Imagine you had a bank account that deposited $86,400 each morning. The account carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day.
What would you do? Draw out every dollar each day!
We all have such a bank. Its name is Time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever time you have failed to use wisely. It carries over no balance from day to day. It allows no overdraft so you can’t borrow against yourself or use more time than you have. Each day, the account starts fresh. Each night, it destroys all unused time. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, it’s your loss and you can’t appeal to get it back.
There is never any borrowing time. You can’t take a loan out on your time or against someone else’s. The time you have is the time you have and that is that. Time management is yours to decide how you spend the time, just as with money you decide how you spend the money.
Learning: It is never the case of us not having enough time to do things, but the case of whether we want to do them and where they fall in our priorities
It is a universal truth that all work consumes time and no work also consumes time. You should identify your priorities in life and develop a good strategy to work towards fulfilling it rather than wasting your time and effort on unnecessary aspects of life. If you do not plan where you want to go, you are unlikely to get there.
Time management does not solve your problems; it reveals them, and provides a structure to implement and monitor solutions. It enables you to take control of your own time – how you use it is then up to you. If you already know how you should be managing your time, but you still don’t do it, don’t give up. What you may be overlooking is the psychological side of your time management skills, psychological obstacles hidden behind your personality. Depending on your personal situation, such obstacles may be the primary reason why you procrastinate, have difficulties saying no, delegating, or making time management decisions.
Set short easily attainable time and work goals and note your successes in accomplishing the tasks. Just as life is precious, so too is time; yet often we spend time in meaningless activities.
Successful time management is being consistently productive each day. Writing down your goals the night before will enable you to plan wisely for the next day. Our subconscious mind focuses on that plan when you are sleeping and you will start fresh and focused on the most important tasks of the day in the morning.
Take care of yourself as a human being. Stop battling with time and look at time from a different perspective. Time is a resource and a tool to play with. You can choose to make it your friend and work with it. When you start to develop a reserve of time, you start to feel free. When you manage yourself, it’s permanent. It’s about developing and working on yourself as a whole person. You get to the source of the problem and handle it fully.