 ఆండొనాచేతిమవ్ంచంసినాఏనించాని. ఆర౗యిండిమాంచానేసిచానింటింరి. అంటరంపౚింపిాంటమాటింటింటిటదాన౿ూటంచిడటి. about managing our time. I believe in that concept and I invest so much in making sure I make the best of my time. But as we all know, the world is changing at a very unprecedented rate and greatly affects our ability to manage our time effectively. There is a thing that movement is not always equal to progress. This is true because we all have the same number of hours in a day and do so much to ensure we come outstops with a result on daily basis. According to some Sabri Shubhi in his book, Sailor Like Crazy, being busy is not the same as being productive. Our lives are full of distractions and it's hard to stay focused when the world consists of hundreds of tiny tasks and millions of voices screaming for your attention. Again, the current jet age of the internet and social media make it difficult to manage time. So, we easily get engrossed, scrolling through several content which usually end up not producing the kind of result we had originally set out to achieve. On the other hand, deciding what exactly we want to do and focusing all your attention will lead to hitting goals faster than trying to use your time as a yardstick. And this is why I believe that we should channel our energy to manage the things we pay attention to instead of the time we all have, which will never change anyway. Today, we live in a world where we have the ability to achieve so many results. If only we can shut down all the external forces, constantly craving our attention. The truth is that you have in you right now all the resources, knowledge, skills and network we need to build, like in the Nigerian balance, right? But you are giving attention to the wrong things. That's the problem we have. You have believed that you have a low attention span so much that you are now scattering the one that you have and that is where the problem is. The fact remains that there will never be any significant results, paying maximum attention to the wrong things, never. Through research and studies, I have become more particular about the short attention span of human beings and that perspective taught me that perhaps the most critical factor is our ability to control the things we pay attention to. Perhaps when we start focusing more on the things we pay attention to, we may just need to worry less about the time we have to achieve all we need, we have. In the end, it will matter more about how well, talking about our attention and not how long, talking about duration. Life coach, this is where you call me the best strategist. Okay, so I think this is a very profound thought right from Raymond, you know. There's been a lot of conditions around time management and the attention management, of course. And it's not just about, like he ended with his thoughts, it's not just about how long, but how well. There's this Pareto principle, the 80-20 rule. The 20% of the work creates 80% of the result. So I think it's the ability to find, I always say that being busy is doesn't amount to productivity. You can be busy and not productive. So it's not that I'm busy. What are you busy on? Being able to find out what are the important things in your life that creates the highest impact and then shifting your focus on that. I think time is living its life, right? Time is just moving, doing it. Or if we say, oh, I didn't do this because of, I don't have time, oh, I have time. Time is living its life. So I think we should all also live our lives. So what we do is to pattern our lives according to time. By the time we're done with this conversation, the time would have gone beyond what it was now. So it's really about finding those high impact stuff and then zeroing in our energy on that. I think in addition to that, whilst we find the high impact stuff, it's important that we also remove or consciously remove the low impact stuff. Because I mean, there's the consciousness or there's an assumption that we feel like, okay, once I'm focusing on the high impact stuff, the low impact stuff are not just going to be there anymore, but you know you have to consciously tell yourself, I'm not going to do certain things. Sometimes it might even be as responding to certain males that are not urgent and important at the point in time. There's this chart that I remember being taught some time ago, urgent versus important. Yes, and so you pick exactly the four quadrant. So it's important to find where you play at any point in time and understand the activities that you do that will help you yield the results that you want in life. Because at the end of the day, like Raymond mentioned, we have just, time would never change. It's going to always be 24 hours every day forever. So we just have to learn to maximize that 24 hours that we have in a day to achieve whatever it is we want to do. Just before it later turns, it's sorry later to call in. So everybody said in all my training sessions, I'd always say that when we were born, we had 24 hours, right? And our job description was just to maybe cry, sleep, eat food. And then we grew further. You know, the JDR, they were running around for our parents and all the stuff. We grew further, we went to school, have to be more responsible on all those days. Yeah, within the same duration, within the same hour. Yeah, within the same hours. So our time never increased. So here's what I got from the intelligence there is that, you know, to be more effective in life, we need to be more efficient. And efficiency is doing more with less time. We're going to give you more time. Exactly. Because we don't