Maria Lin: Time Management: How To Get More Out Of Your Day

Then we turn around and spend hours watching bad TV we're not even that interested in. Or 45 minutes on the phone with customer service fighting a $5 charge. Or years in a relationship or friendship we stopped feeling fulfilled by long ago.

But I'm convinced it's not for a lack of good intent that we often end up treating time as our most fungible asset. (Hey, there's plenty more where that came from, right? Well, not really ... ) I think we simply get too busy to think about it, or don't think we have the resources to make more time in our lives. We do have the resources, though. All it takes is a fresh look at how we really spend our days, hours and moments.

I've been thinking about time as a tangible asset not unlike money in many ways, and about ways to invest our time to yield higher returns -- better memories, more hours well spent, even minutes that nourish us instead of fly by. After much research, experience and reflection, below are what I found to be the seven best investments you can make with your time. Think of these as blue-chip time investments that can't go wrong -- and that will yield high dividends for a more fulfilled life.

Invest In 'Life-Extending' Time

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Investing time in caring for your health is an obvious one that will certainly yield you more time, literally -- in days, months, if not years tacked on to your life. Yet we often take our health for granted until we experience a wake-up call. Proactively invest your time in your health by eating well, exercising regularly, getting plenty of sleep and regularly seeing your doctors. Invest heartily in those non-physical markers of well-being as well: emotional, mental and spiritual health -- you will reap many hours of well-lived life from them. Learn the habits of the Blue Zone people, from the regions in the world where people live the longest. Some common lifestyle traits they share? Building in natural movement and activity, lowering stress and being part of a faith-based community.

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09:46 PM on 11/30/2011

For me one the good tips in spending the time is by knowing the goal first. If you know your goal clearly, you will have a clear direction about what you should do in your day. The goal tell you about any tools or help that you will need, the goal inform you about any people that you should meet or talk, the goal tell you about any skill or knowledge that you should know, the goal tell you the methods or system that you should employ and the goal also tell you about any place that you should go.

Your time is one of the critical resources in achieving your goal. That is why it should be manage and use base on the need. The goal create the need of your time and enable you to see the time precious.

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