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                                               劉偉澍 於 2006

Work Life Balance and Time Management

We are always busy,

So how to make the best use of our time becomes very important.

Some friends asked me, I have a full-time job at Ford Motor Company,

How can I also teach at National Taipei University as well? 

How can I go aboard for overseas travel frequently? 

How can I have time for activities like TTC table tennis club, BBC basketball club? … etc. 

May be part of the reason because I am still single and I have more free time, but how to use our limited time effectively do make difference.

Just give you one example, on weekday I need to work full time at Ford Lio Ho, on weekend Saturday for example, I still wake up 6 a.m. in the morning, in addition to watering plants and flowers, feeding two birds; I will take care of the house keeping in the morning, teach 3 credit-hours in the afternoon and watch HBO Saturday night movie in the night.  Every year I will use my annual leave and plan two or three trips for overseas sight-seeing, … etc.

When I teach "Time Management", instead of talking a lot of time management theories, I summarized it into only 4 Chinese words "輕重緩急".  First I will consider which thing is more important 先輕重?  Second I will consider which thing is more urgent 後緩急?  先輕重, 後緩急 so we have a priority of the things we do. 

We can apply the principles of business administration into our daily life and make things more effective and more efficient.  And I am doing that for myself.  For example,

• I went to 2006 Taipei Auto Show, I spend the same time with other people, but after the visit, I wrote some words and put my JPG photos into a powerpoint file to share with my friends.  And I got a lot of responses from my friends.
  
• I went to American Chamber of Commerce to listen a speech of "Taiwan Economic Outlook for 2006".  I took some notes from the speech and wrote an executive summary to share with my colleagues and my friends. 
  
• Last year I made 3 public speeches, one for "Zest for your Life", one for "The Finance Role in Business today" and another one for "Brand Management".  I made the same speech 3 times on the finance role in business today, one English speech for NCKU IMBA international students, one at Ford dealer meeting and one for the business school, National Taipei University .
  
• I went for an overseas trip, after the trip 1^st I wrote a trip report, put my photos and edited it into one or two albums; 2^nd an magazine or radio interview was arranged; 3^rd after completing 10 travel articles and then compiled it into a travel book. 
  

  We are doing the same thing, but I think we can make things more meaningful and much more productive.  From just a sight-seeing can become a travel article or eventually a book.  This is the self-accomplishment to enrich our own life.  And we can do it better. Life is too short and we need to manage our life adequately.  (by David W. S. Liu at 2006 Chinese New Year)

  
  

  I still find each day too short for

  
  

   All the thoughts I want to think;

  
  

   All the walks I want to take;

  
  

   All the books I want to read; and

  
  

   All the friends I want to see.

  
  

   

  
  

  人生三點  (網路資訊)

  
  

  放開一點、簡單一點、單純一點；集滿三點，就會開心一點！