In this newsletter I aim to give you tips and valuable information to give you More Time and More Life with Less Stress.

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1. Time is not on your side

How many hours do you think make up the average lifetime? Go on, have a guess and write it down.

We all know there are 24 hours in a day and each day you get 24 hours to play with. The thing is though that, once these hours are gone, you cannot get them back. Instead you get a whole new set of 24 hours in your life account and off you go again.

THE POWER QUESTION

What are you doing with these hours?

Are you spending them wisely and treating them as a precious resource or, are you just letting them pass you by with little attention?

So, back to the number of hours in an average lifetime...

More than a million perhaps?

Well if you want a million hours in your life you would aim to live for around 115 years.

If you live to age 80 you will have 700,800 hours, so if you are already 40 years old that leaves you with 350,400 hours. Not that much really when you think about it!

If you were to see it as a bank account, how would that change your thinking?

Click on this link and see what happens:

http://www.scottstratten.com/movie.html

It's an interesting perspective and makes some powerful points.

Has it made you want to do something differently today?

2. Work it out

What percentage of your daily hours are taken up by work? What about sleep? Add those two together and then how much is left for everything else? Not enough  perhaps?

How much do you enjoy the hours you spend working? If you love the work you do then to many of us it just isn't work. But if you don't love what you do for a living then how can you get more value out of your working life?

What you can do is make work more interesting by concentrating on the aspects of your job you like best. List those down and then list the aspects you most dislike. You can use the 'Do what you like at work' exercise under the section titled 'Build your ideal support team'. Just use the link below:

http://www.dreamcatcher-lifecoaching.co.uk/lgym.htm

Then click on the Members Area on the left where you will be asked the following:

Username: lifegym

Password: thevault

Once you have identified the areas of your job that you like/dislike you can then see if you have other people in your team who love to do the things you hate and vice versa. In fact why not get your entire team to do this exercise and then work out how you can improve the way you all work, by redistributing the work according to preferences, thus reducing the number of tasks that you dislike doing the most.

Bear this in mind when recruiting people into the team: if there is something the whole team really dislikes doing then, the next time you are recruiting a new team member, put this in the job description as a 'must love to do...'  It could make your work life that bit less stressful and more fun!

3. Up Close and Personal

Mobiles and Marriages

I got married recently. You didn't know? Well neither did I!!!

To put you in the picture: I opened my email from the Car Phone Warehouse which had my mobile phone bill attached. The bill however didn't have my name on the top but was addressed to Mrs Henderson. At first I thought it was a software error and imagined the CPW being inundated with irate emails. On further checking though my account details, email address and phone number were correct and the bill seemed to match my usage, so I wrote an email and pointed out the error, asking for it to be corrected.

Within hours an email came back saying they could not change my details without further information to prove I was who I said I was, so I supplied this and waited.

The next day I received the following email:

"Dear Ms Brosnan

Thank you for your e-mail regarding the name on your account.

Please be advised that you name was changed on 8th April 2005 as we received a marriage certificate from you.

I have changed the name on your account back to Ms Brosnan."

I replied telling them I was bemused as I have not recently been married. I can only conclude it was human error and that Mrs Henderson is wondering why her bill still shows her maiden name!

The CPW seem to have gone very quiet on the matter...

Have a good couple of weeks!

Ann

ann@dreamcatcher-lifecoaching.co.uk

http://www.dreamcatcher-lifecoaching.co.uk/

The Life Gym is written by Ann Brosnan. Ann is a coach who specialises in working with busy  people to create More Time and More Life with Less Stress.

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