Quotes and Random Thoughts: Time Management
@cmoneyspinner (9218)
Austin, Texas
April 3, 2017 12:18pm CST
I receive inspiring quotes like the one below, from Thoughtful Mind Daily Quotes via eMail.
“Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.” ~ John C. Maxwell
I immediately latched on to the quote because in the first sentence, the gentleman used a figure of speech I learned in high school from one of my favorite English teachers. It brought back a memory. I don't so much care what the word means. I just always thought that literary term was funny because it had "moron" in it. 
Hey! High school teens can be silly and immature. It's perfectly normal behavior! 
Although I'm way beyond my teenage years now and still laugh when I see that word.
Sorry. I'm getting off point.
My point to this discussion is ...
Mr. Maxwell calls it “priority management”.
In the Christian scriptures, we are told to redeem the time.
In other words, use our time for doing good works.
So if his definition of “priority management” is the same as doing good works, then I agree.
Although, if that is the case, what's wrong with using the phrase “time management”?
I mean you won't sound like a moron if you use it. Will you?
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(NOTE: Could not find the Maxwell quote when I searched at Thoughtful Mind database. But did find that somebody had shared it on Twitter with a very nice image. )
Happy Monday good people! 
Hey! High school teens can be silly and immature. It's perfectly normal behavior! Although I'm way beyond my teenage years now and still laugh when I see that word.
Sorry. I'm getting off point.
My point to this discussion is ...
Mr. Maxwell calls it “priority management”.
In the Christian scriptures, we are told to redeem the time.
In other words, use our time for doing good works.
So if his definition of “priority management” is the same as doing good works, then I agree.
Although, if that is the case, what's wrong with using the phrase “time management”?
I mean you won't sound like a moron if you use it. Will you?
* * *
(NOTE: Could not find the Maxwell quote when I searched at Thoughtful Mind database. But did find that somebody had shared it on Twitter with a very nice image. )
Happy Monday good people! 
““Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead...” ~ John C. Maxwell”
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
3 Apr 17
I find these days, my children are constant reminders that family matters are priorities that often pop up! They aren't in your day-to-day plans of prioritized things to do. But you always have to be ready to handle them and devoted whatever time is needed. How have you been? Good to hear from you!
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
4 Apr 17
@Gina145 - BlogBourne is closing? Oh! OK! That's what the buzz was about in the other community. I did not know. Well let me go get my one article from that site and put it somewhere else. Thanks for the update.
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@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
3 Apr 17
@cmoneyspinner I'm fine. Just getting my priorities all mixed up and wasting a lot of time online at sites that aren't really worth the bother. Once more I'm trying to sort that out - just closed my Blogbourne account after I heard they were closing anyway. Thankfully that was one site I never gave much time to.
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
3 Apr 17
I call it time management because it's assumed that an integral part of this responsibility / life skill is determining what your priorities are and planning your "To Do List" accordingly.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
17 Apr 17
@cmoneyspinner Do you live alone? My husband and I are retired and he spends lots of times on the computer playing games. I keep trying to find paying jobs as I worry about the bills more than he does.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
18 Apr 17
@cmoneyspinner I would love to know some of the games to play for money. I would like to get him started on one or two. Thanks for telling me this.
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
3 Apr 17
I have never heard of him until the quote I received in the eMail.
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@AmbiePam (120598)
• United States
3 Apr 17
@cmoneyspinner Well, my dad is a pastor, so maybe that's why I know his stuff so well?
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
4 Apr 17
@AmbiePam - There's a lot of well-known people I've never heard of.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
4 Apr 17
In my opinion,the “time management” is understood to mean that we should make the most of time.Even though time is beyong our control, we can do our best not to waste time.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
5 Apr 17
@cmoneyspinner I agree with you."Tomorrow is never clear,our time is here."However that doesn't warrant our being recklessly wasteful of Nature's bounties.
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
4 Apr 17
So many things in life are beyond our control … our time, our health, our kids, etc.
We can try to eat well but there's not a guarantee we'll have good health. But should we still not try to eat healthy?
We can not predict our child's future. But if we are blessed to have children, should we not have children, raise them well and hope for the best?
We don't know if we will wake up each day, but we make plans just the same to hopefully make wise use of whatever time we have been given.
Time, health, children, etc. are all blessings not to be squandered, wasted, misused or abused.
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@RasmaSandra (97908)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Apr 17
That is the one thing that I have the biggest problem with. Managing time. How can you manage time when the clock keeps ticking? It is more like juggling and even then I never come out ahead of the game.
@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
4 Apr 17
For sure, I'm certain that was Mr. Maxwell's intent. It's the specific terms that can strike a chord with people and drive a point home like hammering a nail. “Choice words are like apples of gold in pitchers of silver.” – King Solomon
The thing is that his quote struck a chord in my brain and sent me in the direction of the epistle to the saints at Ephesus. Hey! I said “random thoughts”.
(Love this free image pic of the gold apple. It's not a silver pitcher but shared it anyway.)
(Love this free image pic of the gold apple. It's not a silver pitcher but shared it anyway.)1 person likes this
@JudyEv (381837)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Apr 17
@cmoneyspinner It's a lovely image. Thanks.
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