Ultimate Techniques For Time Management

Now You Can Take Control Of Your Time!

Accomplish the goals that you have always wanted to, but thought you didn't have the time for, without sacrificing time for anything else you are currently doing.

Now go on and enjoy yourself, dance to your heart’s
content and win the Prince’s heart. But remember, you have to be
back before the clock strikes twelve at midnight.”
We all are familiar with the words of the Fairy God Mother
in the evergreen fairy tale ‘Cinderella’. It’s these words that
probably made us aware-for the first time in our lives-of the value
of time. We all sympathized with Cinderella when all her splendid
gown and other finery turned to rags at the stroke of midnight. Our
first acquaintance with the villainous Time!
But then, is time such a villain, who should always be
painted in black? We have heard the proverb that says “there are no
wounds that time cannot heal.”
Here of course we get the image of a wizened old woman who
comes hobbling up to us with a pitcher full of balm and gentle
fingers that soothe away all our pains and sorrows.
But that’s enough! This book was not written to eulogize
time. There is no need of the romance of Cinderella or the soothing
finger of an old lady when we are talking about time. And do you
know why? It’s because we do not have the time for it.
We are going to try and understand time in its many faces.
No, I was not referring to the faces of watches or clocks. I was
referring to the many meanings that time has. Oh yes it does! You
thought that time meant the same to everyone. Well think again; or
maybe you could try to explain the logic behind the following
cases.
Picture a farmer who plants a sapling of a tree that would
probably take ten to twelve years to reach the stage when it would
start to bear fruit, by then the farmer would in likelihood be under
the soil himself.
Picture a jailbird in bird counting on the bars of his cell
waiting for the seconds, minutes, and hours, days, weeks, months
and years to go by before he can be free again.
Now picture a young couple madly in love with each other
cherishing the few minutes they get to spend with each other every
day, cursing time because it flies so fast when they are together and
never the other way round.
So what does time mean to you?
When was the last time that you realized the value of time?
The answer is probably the last time you watched one of
those Hollywood thrillers in which the hero is driving a car in
which a time-bomb has been planted and the hero is unaware of
this. But we being the getting-to-see-it-all audience watch with
bated breath as the tiny needle of the timer ticks towards the point
at which the explosion is sure to occur.
But just before that, the hero hits the brakes screeches to a
halt to avoid hitting that old lady crossing the road. And when he
jumps out to help her cross the road the needle reaches the point
and the bomb is exploded. And our hero is safe. It’s funny how the
hero always escapes without a scratch in these movies. But I expect
that’s why they call them heroes.
Now we are really transgressing aren’t we? So back to our
subject that is Time Management.
Do you know what is interesting about the concept of
Time? It is absolutely uncontrollable.
Personally I believe that there is something very humbling
about this concept. Just imagine, man with all his power is just like
a helpless babe before time. There it is Time stands tall and strong
before man and man remains vulnerable and weak before it. Man,
the big strong man who tamed rivers and seas, who reached out to
the skies and beyond, who harnessed wind and water and dug up
the bowels of the earth is but a worm before Time.
The best he can do to win the battle against time is die is
hair and use some anti-wrinkle cream on his face. In fact, the
closest that man has got towards conquering time is those many
history books that have been penned; they are of course chronicles
of events that happened long ago and that is certainly not much to
boast about.
And so now we come to our subject that is time
management because after all the illustrations given above, I hope
that I have made one point clear, that is that Time cannot be
controlled, it can only be managed. And that is what we are going
to do. We are going to learn the art of time management. I don’t
want you to have an air of helplessness. You might begin to feel
that if the battle cannot be won, then what is point in putting up...