Use of time - The Holy Grail

Twice a week I drive to Campbelltown and back to lecture. The combined driving time is 3 hours per week or 42 hours over a 14 week semester. Rather than simply listening to garbage on the radio I have one of these great little gadgets that allows me to tune my MP3 player to the car radio and I use the time to listen to a number of audio recording that will, in my opinion, make me a better sport psychologist. These include audio books (try “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell), audio recordings of my own sessions to listen for ways to improve as well as sessions of Condor Performance’s other consultants. Arguably the most important mental skill of them all is how you use the 168 hours we have in a week and it is not surprisingly that so many of the ideas we pass onto athletes and performers are designed to improve the quality and quantity of TIME. Are you doing the right things, for the right length of times, in the right order, at the right time of day with the right people in the right way?