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When the topic of better "time management" comes up, many people's eyes glaze over as they mentally prepared to be bored by a conversation full of dull techniques, forcing yourself to do things that aren't natural for you and maybe things that just aren't fun for us to do.

Sure all of those things can and do work, but at what cost? Wouldn't it be more fun to learn other ways of improving your time management that cost very little in terms of time and mental discipline? Let's skip those "Brute Force Time Management" techniques and instead try something easier.

Buckminster Fuller (or "Bucky Fuller" as he was called by his friends) is reported to have said "Environment is stronger than will power". Sounds smart, doesn't it? Consider this. If you're out of shape and want to improve your health, how hard would that be to do if you're locked in room full of delicious sugar cookies. On the flip side, how easy would that be to do if you lived inside of a fitness center? Pretty easy don't you think?

Most people don't even stop to think about their environment as they go about trying to improve their time management skills. I think the idea of creating an environment to support your productivity and time management success is something to consider. Try something here for a minute and see what you think.

Sit for a moment and see what you see in your work space. Choose five obvious elements in your work space and pose yourself the following question "Does what I'm looking at right now help me reach my productivity and time management goals or get in the way of reaching those same goals?"

If the element you're looking at doesn't support your time management efforts, eliminate it from your environment right then and there.

If you're honest with yourself, you probably have a few easy things you can eliminate. Televisions sets are famous for being a major distraction. Beyond just distracting you for a moment, they also entice you to keep watching for hours upon hours, thus making it much hard to get your goals accomplished for the day. If there is a television in your workspace, get rid of it right away by disconnecting it or even relocating it to another room.

Something as simple as a messy pile of papers can also distract from your productivity and ruin your time management efforts. Realistically, how can a messy desk support your goals? Aesthetics aside, having a pile of papers makes it hard to find the important ones and can even spill over onto the floor, causing further loss of productivity as you have to clean them up.

I used these two mundane and simple because they are easy to understand and get the point across. The basic idea is to get rid of anything your work space that doesn't help you reach your time management goals.

Of course after you remove distractions and non-supportive elements, your next step will be to add elements to your environment that actually support your time management improvement goals. We cover more of that in my other articles.

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