Welcome to the Heartfulness Webinar!!

Welcome to the Heartfulness Webinar!! Host: Lakshmi

Heartfulness Institute – a non-profit organization registered in USA It offers simple practices of relaxation, meditation, regulating the mind, and building inner strength and attitudes for over-all well being. It offers various “ Connect” programs:  U-Connect initiative

 C-Connect and G-Connect programs  Special programs for socially challenged situations  Conscious living programs for school-age children

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This webinar will be recorded, and made available at a later date.

Presenter: Dr. Anthony Cullen, B.A., M.A., LL.M., Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, Middlesex University, London. His research interests focus mainly on international humanitarian law, international human rights law and the development of foreign policy in these areas. He has been practising Heartfulness meditation for 18 years and it has been a huge source of inspiration for him.

Defining ‘Time Management’ ‘ … “time management” is really a misnomer - the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.’ ◦ Covey, Stephen R. (2004), The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (New York: Free Press), p. 150.

Defining ‘Time Management’ ‘Whatever we do we cannot stop the clock. Since we can make better use of time, we are led to the conclusion that “time management” is really a mode of “self-management”. To get time under our control there are no magic tricks, only a small number of techniques which help us to form good habits of time management.’ ◦ Lewis, Harry and Hills, Philip (1999), Time Management for Academics (Norfolk: Peter Francis Publishers), p. 19.

The Power of Habit ‘Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual’. ‘… the fact is that our virtues are habits as much as our vices. All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits,—practical, emotional, and intellectual,—systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be.’

William James (1842–1910), philosopher and psychologist

The Power of Habit ‘The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.’ ◦ William, James (1899), Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals (New York: Henry Holt and Company), p. 67.

William James (1842–1910), philosopher and psychologist

Non-Efficacious Use of Time Issues that impact negatively on use of time ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦

Procrastination Lack of prioritisation Continuous fire-fighting Disorganisation Lack of review, self-assessment

Eisenhower Decision Matrix

Efficacious Use of Time Things that facilitate better use of time: ◦ Keep a ‘to-do’ list. ◦ Decide clear priorities. ◦ Plan use of time. Maintain a calendar. ◦ Concentrate on the task at hand. ◦ Review use of time regularly. ◦ Allocate and protect time for purposes of personal development.

Deciding Use of Time ‘Surrendering to your inner awareness ... and its intelligence and practicality in the worlds you live in, is the higher ground. Trusting yourself and the source of your intelligence is a more elegant version of freedom and personal productivity.’ David Allen, author of Getting Things Done

Deciding Use of Time According to Stephen Covey, it is the exercise of independent will ‘that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them.’ ‘The degree to which we have developed our independent will in our everyday lives is measured by our personal integrity. Integrity is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves. It’s our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves …’ ◦

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (New York: Free Press), pp. 147-148.

Levels of Review David Allen’s aerospace analogy: • 50,000+ feet: Life

• 40,000 feet: Three- to five-year vision • 30,000 feet: One- to two-year goals • 20,000 feet: Areas of responsibility

• 10,000 feet: Current projects • Runway: Current actions

Meditation and Time Management Strengthens ability to focus ◦ Develops capacity for concentration ◦ Supports creative thinking

Fosters self-development ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦

Cultivates introspection, self-examination Review of goals Self-assessment Indirectly encourages reflection on use of time

Provides an opportunity to transcend experience of time

The Power of Thought

‘As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.’ James Allen (1864–1912), author of As a Man Thinketh

Avoid wasting time: Focus on priorities

Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari (1927-2014)

‘There is an old saying that anything in this world can be recreated but not time. You can lose health, you can recreate it; you can lose money, you can make it again. But time passed is time lost ... time is limited, therefore the most important thing must be done first, the second important thing second, the not important thing not at all.’

Useful Sources ◦ Allen, David (2001), Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-free Productivity (London: Piatkus). ◦ Covey, Stephen R., Merrill, A. Roger, and Merrill, Rebecca R. (1994), First Things First (London: Simon and Schuster). ◦ Tracy, Brian (2002), Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers). ◦ Harvard Business Essentials (2005), Time Management: Increase Your Personal Productivity and Effectiveness (Boston: Harvard Business School Press). ◦ William, James (1899), Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals (New York: Henry Holt and Company). ◦ Bannatyne, Duncan (2010), How to Be Smart with Your Time (London: Orion Books).

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