Master your Time, Double your Success
Time Management is an essential success skill Practically
speaking, time is constant: 60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes
per hour, 24 hours per day, 7 days a week (24/7). However, the
usage of time differs among each individual. Some might give
time the capacity to control their lives, and others may find
themselves a slave of time. Some might have no time at all to
relax and create a stress-free lifestyle. But the bottom-line is
not to make time an enemy. One must have time to think of things
in order, to plan ways to minimize waste of time, energy, and
valuable resources. Effective time management involves patience
and practical thinking. Time and the natural changes in the
environment may be modified but, in the end, we should follow
the natural order of things. Remember "There's no day but
today." We should use tools and ideas that can improve our
efficiency in using time. Time is not renewable; and moments are
irreplaceable. A thing done or a past experience cannot be
recreated. However, we can expect these changes and prepare
ourselves for better or worse scenarios. We cannot control time
but we can make adjustments based on a given moment. Learning or
studying something to achieve mastery is one good example where
we can minimize errors or develop ourselves amidst the
ever-changing times. During this period of learning, we must
maximize the given resources (including time) to fully develop a
skill or to acquire knowledge so that by the time we need such
skill, we won't be wasting hours trying to figure things out.
One who is able to prepare for a number of possibilities upon
entering a situation may have more time to think of the moves
and decision to take to minimize the possibilities of errors.
Here are some tips: 1. Think of goals and aims as necessary
achievements. In achieving your desired goals, you should start
with a positive outlook. You must be excited with the challenges
and tasks that you have to do to give you the right start or
motivation. However, you should also see the path towards your
goals in concrete terms. These achievements or aims can be
reached by becoming realistic and by knowing your directions.
Think of the scenarios of success but you should also recognize
the fact that these roads have to be traversed in a given time.
This way, you are not only looking at the possibility of
success, but you are also giving yourself the right motivation
and the proper time to prepare for a fresh start and achieve
your goals at the soonest possible time. 2. Think of the time
frame in achieving goals and aims. You are to do a task at a
particular time. As you begin planning your strategies, you must
also look forward and recognize your time frames in doing such
tasks. Time frames are the periods you are giving yourself to
finish a task. These are just estimates or approximations since
you are not the sole factor that will contribute in finishing
the given task. Be wary of the processes in your environment;
for example, if you are to write a book or an article, consider
the time you are giving yourself for this activity in relation
to your environment. Finally, think of the flow of things or the
movement of time in your daily life as you move forward in
achieving your desired goals. Think of your other activities
that might affect the time factor in finishing given tasks. You
might be spending too much time on a very idle activity (like
too many late night parties or soir