Repairing the Time Drains

All our primary resources are immensely valuable… Time, Energy, and Money.
And Time is most people’s most precious resource, and the one which is most scarce.
Yet, time is so frequently wasted by many people… it just slides by.
Which is what makes so-called Time Management so difficult.

With energy and money, to some extent we are more aware of how they are allocated and used. With time, it just flows by and often we don’t realise if it has been wasted until later.

Over recent years, there has been much talk on the news and in the press about parts of the UK having a water shortage, and many have levelled criticism at the water companies for the amount of water lost to leakage from pipes in need of repair.
To continue the analogy and tie it in with some "Time Management"…

Imagine your time is like water, and is flowing through your life carried by a series of pipes, like a network of pipes which ensure your time gets to those parts of your life which need it. …  many people do have enormous volumes of time lost to Leakage.
Well, if these water pipes leak, we want to repair them. And if there are leaks in our time, we want to stop them.
And if these pipes simply lead to a drain, where the time water just flows away uselessly, we want to divert the pipe to make sure the time we need can be devoted to the parts of life which need it.

So, where are the Leaks in your time system? What is it that Drains your time? What is it that you can change to make better use of your time?What is your number 1 Time Drain?
And what leak-stopping measures have you put in place/
What is your handling strategy? Your groundrules for preventing that time from ebbing away?