At the time, he was spending the week in California filming MASH and commuting home each weekend to his family on the East Coast. He responded that on the flight home he consciously forced himself to shift gears from being an actor to being father and husband. But he felt that if he didn t make this effort, one responsibility would meld with the other, and neither would be well-served. Many successful executives establish firm rules for meetings, giving each person a time limit. Others find it more productive to be flexible in the way they attack each day.
Time is something to be molded, like putty, to our advantage.
We have to decide to use our time productively. We have to be committed to this goal. So much of our time is wasted because we allow it to be. Think of the hours we spend standing or sitting in line at banks, airport check-in counters, toll booths, doctors offices, the Department of Motor Vehicles. Too many of us accept those situations as wasted time, but they don t have to be.