Time Management In A World Short Of Time
July 13, 2008
When you are busily rushing through life with a thousand things to do you may not consider what is the most important thing in your life. The most valuable commodity you will ever possess is your time. Nothing else comes close and you cannot put a value on time. The richest man in the graveyard would give everything in exchange for the time you have.
If you had no more time then none of these things are of value any more. If your life were to end right now the value of a car or your home means nothing. Your pension may be of value to others but for you the game is over.
We have all sat and watched a TV program and after maybe an hour thought, ‘Why did I waste my time watching that?’ Doing that once is understandable but many of us do it night after night and week after week. With our time so limited surely we can make better use of our time than to throw it away like that?
Time gives us the ability and the opportunity to enjoy life and build and enjoy relationships. We can spend quality time with our families and get enormous satisfaction from that time. We have to work to feed ourselves and our families and that is a valuable thing to be able to do but how much of our lives should we spend working just to buy a new TV or some useless gadget?
Most decisions in life are a compromise. We have to make a judgement between alternatives and we forget about the time things take. If you were given a choice between having the latest gadget but losing 3 days of your life which would you choose? The offer is never made in such a way but if you have to spend three days working to get that gadget then that is effectively what you are doing. Giving up time for a gadget.
Your life is ticking away. None of us knows how much time we have left. It could be many years or it could be just minutes. We simply don’t know but whatever amount of time we have available we owe it to ourselves to use it wisely. Using time management techniques in our personal lives can help just as management of time is valuable to business.
Those people who do understand that learning time management can really help them make the most of their lives generally lead happy and rewarding lives. They may, or may not, be wealthy but they know the value of time. Other who do not understand run around in circles always struggling to keep up with the constant demands on their time.
Most people have only ever thought of learning time management for business purposes but in reality it applies to life in general. The better and more satisfying use we make of our time the happier we will be. It will probably make us more successful too with all the benefits that can bring.
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