Maybe you’re like this – I definitely am. One of the most common “issues” for people is not having the time to get everything done. If you talk about this, you’ll find that people think that if they had “more time,” like more hours, during the day, that would solve their problem, but I just don’t believe that’s true and here’s why:

At this point I have surveyed thousands of folks asking them how much “high productivity” time they send during an average work day – high productivity being time when they are increasing the value of their businesses. The answers average about two and one-half hours, and this despite how much time they actually work. In other words, this same 150 minutes holds true for an seven-hour day or a twelve hour one.

I’ve thought about this a lot and come to believe the real issue is not “more time” because it doesn’t seem to matter how much time there is, but rather what you manage to do with it. Now, THIS IS NOT NEWS : EVERYBODY ALREADY KNOWS THIS.

And yet, so many of us seem powerless to change the result. But I’ve also come to view time in what for me is a new way. Time is not something to be saved, or somehow managed, but rather I’m seeing time as a measure of how much “me” there is available for things. I find this point of view somewhat freeing and it provides a new kind of focus, like a new clarity of intention. I’m not sure why this is, but it’s working for me.

Based on this thinking I included a ‘getting more stuff done with the time available” mini-program in my newest FormulaFIVE material; something I call Sustainable Performance Mastery. This is a fancy way of saying getting more of the right things done more of the time. So needless to say, I’ve been focusing my own energy and attention on just that – improved output, improved results, less actual time worked.

And you know what? It’s really working for me.

I’ve just released Sustainable Performance Mastery to the folks who are in the FormulaFIVE program. I’ll keep you posted on the results.