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“Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert these are perceptual illusions. Sensation is an abstraction, not a replication of the real world.” Vernon Mountcastle

Quote from YouTube Video: Kavli Prize Laureate Lecture – The Restless Brain

The Home Renovation Planner

Section 5 Time Management

We must use time creatively and forever realize that time is hope to do great things
~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~

 

Making the most of your time:
One of the common complaints is the mismanagement of the time needed to do the job, both underestimating or overestimating especially if you are doing a part of it yourself and you are fairly inexperienced. If you are doing the job yourself make sure you give yourself 3,4 or even 5 times the time it would take a professional to do it. To estimate the time a good way is to get a quote on the job at hand and ask the quoter to break the quote down into time and material. Then ask what he/she feels would be necessary for them to complete the job.

Dry wall repairs are a good example. It sounds easy enough but what may take you 4 or 5 coats of mud may take a pro only 2. Then every time you apply mud you have to wait 12-24 hr. for it to dry before you can sand and prime. All this takes time and causes your project to go on longer than you planned.

The principles of good time management are 1) Self management, doing the things you say your going to do. 2) Prioritizing, setting a priority on the tasks in order of importance. Take the time to plan this out before you spend one dime. 3) Goal setting which includes good planning. It has been estimated that good planning will give you a five hundred percent return on energy. You will benefit five times your investment of planning in what it takes to actually do the job. The goal here is to plan out the entire project on the Productivity Planner pages to follow. Starting with the research you intend to do, trade shows you want to visit, defining the job, developing the spec, on throughout the whole project.

Remember that you want to enjoy this project. You don’t want to be rushed or rush others for this is where most of the mistakes take place. Let’s take the time necessary to do the job right the first time so that you can enjoy all the wonderful benefits of remodeling and renovation.

Science-fact-theory-hypothesis

Definitions key to discussions:

  • Fact: A fact is a statement that is true and can be proved with evidence.
  • Hypothesis: A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon that can be tested by the scientific method. A hypothesis has not been tested.
  • Theory: Scientific theories are distinguished from hypotheses, which are empirically testable conjectures, and from scientific laws, which are descriptive accounts of how nature behaves under certain conditions. Theories have been rigorously tested and widely accepted by the scientific community who agree the theory best explains the observations or phenomenon we experience.
  • Scientific Method: The scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge.
  • Empirical Evidence: Empirical evidence is the knowledge received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and experimentation.
  • Reality: Reality is the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.
  • Delusion: A delusion is a belief that is held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.
  • Insanity: Insanity, craziness, or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.