Manage Your World by Managing Time

We understand value of any source when we face shortage of that. For instance, a very poor person has more value of hundred rupees as compared to a wealthy one. Assume that we have five hundred litres water available and there will be no water supply for three days, will we continue to use water lavishly or use it sensibly, a unanimous answer will be sensibly. Same answer will be about the time as a source when we have shortage of time. Most of times we never care about consuming our time sensibly but when we have any emergency, we understand the value of even smallest particle of the time – seconds. So, we need to manage our time with planning.

First step to manage time is to know our tendency to spend time on various tasks and activities e.g., eating, sleeping, work study etc. & detect involvement in time waste activities or work. The major time wasters are excess sleeping, games, internet, social media, excess TV watching & other unproductive works. Lack of objective, planning, attempting too much at one time, attempting unrealistic work, personal disorganization, poor filing or data management are the factors which lead to poor time management. For a successful career, one has to manage time and follow the planned schedule. Time management is not only necessary in professional life but also in personal.

Next step for time management is to plan a schedule on daily, monthly & yearly basis and task should be arranged on the sequence on necessary, important, urgent & emergency basis. One who has to board on flight in next two hours should not give importance to dropping children at school, so work should be assigned to other in such cases. A successful manager needs to find the worthy time required to accomplish a particular task and should not go beyond that. Do not leave any work incomplete otherwise that work will be accumulated in your pending jobs and will affect your schedule ahead.

Identify & remove the barriers emerging in accomplishment of a work or assignment & create a buffer time to it. Never hesitate taking advice from any expert. Do not do dissimilar multiple tasks at one time however similar tasks can be bundled e.g., while going to a particular place for official or personal reason, identify the tasks which can be done simultaneously or parallel.

So, we need to act on time to be organized and adhere to the planned schedule. Identify the necessary by not important, important, urgent & emergency tasks & prioritize according to very urgent, urgent, important & necessary. If not acting timely, necessary becomes important & reaches to emergency, so accomplish work according to priority. All materialistic things can be achieved through efforts & money but time is a resource which cannot be recalled once passed, so most important to spend our time as most valuable source with us.