Welcome to the Art of Self Management: Self management for unruly souls.
Here I want to share my thoughts about what it looks like to manage oneself.
Successful companies are well-managed ones. Companies that are well-run tend to succeed whereas those that are not tend to fail.
To manage a company well means
- to hire the right people to run it and work within it
- to consistently produce and high quality product or service that people want/need
- to ensure assets and profits are maximised whilst debts, liabilities and losses and minimised
- et cetera
If this stuff isn’t in place, a company will most likely fail. Companies that do well manage all aspects of their company and product tightly and precisely.
If this is true for a company then what about the human being – me and you?
If companies need to be well-managed in order to succeed, surely we also must need good management in order to suceed.
The problem is no-body is going to come and manage us. We can’t hire a top life/success coach to run our lives for us. We have to do this ourselves.
Some people are naturally good at self management; others are not. Those who are good at self-management succeed in many things in life and those who are bad at it fail.
This is the point that really interests me and what I’m trying to explore.
I have realised that I am very bad at self management. But I want to get better. Because being bad at self management leads to failure – in many things, over and over again. But, as we’ve established, being good at it, leads to success.