Director
To attain great heights of success, you will need to know how to direct your thoughts, ideas and ultimately your actions to a greater purpose. Your inner "director" does this when you make use of it. This is no psychic trick, but a repeatable strategy that will help you to manage your time more effectively and use your efforts to their greatest efficiency.
It's no good having great ideas if you don't put them to good use. By directing your time and your energy into the right channels, you will be able to use those ideas in the best ways possible to bring about effective results. But exactly how do you do that?
Directing Your Time
The time that you have allocated to you in this life is finite, so you had better start making better use of it if you haven't been doing so already. While time can't truly be managed, you can manage yourself and the things that you do each day. I talked about scheduling your tasks in the article on how to schedule yourself. But directing your energies into putting that schedule together is a different aspect of pretty much the same thing.
The best way of getting anything done is to write it down in a list that you can cross off as each item gets completed. You can either do this in a simple list or you can allocate a set amount of time to each task and then hold yourself accountable for completing each task within the time limit that you have set. Of course, you may not always be able to accurately assess how much time a particular task will take, so some guess work will be needed. But for most things, you know yourself and your capabilities and limits and so can set a pretty close approximation to each task.
Don't Waste Time
The worst thing you can do with your time is to waste it. There are so many things that you can do in this life and by making good use of your time to push yourself into doing them, you will stand a much better chance of realizing your dreams and improving your lot in life.
Time wasted is something that you can never retrieve, because it's not something you get on loan that you can squander and then take back if you decide later that wanted to put it to better use! Every minute is precious so maximize those minutes and use them to improve yourself daily. You'll be glad that you did when you get older and realize that you have a lot less time than you did before!