<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" title="Chris Widener - motivational speaker" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/chriswidener-07.jpg" alt="Chris Widener" width="110" height="135" class="alignleft" />Most of us know how to manage our time. It is pretty simple really. What most of us miss are compelling reasons to manage our time. We know the &#8220;how&#8221; but miss the &#8220;why.&#8221; Here are six foundational reasons I have that motivate me to manage my time and myself properly.</p>
<p><strong>1. It is a matter of stewardship.</strong> I view my life as not my own. I am merely a steward of it. I am given control over it for some 70 years and I should make wise decisions with it! This is a great sense of responsibility that compels me to manage my time. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2010/10/six-foundational-reasons-for-managing-your-time-by-chris-widener/" title="Permanent Link: Six Foundational Reasons for Managing Your Time by Chris Widener" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":269,"date":"2010-10-07T06:27:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T11:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2015-07-06T22:31:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T03:31:49","slug":"six-foundational-reasons-for-managing-your-time-by-chris-widener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2010\/10\/six-foundational-reasons-for-managing-your-time-by-chris-widener\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Foundational Reasons for Managing Your Time by Chris Widener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chris Widener - motivational speaker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/chriswidener-07.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Widener\" width=\"110\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Most of us know how to manage our time. It is pretty simple really. What most of us miss are compelling reasons to manage our time. We know the &#8220;how&#8221; but miss the &#8220;why.&#8221; Here are six foundational reasons I have that motivate me to manage my time and myself properly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. It is a matter of stewardship.<\/strong> I view my life as not my own. I am merely a steward of it. I am given control over it for some 70 years and I should make wise decisions with it! This is a great sense of responsibility that compels me to manage my time. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2010\/10\/six-foundational-reasons-for-managing-your-time-by-chris-widener\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Six Foundational Reasons for Managing Your Time by Chris Widener\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}