When my dad died suddenly over 2 weeks in 2014, I became very aware of the shortness and frailty of life. I decided to protect my time more, say no to things i care less about and yes to people and projects I do care about. It was easier than i thought. Here's 2 tips I learnt about time management

TLDR: Time that has passed will never come back. 100% calendaring is my first answer to time management. Most important projects / people / activities goes into the calendar first. Anything else that isnt as important has to wait or not even go in at all.Everyone's "importance" are different. Mine are family, self time, exercise and freedom. I know that i dont need to start a facebook or have tens of millions in my bank account (though that'd be nice lol) - you need to know what's important to you, and do more of what's important.The biggest 2 things i learnt:Schedule everything. Sleep, exercise, reading, church, rest / slack time, everything - the more details that went into the calendar, the better. It made it easier to focus and to say no to things that dont fit my goals (business, relationships or social) or the time.Important stuff goes into calendar first. frankly not everything is important, and not everything can be done. This is #2 key realization. i have to just choose the best 3-4 things in a day to focus on. this also meant saying no to many events that were not critical or important.A business example - as we cant do everything, we have to choose the most important tasks to do, and most of the time, it's the few core important ones such asrevenue generation. even within this, there are good clients (less work, more revenue) versus bad clients (high maintenance, stressful ones...be it high or low revenue). I dont want high maintenance ones.process flow. instead of taking 10 steps to do process X, can we cut down to 8? or 6?Once this "viewpoint" of best-bang-for-buck comes in, it becomes a natural filter to go into the calendar and scheduling, and its one of the best things that id learnt.Here's a video with 3 more tips / lessons to manage time if you enjoyed thisPS: I still miss my dad lots though. Love you dad.About me: I’m an average entrepreneur, dad and husband who is fascinated with marketing, leadership, entrepreneurship and creating a life and stuff that matters. These videos and posts are a fun project for myself where I share about what I'm thinking about or cool stuff I discover. see hubwealthy.com/wealthy