Talk about a work-in-progress. Long before my recent survey, I thought that the original problem that people had was that the quality of the available time management ideas was simply not good enough.
Based on the results of the survey, I am now quite convinced that the challenges that people have in upgrading their time management systems have nothing to do with the quality of the ideas they have learned from books, courses, websites, etc. Instead, it has a great deal to do with what happens once they learn the ideas.
Once the Period of Learning is over, there is a Honeymoon Phase during which people are able to sustain what they have learned. After a while, a few are able to continue making progress, while others fall off into continuing their old habits.
Here at the 2Time blog I have been able to create a set of flexible ideas that can help a professional to grow from one point to another in their career. No longer do they need to be stuck at any particular point, or in any system that someone else has created.
That turns out to have been a useful start.
It has been useful to the handful of people who are strong enough to take an idea and run with them.
Most people, however, don’t have that skill. Instead, the survey results showed that they find themselves in a peculiar place at the end of the book, course or whatever learning method they used. They have learned some new ideas, and are often turned on by them. (See the HoneyMoon Phase in the graph above.)
It turns out to be the phase just before the greatest failure for most people, in which they revert to the old habits that they have been using for years.
What can be done to help more learners overcome the failure rate, which I estimate to be as high as 90%?
This is why I’m now at the drawing board, looking for ways to fill the gap. I am hoping that if I design the MyTimeDesign 2.0 program from the survey results, that it will help.
Tune in for more of the actual survey results.
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