The phrase “time management” invokes fear, hatred, indifference and some other emotions in most of us. We feel that we are not automatons running from one activity to the other, while always keeping an eye on the innocuous yet powerful “time waits for no one” clock. Does time rule us? Is it God? Who is it to say that we ought to get up from our favourite activity of surfing the internet accompanied by chomping of chips, to hitting the gym, pumping iron, and sweating it out? Uff!
No, of course not. It is not God. But we have to keep this very important thing in mind. We are not going by the clock; we are attuning ourselves to achieve more in a short span of twenty four hours. Just stop saying the trite phrase “Where is the time”, the phrase which leads to more and more laziness around the world. To get more out of one day, divide your time (and be generous, very generous, to yourself) , between tasks which you have to do. Let us forget the priority part for now. In thinking of which task requires more priority, and which less, we lose a considerable amount of time. I believe that every task, whether important or not, at that specific moment needs to be attended to. Else, it becomes a nagging one, and eventually many such nagging ones pile up, and you are doomed.
So just make a neat to-do list on your cell phone or a piece of paper. Write each and every task and be sure to devote some time to tasks which were at the back of your mind, but didn’t dare do due to “lack of time” (Oh! not again)
If you want to read a book, or clean that shelf you had been thinking about for quite some time now, do squeeze in these tasks or passions. Devote half an hour at the beginning. And guys, one thing has to be done. You have to stop that activity when the time is up. Else, if you passionately go on with that book reading, all the other tasks would scream at you from your neat to-do list. At the end of the day, you complain to yourself, “that was the precise reason I didn’t read that book all this time!!” And you put away your favourite book with a heavy heart.
If you train yourself to stop and start your activities at the stipulated time, you will emerge a happier, calmer, and more accomplished person by your standards. You will see that you could do a variety of activities, and pursue your passions, in those 24 hours. And one thing, you will thank for sure, “the clock”.
