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YOUR PERSONAL IMPLICATIONS CHECK
You have now had the opportunity to inventory, diagnose, and compare your
life’s time in both a real and ideal manner in the form of graphs and a cus-
tomized personal time inventory. You have looked at what is important to you
and how you are actually using your precious, finite time. You have reviewed
your most important values. Because of the tremendous time pressures when
assuming new leadership responsibility, most leaders develop discrepancies
or imbalances between what is most important to them and the way they actu-
ally use their time. Our desire to integrate our life is constantly taxed, espe-
cially when more than one area of high personal value is compromised by
work requirements. Your Personal Implications Check examines the interplay
among the various aspects of your life, consistency between ideal and real use
of time, and your most important values.

Worksheet: Your Personal Implications Check

Step 1. Review information from your time graphs (Figures 10.7 and 10.9) in
terms of key information as well as important discoveries.

Step 2. List at least three points that you like about how your life is presently
structured and how you use your time. State them in the form of concise state-
ments beginning with any of the following sentence stems:

I am aware ____________________________________________________
I realize ______________________________________________________
I am pleased that _______________________________________________
I am clear that _________________________________________________
I plan to continue ______________________________________________

For example:
■ I am aware that I have been able to pay a lot of attention to my children.
■ I am happy that my wife and I have continued our Sunday morning time
together.
■ I am pleased that I haven’t gained any additional weight since I moved
up to my new job.

Step 3. This is similar to step 2, but look only at what you regard to be nega-
tive trade-offs in your present lifestyle and how you use your time. Use the fol-
lowing sentence stems, and identify at least three issues.