Creating a Consequence Evaluation
In the article entitled Fulfill Your Priorities, I advised you to schedule time for those things which are most important to you at the beginning of each work. However, at the end of the posting I also stated that such a scheduling can degenerate into self-management. In today's article, I want to focus on how to use the scheduling of priorities as a tool for developing personal integrity.
Integrity does not come from any tool or technique. Integrity is not like unto an animal's instinct. External teaching and external training are required in order for integrity to be developed. In a later article, we will discuss how external teachings are internalized. However, those external teachings do not force the individual to internalize that which is being taught. The individual may learn facts without being changed by those facts. But if an individual internalizes what he learns about the topic of integrity, then he/she can develop integrity within. Integrity comes from inside you.
Schedules are not internal. The person who uses a schedule for self-management enslaves himself to the schedule. He/She does a specific action because Boss Schedule commands him/her to do it. Schedules. therefore, are adhesive.
At the beginning of each week, when you are scheduling time for each of your priorities, you need to create a tool which emancipates you from Boss Schedule. I call this tool, the Consequence Evaluation.
Now, as you read those questions, you may consider them to be biased towards enslaving you to your schedule. But the fact is that used correctly, a Consequence Evaluation is a tool of liberation.
How does a Consequence Evaluation liberate you from Boss Schedule? We will discuss the answer in the next article.
Integrity does not come from any tool or technique. Integrity is not like unto an animal's instinct. External teaching and external training are required in order for integrity to be developed. In a later article, we will discuss how external teachings are internalized. However, those external teachings do not force the individual to internalize that which is being taught. The individual may learn facts without being changed by those facts. But if an individual internalizes what he learns about the topic of integrity, then he/she can develop integrity within. Integrity comes from inside you.
Schedules are not internal. The person who uses a schedule for self-management enslaves himself to the schedule. He/She does a specific action because Boss Schedule commands him/her to do it. Schedules. therefore, are adhesive.
At the beginning of each week, when you are scheduling time for each of your priorities, you need to create a tool which emancipates you from Boss Schedule. I call this tool, the Consequence Evaluation.
The components of the Consequence Evaluation
Why did I schedule this activity?
Why is this Important?
What would be the consequences of failing to keep this scheduled activity?
Would failing to keep this activity cause me to do that which is not RIGHT?
How will I feel about myself, if I fail to do this activity?
How will my failing to do this activity impact other people?
Now, as you read those questions, you may consider them to be biased towards enslaving you to your schedule. But the fact is that used correctly, a Consequence Evaluation is a tool of liberation.
How does a Consequence Evaluation liberate you from Boss Schedule? We will discuss the answer in the next article.
posted by Shewmaker on Thursday, December 29, 2005 Permalink
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