If you want to decrease your overall stress levels and increase your spare time, you must forget what all the efficiency and time-management experts say about time management and what you should do to be more productive. The problem with classic time-management techniques is that you still end up working ten or twelve hours a day, possibly being a little more productive, but still feeling burnt out and with not much leisure time.



Instead, adopt the following ten time-management insights from various people that offer both inspiration and a lot of wisdom for creating more leisure time in your life:

?If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.

? John Gage

?Remember that nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

? Arthur Balfour

?When you are doing something difficult, tedious, or extremely time-consuming, ask yourself what would happen if you didn't do it. If the answer is nothing, or next to nothing, stop doing it.

? From Real Success Without a Real Job

?One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem busily employed on things that are already done.

? John Kennett Galbraith

?If you're already in a hole, it's no use to continue digging.

? Roy W. Walters

?Never do today what you can do as well tomorrow; because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

? Aaron Burr

?The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

? Sydney J. Harris

?Choose one of these three ways to handle a task fast:

1.Do it yourself.

2.Hire an expert to handle it for you.

3.Decide that it isn't worth doing and strike it off your to-do list.

? From Real Success Without a Real Job

?Don't overdo things that shouldn't be done in the first place.

? Unknown wise person

?Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

? Robert Byrne

?Learn to distinguish between these three:

1.Some things need doing better than you or anyone has ever done them before.

2.Some just need doing to get by.

3.Some are not necessary; they don't need doing and are best left to the misfits of this world to pursue.

? From Real Success Without a Real Job

The moral of the above time-management wisdom is straightforward: You can experience more leisure time and a full, relaxed, satisfying, and happy life today instead of fifteen or twenty years down the road. Tens of millions of people in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and many other countries have such a life.

Contrary to popular belief, however, a lifestyle with plenty of free time is not based on being a multi-millionaire. A full, relaxed, satisfying, and happy life is achieved by simply choosing it even though the vast majority of Americans don't.

Above all, forget about classic time-management techniques ? clearly, they don't work.