Practical time management for busy people

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Discover How To Pack 8-Hours Worth of "Work" Into Just 3 Hours - Even When You're Currently Procrastinating, Constantly Interrupted and Feel Like You're Not Getting Anything Done…

Have you found yourself eager to get going on projects, then fizzle out and abandon them long before you get to enjoy the results (and the income you'd gain if you could just finish them)?

Are you feeling stressed all the time because you have way too much to do (and you keep procrastinating and feeling even worse as the week goes on)?

Do you have trouble sorting out your To Do list into what’s important and what’s not, constantly missing the big picture and the path towards tangible accomplishments? Is this making you feel overwhelmed, always trying to do everything and then accomplish nothing?

In this letter, I’m going to reveal to you one of the best ways to step on the treacherous path of achieving more by working less.

But before I do that, let me introduce myself.

I'm Bogdan Vaida, a former stressed, full time busy person turned stress-free time management trainer.

Starting from university (though I had some symptoms before), I suffered from what I now call unbalanced Kime. (Kime is a Japanese word which in karate means focus).

I had trouble staying focused and keeping my projects on track. No matter what the projects were, I kept abandoning them. When I was little, I tried doing sports. I started tennis, judo, karate and basketball… everything .. for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks it was like I had an internal clock that told me STOP!, let it be.

Procrastination was my worst enemy .. I always procrastinated. I remember trying to go to the gym (motivated by my girlfriend to get rid of some nasty body fat). Success!! I was able to go for .. 1 month (basically I doubled my results)..

.. only to postpone it for the rest of the year

.. until my membership card finally expired.

I was never a patient person, whenever I started some new project I was very enthusiastic .. but somehow, once my enthusiasm went away .. so did my results.

After leaving college after a first college semester where, interestingly enough, I had aced all exams that I was really into but failed all the others (dem’ mathematics). I realised this had to change.

I started reading some time management books, applying some of the things I learned in my life..

Well .. it wasn’t that bad .. but I had to read a lot and very few techniques applied for my particular situation.

So .. read more I told myself.

I immersed myself into everything productivity related. I participated in forums, seminars and even took some coaching lessons.

Suddenly, my life was becoming enjoyable again. I entered another college (keeping my scholarship to my final year), took dancing classes, 2 jobs and I even had the luxury of free time.

After passing through hundreds of techniques, I realized what was working for me. I adapted the generic things I learned about on the internet and I personalized them into techniques that gave results.

Then I shared these with Dan, one of my friends waiting for his big heartfelt ;thank you’..

But no, the techniques didn’t work for him!

I’ve spent days trying to help him but what I shared with him was actually what was working for me.

And then I got it!

I needed to fine tune each technique for the specific person who was using it. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution!

So I took all that I learned and developed a system that was fine-tuning these somehow “generic” techniques to the specific person that’s using them, an expert matchmaking system.

.. 10 years later:

I offer busy people the opportunity to find free time and to create a balance between their personal and professional life. I do this by teaching productivity principles and techniques specific to their personality using experiential methods.

I am the founder of the most prominent time management resource in Eastern Europe and author of The Ultimate Time Management Guide For Workaholics.

For the last 8 years I’ve been traveling around the world holding trainings where I’ve created environments for people to learn through doing. I’ve held trainings in Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and a few other Eastern European countries and my online courses have over 7000 happy students.

During all these years I came to identify 4 productivity bottlenecks that prevent people from developing focused productivity and achieving their goals. I noticed that once people can put their finger on the issue, the solution comes naturally to them and they keep applying it until the bottleneck disappears.

Let me prove my point here.

When you have trouble staying focused and keeping your projects on track,

And when procrastination is your worst enemy and your internal alarm clock buzzes 5 minutes before the deadline..

You suffer from unbalanced Kime. (Kime is a Japanese word which in karate means focus).

We usually have some techniques to help alleviate the problem. One of the most successful ones is having a 25-minute interval of focused, productive work, followed by a 5 minute break. This starts the process of educating your brain to accept a specific interval of time as *work* time.

But there’s almost always a larger issue behind your unbalanced Kime and if you’re not going to correct it, it will get from worse to worst.

You need to solve this before your whole life goes out of balance. I know so many people that had unbalanced Kime and in my early days as a trainer I must confess, I had quite a bit of trouble helping them. I spent days and nights to try and figure out a solution. And found it I did!

Next comes The Zen Curse.

The Zen Curse is exactly that. A curse that prevents you from reaching your zen state.

You crave patience and having time to sit and breathe but somehow things happen and you never find time for it. You are anxious and in a hurry and life tries to overthrow your plans and send you in disarray. Unexpected situations appear and it’s so hard to slow down and take a breath ..

Being in a hurry all of the time is one of the worst conditions us as humans find ourselves in. It impacts both our bodies and our minds. Stress is evil! And learning how to be patient and get rid of all the “bad” feelings that come from the inevitability of fate is hard .. dem’ hard.

When you look at that empty calendar you’re not actually looking at free time. In fact, you are looking at occupied time that you have yet to identify. An empty calendar is actually a full day.

The Zen Curse is a state most of us go through from time to time.