Spending Our Lives

In the latest issue of Exchange, Dennis Vicars observes... "spending time is spending our lives. Viewing time and life through that lens should place a much higher priority on how we conduct our daily business."

To help us examine if we are spending our time effectively Vicars suggests asking yourself questions such as the following:

• Do I allow people to command my time in unproductive activities?
• Do I have to do these tasks or can I allow someone else the opportunity to grow from the experience and free me up for critical activities that I should do?
• Do I do certain activities that are consistent with my body clock so that I maximize performance while minimizing time usage?
• Do I carve out time in the day where no one is allowed to bother me unless it is a life and death situation to a child, parent, or staff person?
• Do I work on my really important stuff first or do I look for feel good checklist stuff of low priority and little value to my job?
• Do I spend my time where my greatest rate of return will be (i.e., teachers and parents)?
• Do I spend more time doing what is important as opposed to doing what I like to do?
• Do we really need to have a meeting about this?

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