Time Management - LESSON - 2
Everybody is given 24 hours a day – be it President of a country or a beggar walking down the street. You cannot use tomorrow’s time today. Nor can you carry forward today’s time to a future day. That means, as far as time is concerned, everybody is equal; everybody has equal opportunity to make use of or waste his allotted time. Unfortunately, time doesn’t get its due importance. What we fail to recognize is that time is more important than money. Because, we “sell” our time to earn money. In other words, our income depends upon the utility of our personal time. When I say “personal” I mean those 24 hours in a day which only YOU can use and not the free time which you spend during weekends or holidays.
Perhaps, the assumption is that an hour has 60 minutes and the time span of 60 minutes has the same value in each of the 24 hours. If you just think about this for a few minutes in a calm way, you’ll see that it is far from truth. A ten minute time span in the morning rush hour is not the same 10 minutes when you are returning home in the evening. Or, for that matter, 10 minutes spent in waiting for your bus does not have the same value as when you’re savouring your favourite halwa. Again, while the happy time spent with your family brings you joy, the same time span may upset your mood when your boss pulls you up for not completing the task. Now, if you closely observe you’ll see that time can be evaluated in two different ways:
1. Time used for earning.
2. Time used for yourself and your loved ones.
Every single minute that you spend can be classified under one of the above two categories.
Now you’re ready for Lesson 3