Skip to main content

Importance of Time Management

The only asset that has been equally distributed to all human being is ‘Time’. Sadly its importance in life is not realized by everyone. But the people who utilize time fully are the ones who are leaders in their respective fields. In fact a good leader will have time for everything that is important to his enterprise.
 

The first step to utilize this fleeting asset is to understand time and how one uses it. The best way to do this is to have periodic time log. Time log will tell you specifically how you spend your time. It will also clearly show where you disburse time more than necessary and where you squeeze more activities due to paucity of leftover time.

 

Let’s take an example of the student giving an important exam. Often times we find the student who doesn’t score marks as per expectation is the one who is unable to make the best use of available time. He/she spends more time on some questions in the beginning. The later questions where adequate time is not available suffer and therefore bring lesser marks.

Likewise in life if we don’t prioritize and plan time; time does not give its full value. In fact a leader should divide his time for various groups of activities in the ratio as under.

Group A Routine Activities                                                       15 %
Group B Activities concerning ongoing projects                                                       25%
Group C Personal development, planning new projects and such enhancement activities                                                                    60%

Normally it is seen that routine activities takes 60%, ongoing project 25% and new developments only 15%. This is a serious flaw which the leader should correct by whatever it takes.
Some time ago I had read a novel named ‘Time must have a stop’. The characters suffer because time does not stop.

 

The lesson is learned but through a very hard way.

 

Procrastination and indecision are the two main culprits largely responsible for misuse of time. A leader obviously cannot afford to do this. Therefore he/she must be very decisive. Procrastination, word itself should not be available in his book. Prioritizing should be a matter of habit in all aspects of life be it work, home, hobby or social interactions.

Furthermore, everyone needs to empower himself/herself regarding management of time through training periodically.

 

 
Modern time planners.

Thanks for reading.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

20 ways to build your self-confidence!

Self-confidence is an essential part of humanity. A person with self-confidence generally like themselves, is  willing to take risks to achieve their personal and professional goals. Self-confidence is something that you learn to build upbecause the challenging world of business and life in general, can collapse it. Someone who lacks self-confidence, however, is less likely to feel that they can achieve their goals, and tends to have a negative perspective about themselves and what they hope to gain in life. Self-confidence is like learning to deal with any negative emotions. You should learn to set goals and take risks, as well, since meeting challenges can further improve your self-confidence. Why Need Confidence? Being confident about your strengths helps you draw courage and resolution when the going gets tough in life. It helps you to keep things in perspective and back yourself when everyone else says that the task ahead is nearly impossible to complete in the stipu...
Post a Comment
Read more

Five Ways to Enhance Self Esteem

Today we will discuss Self Esteem. What is self esteem? How do we know whether we have self esteem or not? And to what extent? What are the indications of self esteem? Like any other personality attribute it is very difficult to measure self esteem. However, the indications can be enumerated as under: Respecting yourself and being self aware. Not despising yourself for small mistakes committed. Having the conviction to handle difficult tasks. Not being afraid of people or adverse circumstances. Having the ability to stand up against injustice. Expressing yourself freely in any forum. Now let us discuss how we can go about developing our self esteem a critical aspect of the personality. 1. Being balanced: Don’t be a self critic: The first point in this segment is that you stop criticizing yourself. That does not mean you do not analyze your mistakes. In fact when you are too harsh with yourself, your assessment will be prejudiced and of little use. ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Storytelling and Public Speaking

We all know that storytelling has assumed a great importance today. I have use the word storytelling deliberately so that you may disagree with me at this stage. But if I say, presentations in the commercial world today has become necessary, you will surely agree with me. Because, that exactly is the reason why you are here. These presentations are nothing but persuasive speeches which can be effective only if it is told in an interesting fashion; only if its treated as storytelling. The facts alone do not interest any audience. Facts clothed in interesting stories do. About 2500 years ago, Aristotle, the Greek philosopher wrote a book about persuasion. It is called The Rhetoric. The Rhetoric is still a classic par excellence on the art of persuasion, on the art of Public Speaking. Among other things, it talks about three important factors of an interesting speech. These are: Pathos, Ethos and Logos. Before I talk about these factors and explain them, let me also emphasiz...
Post a Comment
Read more