Time Management

Time is something that you can lose and never get back. People are always wishing they had more hours available in the day. The solution to this common problem is easier than one might realize. With a few minor adjustments in how you utilize your time you can change how you manage your time. Proper time management is something that can change your life on a fundamental basis for the better. Every daily cycle consists of a twenty-four hour period. This is one of those things that is what it is and cannot be changed. Even though you can’t control time, you can control how the time you have is used. This realization is the first step to being effective in your own time management. It is important to take stock in what is important in your daily life and focus on allotting time for these things. Anything that is non-important should be eliminated. Developing skills to effectively manage your time will bring forth improvements to your life on a dramatic scale. You must be accepting to making fundamental changes. You have to learn to prioritize and take things one step at a time. Chances for failure increase when you take on more than you can handle or when you take on too much at one time. Developing time management skills will also help you get to know yourself a little better.

This is the first step in proper time management. As people age, it becomes much easier to lose track of important things in your life. It seems crazy that humans allow this to happen, but it is something that happens really easily. The first thing you must do is get in touch with what it is you want to accomplish from your life. This is the point where you locate your vision. When people are young, they believe that anything is possible. Think back to your younger days and remember how you envisioned your life at that time. It is likely that many of your priorities have changed since then, but some of the core ones will have remained the same. Begin by focusing on the things you want to achieve. Pick something big and something small. After you have decided on what those things are, take steps to formulate a plan that can set you on a path to achieving these things. Completing one step toward each goal is an excellent start. By going at your own pace, you begin to plan and manage your time much more effectively. Planning is key to mapping out the direction in which you should head.

Our life is like a bubble, a short morning dream. Therefore, we should take good care and make the best use of it. In other words, we must understand the value of time. Time management is basically planning and dividing one’s time in a constructive way.

It is a fact that if man takes care of his minutes’ then the ‘hours’ and ‘days” will take care of themselves. It is said that ‘Time is more precious than money’. This is because, money lost in business or otherwise, can be gained or earned again. But time once lost, can never come back.

We all grow in time, live in time and ultimately, perish in time. There may not be an exact definition of time, but we all know what it is and its great value in a person’s life. A man has a lot of wants. We all want fame, success, money, happiness, love, etc. There is no end to our desires. However, only a few are successful, prosperous and happy. These few are the ones who realized the value of time. They made the best use of their time and attained an enviable position in the society.

People, who made effective usage of time at their disposal, got the best

from time. But those who forgot the value of time found to their utter dismay that it was harsh on them later.

In other words, successful persons use time in the best possible manner to achieve their goals. Most of us waste our precious time in unnecessary things such as gossips, roaming-aimlessly, grieving over the past blunders or day dreaming. It must always be kept in mind that, Time and tide wait for none. Time can be spent wisely or foolishly. The choice is ours and so are its consequences.

Life is not a bed of roses. each and every one of us has to face a number of problems in life. We have to be bold and courageous enough to face them. Problems are faced by men of courage only. Escapist always avoids problems. Had times teach us a lot? They prepare us for a prosperous and glorious future. If difficult times arrive, they would prepare us for a better life. We would be able to handle problems in future with more maturity, stability and courage.

Basically, time and opportunity once lost can never be recovered. The flow of time is ceaseless and eternal and we all are like small insignificant particles in this endless and continuous flow. Time is eternal and endless but human life is very limited, finite and short-lived. Hence, successful people make the best use of time in their lives. A word done is time earned. A decision taken at an appropriate moment can work wonders.

Hence, let us strike the iron when it is red hot.

A proper use of time means the right use of an opportunity. As a very popular saying goes – ‘A stitch in time saves nine’. As opportunities in life are few and far between, so is time precious and limited. Those of us who miss an opportunity or waste time, have to repent all our life. This implies that we must be punctual, disciplined and regular in our work-schedule.

One should inculcate the habit of early rising as one can complete a number of takes before the day has even started. For this, once must never be plagued with lethargy and bad habits. Some of them are sleeping late at night, laziness, passivity, remaining glued to the television or addicted to certain drugs. etc.

To conclude, it is foolishness to think that we can make up for the lost time. There is a popular saying that ‘the past is dead and the future is unborn’. There are no tomorrows and yesterdays. It is ‘today’ which is important. Time is very powerful. It has more power than the mightiest of monarchs.

For they come and go, but time remains forever, without an end or a beginning.