Hi my name is Alan Stewart and I’m speaking with Monte Huebsch.

The man himself and we’re talking about AutoVation.

So Monte, tell me what exactly is AutoVation?

Well Alan, AutoVation as the logo shows is a merger of two words; automation and innovation. The reason we did that is we believe there is a synergy between taking repetitive and boring tasks in your life and automating them to give you more time so that you can be innovative. But even the process of automation is innovative in itself.

So when you say ‘innovative in itself’ can you extend on that?

When you consciously take an effort to analyse the activities in your life and figure out a way to automate those tasks, the first part of AutoVation that is an innovative step in itself, that’s something that is creative. You’re looking at ways to improve the ability for you to have actions in your life by removing mundane, repetitive and boring activities.

As far as time management goes, do you think that time can really be managed?

We’ve had this conversation in the past. I think time management and all of the gurus about time management are a bit of a ‘furphy’. Because in reality time is a process that can’t be stored. In other words you can’t save time. You can’t put it up on a shelf and have some. You can’t take some from today and have it for tomorrow. You can’t give it to somebody else. You can’t gift it.

So in reality time is not what is managed. What is managed is yourself - the activities and what you do can be managed. But time itself you can’t manage. If you ignore it, it just proceeds on. If you know it’s there, it still proceeds on. The outcome is the same.

So in reality it’s how we interact with the allotments of time or the fact that time is a process and proceeds on rather than manage it.

Okay, so AutoVation is about that?

AutoVation recognizes that all of your activities occur within the framework of time and consequently it can’t be ignored. You have to look at those activities relative to time. Time is a measuring tool.