you're working. It should not be anything you could
interact with (in terms of attention). However, it prevents you from getting
distracted as it keeps your sense (hearing) occupied. It also helps your brain in
terms of focusing its attention on the important task as it can shift some of its
attention from unexpected noises to your task.

Don’t neglect your idle time (get bored from time to time)

You’ve been gifted by a huge amount of time for yourself. You only have to
realize it. Use it wisely and learn to exploit it. Try to “get bored” from time to
time. Do not schedule yourself anything. Keep your phone away - stop. Give
your brain some time to relax. Accept the fact that it is unhealthy to be instantly
in the center of your tasks. Give yourself a little break from everything.

“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”

Dante Alighieri

Try not to think at all. Or instead of thinking, try meditating. Even the idle
moments could be beneficial. It turns out that when you’re bored, or when you
have completely nothing to do, your brain gets creative - you could think of
something you couldn't work out before! Just relax and let yourself think for a
while. Don’t force it though, it should be as natural as possible. You’ll realize
the power of these moments after you give it a few tries. You can get the eureka
effect (the AHA! moment) pretty easily by letting your brain work. It is
completely natural.

And the best thing is that the principle 80/20 works perfectly in these cases.
When you're given a task, your brain works on it even though you might not
realise. Your brain does it all unconsciously and it might seem that the solution
came out of the blue. However, that is not even close to the reality. Let your
unconsciousness do the hard work and dedicate yourself some time to do so.

“The mindset of having fun and killing the time is toxic.”

TRLE

Many people feel like they have to kill the time sometimes. This paradigm
might be very misleading. You have to understand the toxicity of allowing
yourself to waste time. This will surely happen sometimes! As soon as you
realise, try to give it a further thought. Think about what you're doing and why
you are doing it. Be as objective as possible. Instead of picking up your phone,
try to exploit your while as we mentioned above. Learn to be alone with your
thoughts. This will help you immensely in the future.

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

Mitch Albom
Reward yourself. Rest is as important as the exercise itself. We need to stay
healthy not only physically, but also mentally. Every single one of us needs
something else. What we all need though, is balance.

“Taking a rest is equally as important as having your work done.”

Simon Sinek

Play social games, read, enjoy your time with family and friends, devote some
time to yourself, explore the world, learn about different cultures, travel more
and make the most of your time. Living life should make you happy. You
should make yourself happy. Your happiness comes from within. You’ve got
the power to do so.

“You cannot always be doing what you love, but you can always love what you
do.”

TRLE
 Nobody actually cares over time...

Read this quote from Joseph Addison every single day if you’re scared of
failing, or if you feel like you have a low self-confidence. The interpretation is
completely up to you...

“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me;
when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out;
when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with
compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I consider the
vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings
lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side,
or the men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with
sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of
mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died
yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great Day when we
shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together”

Joseph Addison

“Always think of the end.”

Stephen R. Covey
 Final word

How do you want to be seen one day? What do you want to leave behind in
this world? What feeling do you want to provoke in minds of your closest
friends and family? All of these are very necessary questions in relation to
your future direction. Your future is created today. Where do you want to
go? How much do you want to risk? What do you want to sacrifice? How
much time do you want to lose? How many days do you have left? What is
the purpose of your life?

Always think in the long term. Measure results, not time. Schedule yourself
a balanced life. Organize yourself. Do not stand still, but be patient and
never rush anywhere. Become grateful for what you have and accept that
you are going to die one day. When you accept it, you will free yourself
from many stressful situations.

You’ll die someday. Accept the fact that your time is limited, learn to be
comfortable with this fact. If you’ve set yourself the right values (we’re
getting back to the beginning of the book) you won’t regret a minute of
your life… Why? Because you will not have wasted one. And that is after
all, our major aim. The mission we all share is to not waste a single second
of our time anymore. It is to invest our time into whatever makes us
happier or creates more free time in the future. We cannot buy our time
back by becoming productive. However we can lose significantly less of it,
compared to how much we would have lost otherwise.
 Bonus

Original version from ​Bill Bryson - ​

A Short History of Nearly Everything

“If you imagine the 4,500-billion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a
normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of
the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the
next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths
over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes.
Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the
first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in
Australia. At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less
immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale. Just before 10 P.M.
plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in
the day, the first land creatures follow.”

“Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in

the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first
winged insects are evident. Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M.
and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour. At twenty-one minutes to
midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins. Humans emerge one
minute and seventeen seconds before midnight. The whole of our recorded
history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human
lifetime barely an instant. Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents
slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless. Mountains
rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and
withdraw. And throughout the whole, about three times every minute,
somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of
a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger. It's a wonder that anything at all can
survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment. ​
In fact, not many things
do for long.”

List of books we would love to recommend to anyone passionate about time

and self-management

The four-hour work week - Tim Ferriss

Deep work - Cal Newport
Getting things done - David Allen
The power of habit - Charles Duhigg
7 habits of highly effective people - Stephen R. Covey
Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The 80/20 principle - Richard Koch
Procrastinate on purpose - Rory Vaden
Start with why - Simon Sinek
Tools of titans - Tim Ferriss
Obstacle is the way - Ryan Holiday
 Thank you

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