"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it."Richard Whately
Can you really make up for lost time? The numbers are against you on this one.
We hear people say, "I have to make up for today, I just didn't get anything done."We have said it ourselves countless times. A day passes and we just did not get done what we wanted done or simply feel that we didn't get enough things done, period. Either way, we fall back on the crutch of saying, "I'll just have to work twice as hard tomorrow, to make up for my lack of production today."
Is that possible? Working twice as hard the next day to make up for today? If that is possible, can we work three times as hard the third day to make up for two lost days? You can see where this is going.First of all, what the heck is "lost time". Did we lose time, or did we just not use it properly?
Time is made up of seconds, minutes, hours and days, all strung together. It's impossible to lose time. The next 5 minutes of your time will come and go, whether we use it to do anything or not. A unit of time is like an empty box; a second is a very small box, a minute is the volume of 60 small second boxes, an hour is a much larger box having the volume of 60 minute boxes and so on. Picture these boxes on a conveyor belt passing in front of you.
As these boxes of time pass in front of you, you have the option of jumping in and doing something or the option of doing nothing and letting that time pass you by, NEVER to pass by again.
Time is a finite, non-renewable resource. Once it has passed you by on our conveyor belt, that specific volume of time is gone. Yes, there will be another box of time directly behind it, and another and another, but there is an end to the conveyor belt, make no mistake about that. Our discussion today is the question, "Can we really make up for lost time?" I started off using the term "lost" in this discussion because everyone would immediately be able to relate to it. The use of the word "lost" is inaccurate. It should be, "can we really make up for misused time?" I hope we are past the point of thinking we somehow lost time, as if it will mysteriously appear again. We don't lose time. We do, however, misuse it and therefore waste it.
Hopefully we are in agreement that we should be talking about trying to make up for misused time rather than lost time. Using the term misused gives us a clearer picture of the issue in front of us. Going back to our example of the boxes on the conveyor belt, if we misuse our time on Monday, waste the opportunity too use those boxes of time properly, can we some how work twice as hard on Tuesday to make up for those wasted hours on Monday?
The answer is, hypothetically yes, in reality no.
?Hypothetically Yes. For the sake of argument, you work an 8-hour day; the work that should have been done on Monday will now be scheduled into the time boxes for Tuesday. You do Monday's work on Tuesday and Tuesday's work will either have to be done in additional time boxes, extending or adding on to the work schedule for Tuesday. Unless you are prepared to add additional hours on to Tuesday, you have no opportunity to do Monday's work on Tuesday. Tuesday only has a set number of time boxes. Remember, time is finite, it's not limitless. You have to do the work of two days in one. It is possible, but deep down inside we all know the road this leads us down.
?In Reality No. This is the answer we all should be arriving at. If you start to move chunks of activities that were not accomplished or done properly to the next day, what happens to the activities that you had planned to do that day? It's a snowball effect. You MIGHT be able to squeeze two days worth of activities into one, but what happens on the 3rd and 4th and 5th days? What you get is the situation most of us find ourselves in; rushed, stressed out, unproductive, and most of all, unhappy.
I hope this has given you something to think about in regards to how you use your time. Knowing that we can't keep doubling up on the day after the day when we just couldn't get our priority activities done or failed to be as productive as we would have been if we had planned a little bit better.
REMEMBER, We only get one chance to use those boxes of time as they pass us by; we need to make the most of every moment because we don't get a second chance at that unit of time ever again.
Time is the most cherished thing that mankind has. Every second that passes counts and we hold the complete responsibility to make sure; to use every passing second to our maximum benefit. People use their time and energy for time management and gather information and tips in order to effectively manage time.
Managing Time is not all that hard when you look at it at a deeper level. Time can be managed easily by sorting out things that are important and giving them priority in order of importance .In this way you would know your direction before making any plans and would not waste time and energy unnecessarily.
Now to know, what is time management? How to go about managing time and what type of information is needed to do so. Time management relates to the set principles of a person and system of decision making based on their conscious about their daily tasks that occupies their time.
Having set goals is the most important thing in time management and without this it's like walking blindly in a dark room and trying to locate the door for help.
Time management demands a set schedule that works best for you and in this way you will be able to prioritize your tasks based on the importance and pressing need to finish them in order of priority you set for them. In this way you will not waste your time in beating around the bush.
Lot of people are suffering from this common misconception that doing everything at one time would reap them more rewards .But these people who do multitasking at the same time usually end up doing less or nothing than what their capabilities are and the results their potential would have yielded if only they had planned well ahead of doing the task and managed their time well.
All of us live in a high paced world today and there are lots of things we get done in a short span of time where as earlier this was not possible .What we have to look into is ,are we getting the maximum benefit out of it or is it just finishing a task for the sake of finishing it.
We often try to tell ourselves that at least something is done instead of celebrating that something has been done and it has been accomplished well.
The aim of time management is to teach us feeling a sense of satisfaction after the task has been done and not merely a task has been completed. So it's important to enjoy what you do rather than just do without putting your heart into it.
Divide your time equally wile doing your work and do not leave any room for procrastination. Do not underestimate your ability or over estimate your potential to do a task, observe how much time is required to finish it in time.
Philosopher's say that man's main aim in this world is to search happiness, so our time management should also be based on this factor. Ultimately it's the feeling of sense of fulfillment we are looking for only to make us happy and give us the sense of being after finishing every task.
We are with very limited time in this world and we have to do every thing at the right time and do not postpone unnecessary for later if we want a life of fulfillment. It is not possible to do everything in this life but at least we can do most of it by managing our time the right way and do justice to the distance of sixty seconds.
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