Anyone know the ancient response?

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If you bored, type in “time management” in your favorite search engine. You can spend hours—days rather—reading about how to manage your time. You will probably uncover the not-so-secret, almost cultish, “Getting Things Done” (or GTD as the enlightened ones refer to it).

Once you start down this road, you’ll find yourself scrambling to gather file folders, expensive notebooks, and of course software that syncs with every digital device imagineable. You’ll spend hours fine tuning your “system.”

There is a lot to be said for being organized, and I am not knocking anyone for using some popular methodology to try to become so. But, I when you frame the solution as being time management, it sounds like time is this chaotic, out-of-control, and needs to be tamed.

Time is quite the opposite.

• It is consistent
• It is reliable
• It never misses a deadline
• It doesn’t call in sick

So if it is not time that needs to be managed, what then? Or rather, who then?

The answer is you. And, me. There is a phrase for managing yourself—self discipline. Along with it are concepts such as delayed gratification, perserverence, hard work, focus and a plethora of other phrases that don’t pave the road to the best seller’s list.