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NEWTIME

New Time is designed as a result of a globally integrated world’s exponential speed of newly created technologies. New Time is a working perfection. It is the ideal transformation of time, conforming different time systems from those with borders to a singular system. A system that functions on a universal level.

The first change to the New Calendar begins with the average second. By changing the length of an average second from n = Second to n + .022221 = Second, each hour has an additional .57 minutes (60 seconds = 1 minute), giving the length of each day an additional 11 minutes. This forces the year into a simple 360 day cycle, eliminating the extra 5.25 days that deregulate the year. A day is translated and illustrated by 360°, the completion of a geometric circle and synonymous with days in the year. The day is broken down into quarters, every six hours = one quarter (90°).

The day broken up into four quarters instead of one half allows for increased flexibility in sleep time and a shorter standardized work day. For the optimization of jobs and hard-working time, it is normal for a work-day to take up 90 degrees of the day. This is beneficial to employer and employee of standard 90-degree jobs, and doesn’t affect self-employed or work-at-home cases.

The week has been adjusted from the 7-day cycle to the 6-day cycle for global and mathematical continuity. In mathematics, a perfect number is defined as an integer; the sum of its proper positive divisors, excluding itself. Six (6) is the first perfect number, because 1, 2 and 3 are its proper positive divisors and 1 + 2 + 3 = 6. The next perfect number is 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14. The next perfect numbers are 496 and 8128. Six is also the number of sides on a cube. Then, six is the number of inhabited continents, and the total number of continents if Eurasia (Europe plus Asia) is considered a single continent. The religious significance for the number 6 is important (discussed in The New Way), 6 is the number of days taken by God to create the world, and it was believed that the number was chosen by him because it was perfect. Saint Augustine (354-430) writes in his famous text The City of God:
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created all things in six days; rather, the converse is true. God created all things in six days because the number is perfect...
Religion goes on to proclaim that there are Six Cardinal Directions : north, south, east, west, heaven, and land. Finally, the number six is important in compliance with the new calendar because 6 hours is a quarter day, or 90 degrees.

The argument for this began at a time when productivity was at its peak – goods were overproduced and sitting on shelves – workers have an overabundance of down-time, the employee of the 90 degree day is challenged to do the same job in two hours less time. In the majority of large-company cases, the employers are then encouraged to hire at least two shifts of workers, creating more jobs. The same amount of work is outputted and he/she also works about two hours less a day.

The benefits of New Time include but are not limited to:
A universal time scale without confusion
Shorter work-days
An ease into solely functioning on “the net”
Elimination of disruptions of time (daylight savings time, etc.) due to light versus dark, which is, if even noticed, completely irrelevant.

New Time

provides information on the organization of time.

First, calculate how much money your time is worth. If you work for an organization, calculate how much you cost it each year. Include your salary, payroll taxes, the cost of office space you occupy, equipment and facilities you use, expenses, administrative support, etc. If you are self-employed, work in the annual running costs of your business.

If you work normal hours, you will have around 200 productive days each year. If you work 71⁄2 hours each day, this equates to 1,500 hours in a year. From these figures, calculate an hourly rate. This should give a reasonable estimate of how much your time is worth - it may be a surprisingly large amount! When you are deciding whether or not to take a task on, think about this value - are you wasting your or your organization's resources on a low yield task? Calculating how much your time is worth helps you to work out how whether it is worth doing particular jobs. If you have to spend much of your time doing low-yield jobs, then you can make a good case for employing an assistant.

To-Do Lists are essential when you need to carry out a number of different tasks or different sorts of task, or when you have made a number of commitments. If you find that you are often caught out because you have forgotten to do something, then you need to keep a To-Do List.

Preparing a To-Do List
The solution is often simple: Write down the tasks that you face, and if they are large, break them down into component elements. Continue to break them down until a task's completion is attainable within the allotted timeframe. Do this until you have listed everything that you have To-Do. Once you have done this, run through these jobs allocating priorities from A(very important) to F (unimportant). Once you have done this, rewrite the list in priority order.

Goal setting techniques are used by achievers in all fields. They give you long-term vision and short-term motivation. They focus your acquisition of knowledge and help you to organize your time and your resources so that you can make the very most of your life. By setting sharp, clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals. You can see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless grind. By setting goals, you will raise your self-confidence as you recognize your ability and competence in achieving the goals that you have set.

Goals are set on a number of different levels: First you decide what you want to do with your life and what large-scale goals you want to achieve. Second, you break these down into the smaller and smaller targets that you must hit so that you reach your lifetime goals. Finally, once you have your plan, you start working towards achieving it. Starting to Set Personal Goals. By setting up this structure of plans you can break even the biggest life goal down into a number of small tasks that you need to do each day to reach the lifetime goals.

Activity logs help you to analyze how you actually spend your time. The first time you use an activity log you may be shocked to see the amount of time that you waste! Memory is a very poor guide when it comes to this, as it can be too easy to forget time spent reading junk mail, talking to colleagues, making coffee, eating lunch, making your activity log, etc. Without modifying your behavior any further than you have to, note down the things you do as you do them. Every time you change activities, whether opening mail, working, making coffee, gossiping with colleagues or whatever, try to note down the time of the change.

Learning from Your Log
Once you have logged your time for a few days, analyze the log. You may be alarmed to see the length of time you spend doing low value jobs!
You may also see that you are energetic in some parts of the day, and flat in other parts. A lot of this can depend on the rest breaks you take, the times and amounts you eat, and the quality of your nutrition. The activity log gives you some basis for experimenting with these variables.

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Author and productivity guru David Allen helps people close what he calls "open loops," the running mental to-do lists that cause all manner of stress. Allen offers this advice for getting it done.:

Capture - Jot down every useful idea - shoulds, want-tos, and need-tos - whenever and wherever you think of them. Always keep pens and pads handy to take notes or you'll resist the process.