Time Management. Now that's a boring title.

Let's face it, we all have time management issues. And if you don't, you're in denial. So what are we to do about this? Let's break it down:

A completely non-exhaustive list of excuses, in no particular order:

1. "I have this really important thing to finish _______  (for work, for school, because the world is about to end next year and I must stock my cupboards with canned food in case I am the only one left in the entire world and am unable to break into the supermarkets...)."

2."I made a New Year's resolution to ______ (diet, exercise, spend more time with people who matter, clean the fish bowl more often, walk the dog, buy a fishing license so that I can fish when the world ends and there's no food in the supermarket because I ate it all...so much for that diet) so I'm avoiding working on that New Year's resolution because it's really hard and I figure I'll just start in two days when it's a new month...again."

3. "But my show is getting really good and there are only 300 more episodes left and I have to finish or I won't know what happened with John's baby and Pamela's mother's son's daughter's first cousin." (Don't you know that it won't matter next year because the world is ending on that one day in December or something? Shouldn't you be getting to the supermarket to buy canned food and batteries?)

4. "I'm waiting ______ (for the mail, my life to be less busy with other stuff that may or may not matter, for the world to end next year)."

5. "Somebody just posted something on ______ (Facebook, Twitter, my forehead), and it's like really super important and pertinent to my life! No, really! Seriously! Didn't you know the end of the world is coming and I have to stock up on all the knowledge about other people's lives and not actually live my own?"

Okay, I'm getting a little cynical. Better stop. All cynicism aside, how many of these resonate with you? *Counts all five fingers on the right hand.* And those are only five off the top of my head. *Sigh*

What are we going to do about this?

How to fix our time management issues, in no particular order:

1. Make a list. Check it twice. Then do stuff on your list and cross things off. Sometimes it's a lot harder than it sounds. Post it notes are also useful. Then you can crumple them up into a little balls and bounce them off people's foreheads into the trash. Or your own forehead.

2. Realize that you need to have priorities in your life, and you need to be one of those priorities. Make time for yourself, but don't get sucked up into four hours of TV watching somebody else's life.

3. Stop procrastinating. Seriously. Just stop. Go to that list you wrote and pick something off of it and do it! Sheesh. We are so terrible at procrastinating, aren't we? Terribly good, that is.

4. Ask yourself this, "Why am I ______ (on Facebook, watching TV, waiting for the mail to arrive)?"

5. Prioritize. Think about things. Do what allows you to have a fulfilling life and enjoy it with those important people who surround you.