Quickly and accurately targeting a priority allows for more time to deal with it. The million dollar question then would be “How do you know what the real priorities are?”

In order to know the real priorities an end goal must be held in mind. With this future situation in mind think of the activity you need to do. Does it really matter to the achievement of the end goal? Or is it a extraneous time eater you can do without?

This simple technique can save much wasted effort, and help one achieve far more with far less.

For this reason the priorities must be done first. All else is secondary. You can end the day with no accomplishments and a list of excuses, or you can end it with a list of accomplishments in the absence of excuses.

As in health, we know what we should eat, yet may not. So in finance. Schools teach many subjects, but many are not taught with practical application. Financial health is poor, and our bank balance may appear undernourished.

We know the importance of looking after our finances when we try to exist on a lack of it. Surviving on £20 a week is an instructive life lesson.

It is pennies that make pounds, and taking the time to plan and exercise a strategy for looking after those pennies is time well spent. Increased financial fitness will be the result.

The growth of shopping trolleys over the years and marketing methods used to influence people to consume more is well documented. This extra consumption only presents us with increased temptation to eat more.

Often the extra snack, or even meal, is not only extraneous to our body’s requirements, but also a waste of time that could be spent doing something more useful.

One affirmation I’ve used and found it to be  a great time saver is to only eat when hungry. If at the end of a long day I’m more tired than hungry I’ll skip having a late dinner rather than just eating to ensure I’ve had a set amount of meals per day. I’ve found late meals to be the one that adds girth to the waist more than any other meal.

This has the added benefit that I awake earlier the next day, with a good appetite for the most important meal – breakfast.

This is even more true in the current information age in which we live. The fabric of our interactions is tearing and stitching together in complex ways with many new threads sewn in place.

Re-skill, add skill, complement skills, whichever is most suited to your desired end, it’s all good.

With time we slowly lose the flexibility we once had, but the loss is gradual. So gradual in fact, that we may only notice the lack of flexibility when trying to do something we did a number of years before. Then we realise the gradual loss has accrued to quite a significant amount, such that we are now unable to complete the activity, or do so with increased difficulty.

With each passing day we lose a minute amount that the act of stretching will ensure we retain. Stretch each day and give the gift of flexibility to an elderly person – that is, to yourself in the future!

(A useful site with stretching exercises I stumbled into is http://www.thestretchinghandbook.com/ )

Hmmmm. Shaving every other day is sounds healthier as well as quicker the more I read about shaving foam.

Electric razor anyone?

In this video the stunt skilled driver displays how it can be done turbo style, with minimal fuss, and no to-ing and fro-ing. Forget parallel parking, this is the time saving method of lateral car parking. See how it’s done after the break…

(I love the info-graphics overlaid on that clip, awesome work!)