know how to do more with less. Sure. I see we all read the same literature. You quoted 8020 Lu from Brian Tracy's book. You also quoted OJNC, the Quadrant OJNC important, not important on all the things. Well, what I'm going to say is that we should always learn to work smart, not necessarily hard. First things first, there's the obvious waste of time. There's some people that actually sit down and do nothing. Perhaps engage in on-products, but if that one is very obvious, I want to come to the software experts. The software experts, there are some people that are actually doing something good, which is great. If they don't do the one-foot on their table. But the mannerism in which they go about it is sapping a lot of energy, one and taking more time. It's not efficient. So it's up to them that they are working hard. And as I said, saying that, goes that if you do what you always do, you get what you always get. And every day they keep moving in cycle. Every year they keep doing this thing with sweat and toy. But no growth. But yeah, they are doing something great. And if they don't do it, perhaps their family will not feed. But then they have to be subtle about it. That's where smart work comes in. How can I introduce some other mannerism? It could be maybe some machineries or delegation or some things you need to subtly engage. Or maybe there is some aspect of the work you are doing that you think you should not do again. Because the outcome is not reasonable. So these are things you need to consider so that you have enough time to do less and have time to rest. And also think about something like that. I think for me, just quickly before you wrap up, I think again, the thing is also not really about the time we have. It's more about our clarity about on what we need to do with the time that we have. Most like two people have two hours to finish a job. One person has to shuttle or try to multitask and know around seven things at the same time. Which is fantastic if you have that ability. But I can assure you that one person who zeroes their minds to do one thing at a time will have increased focus, will have increased energy and will automatically come out with a better result more than the person and in lesser time. He will finish the seven tasks in lesser time. More than the person who was shuttling down and doing this and doing that all within the same time interval. I think people should release their focus or more on what we put our attention on. Not about I need to achieve this in two hours. No, this is what you need to achieve You need to achieve this and you need to achieve this and you need to achieve that and not the duration that you need to achieve them and you think is if you start thinking in this manner then we will start spotting the things that sap our time, that eat into our time because immediately you want to press your phone. Your subconscious reminds you that this is not what you should be paying attention to. Railman, let me just add this before you go. There is this quote from Brian Tracy. I love so much from Itadafro. He said, there is no need of budging, don't worry about tadpoles. When there is a life-big frog waiting to be eaten, think about that. A life-big frog in the place you need to swallow the frog and you are bothered about tadpoles. When you swallow the frog, you are just going to be okay. The tadpoles will not actually sort at the same time. He mentioned something around attention. Do you want to talk about that? Exactly, I was going to say something around that. So, it's important that I mean there is the saying that women more tax better than guys, right? So, I tend to multi-tax. I'm not going to ask you about that. But in the pace of multi-tax, you have to understand that if I have two hours to achieve five engagements or five tax, I must ensure that for whatever one minute or two minutes or five minutes I have to give to a particular tax and doing it without thinking of something else. I have to be focused. Yes, less of a focus, exactly. I have to be focused and ensure that I am able to deliver within that short space of time. And then I can spread it alongside. Because you are here, you are doing well work. You are chatting on the phone. And the beautiful thing is now that we all work laptops and all, you have your WhatsApp web, WhatsApp web, Telegram open, everything all at the same time, exactly. And so, you will be responding to messages while you are typing a mail. You just brought a powerful woman that you are. And in most cases, it affects the quality of our work. Exactly, exactly. Very true. You know, attention span is really, really, really dropping. So Raymond, that was really a very thoughtful stuff because again, people go on Instagram and they are scrolling very fast. So attention span is really, really reducing. Again, there is this field of marketing that talks about once you can control people's attention, you can control their emotions, then you can create that trigger to buy from you. I can't even control their perception, life, everything. You have to buy people's attention. So you need to wake up and buy your attention. You need to buy people's attention. Exactly. And that's why brands, so just to buy attention of people, you know, on perception. Engaging videos, influence, stuff like that. So they helps manipulation too. Of course, at the end of the day. Well, that's because it doesn't take time. But at the end of the day, you can make me buy what I never wanted to buy in the first place. So that's why I was motivated. OK, so Raymond, yeah, you can close that. All right. Root is next after the break.