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Time
is the most precious and important commodity in our life. We have to just
know it. Generally people believe that ‘Time Management’ is to
complete our task on time or going to school, collage and office on time
and discard at closing time. But the time management is not these things.
It is holistic system and process that can make all area of our life more
balanced and fulfilling.
Time
is slipping from our hand just like grains of sand, it is impossible to
return it. The people who use time wisely from their child-hood they get
the good return and they become rich, productive and have the good life.
So we can say in simple word - ‘time mastery is life mastery’.
Generally
we are telling, ‘I am busy I don’t have time’. We have attended many
time management workshops/ seminars and still we are not able to manage
the time. We know every one in this earth have 24 hours only whether we
are in India, USA, UK or Australia. People like A P J Abdul Kalam, Mukesh
Ambani and Kumar Mangalam Birla, you and me - we all have 24 hours
allotted to each by nature. We can see the high productivity people are
highly efficient with their time.
We
have to protect and guard our time. We can say time is non-renewable
resource. Most important thing is our personal, social and spiritual
development. We should spare some time to develop these things and keep in
our daily agenda book. You know this simple act is the secret to balance
our life - by focusing on these most important aspects in our daily
routine schedule. It leads to our life of meaning, peace and happiness.
The
ancient rule of twenty says that eighty percent of the results we achieve
in our life come from only twenty percent activities which are done only
by time management. If you think just two minutes on this rule you
automatically able to see that this is actually real.
After
understanding the importance of time, the question that comes to our mind
is what are the ways and techniques by which we can value our time. These
techniques are:
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Prioritize.
It means to do the work according to the importance of the work.
Example: You are general manager of XYZ Company and you have to manage
3 meetings on same day and same time. Like one meeting of Staff,
second of HR meeting and third is foreign delegates. Then obviously in
same time you can’t arrange three meetings. So you have to choose
which meeting is most important. In our case hypothetically let’s
say foreign delegate meeting is more important. So we have to manage
our work accordingly its importance.
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The
very important point is that don’t let others steal your time. This
thing is often occurring in our daily routine. Suppose you are doing
you work and your friend comes and says, “Please join me for tea for
2 minutes.” So he has broken the link of your work and also stolen
you time. So we must take care of this.
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If
you want to be master of time you have to cultivate the habit of
saying NO. Someone truly
said that said that one NO in life will give you the power to say YES
for the big things.
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Generally,
we are all using our cell phones. It is not necessary to receive all
the phones which come. Time is money and you are losing precious money
by attending to apparently ‘free incoming calls’ by attending many
unnecessary calls. Cell phone is for your convenience not for
others’ convenience.
I
hope this small article will force you to review regarding how you are
managing your time. If it helps in improving your utilization of time, I
will feel rewarded.
With
inputs from “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari” by Robin Sharma
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