5 THINGS YOU MUST LEARN TO MANAGE

There are five things you must learn how to manage no matter your age range. These things are paramount to your success. Let's go over them one by one and see how it can help shape your future.

1. Time

Time is of the essence. we all have one thing equal and that is the 24 hours in a day. what is different between successful people and unsuccessful people is how they use this time. Unsuccessful people don't control their day, they let their day control them! For you to effectively manage your time, you must plan your day carefully.



You will need to allocate time for everything! From dawn to dusk. You will have to allocate time for everything you plan on doing for a day. First, think of all the important things you want to do in any day, organize them from the most important to least important. Delegate a specified time for each activity and discipline yourself to adhere to it.



Learn to plan your day a day before so that when you wake up, you can start your day when others are still looking for what to do. Avoid things that waste your time! Things like excessive chatting, gossip and things that will not add value to your life. I will advice that you use at least an hour everyday to study, don't just read, study!



When you start managing your time, you will experience a drastic change in your life.

 

2. Money

Money is a subject misunderstood by so many people. Money is very important on your journey to success. You will have to learn how to manage it. There are so many books, audio tapes on money management; you can contact your bookstore for more insight.

 

The first step to managing your money is to block leaks. There are so many habits that make people spend money unnecessarily, you will have to discipline yourself . To some it may excessive drinking, to others it may be drugs, to some students it may be high internet subscriptions or the need to change gadgets every month. You know yours, if you don’t, think it through. Identify it and try cutting it off, if you can’t cut it off, cut corners.

 

From today, start tracking your money, have a journal and create a section for your income and expenses. Write down all your expenses, at the end of the month , go through it and see the ones you can eliminate.

 

In addition, have separate accounts for different purposes. Have an account for your needs, 60% of your income should go into that account. have an account for your long term investment, put 10% into the account. Use 10% to buy books and save for seminars and workshops. Use 10% to spend on yourself, go out and nourish yourself. The last 10% should be used for tithes or charity. If you don’t pay tithe, use it to help the less privileged.

 

3. THOUGHTS

Thoughts lead to action and action leads to result. Your outer expression is a reflection of your inner thoughts. What you think of always is what you will invariably act on. Just like the law of attention states, “where attention goes, energy flows and results show”. It is true that you will become what you always think of. To succeed, you must learn how to manage your thoughts, especially negative thoughts.

You cannot travel through the road of success with self doubt and limiting beliefs. You either kill fear or kills your success. Fear originates from the mind and you must learn to control and master your mind. One thing you must understand is that you are not your mind, you are a separate entity from the mind, it is just a part of your body. If you don’t control your mind, it will control you. It is your duty to control your mind.

“What the mind of a man can conceive and believe, it will achieve”-Napoleon Hill

 

4.FRIENDS

Your association will determine your acceleration or deceleration. The kind of friends you keep today will affect you in the long term than most factors that contribute to success. Jim Rohn said “you will become the average of the five people you spend your most time with”. If you associate with poor people, you are on a track to remaining poor forever. Show me your friend and I will tell you how your future will look like!

Avoid negative friends, they are capable of bringing you down, it is easier to bring something down than it is to take it up. Don’t let your friends choose you, choose your friends. It is better to stay alone than to be in the wrong company. If you cannot change your friends(transform them), change them(find new ones)

Associate with people who are more than you, people who can help you grow. If you must fly with the eagles, quit playing in the mud with ducks.

 

5. LIBRARY

If people could transfer the kind of attention they put on their wardrobes to their libraries, they world will be filled with so many successful people. People focus so much on the effect rather than the cause. Our inner world is a cause, while our outer world is the effect. If you focus on the cause, you can change the effect, conversely, when you focus on feeding your mind with good books, your outer world will be a reflection of your inner success.

Successful people are constantly learning and growing that is why they have big libraries, unsuccessful people feel they don’t need a form of education after their formal education and so they focus on magazines and television.

You have to manage your library, it is pertinent that you set aside 10% of your income for buying books and attending life saving seminars. Two things are constant, if you read, you will lead and the more you learn, the more you will earn.