Learning How To Manage Our Time

Time is the most valuable asset because we can never get it back. Entrepreneurs and other people in diverse fields always remind us to get the most of our time. Since we all care about the future, we live in the present and we take good care of it by being productive with our time so that we can reap the reward in the future.

Managing our time has always been difficult. It requires a lot of discipline and courage to hold on our priorities. There are many distractions around us that deviate our attention. This distraction also leads us to lethargic actions which commonly result in procrastination.

Procrastination is our enemy because even when we are having fun, we cut it out in the middle of our joyful moment. Moreover, we sometimes make up excuses and justify procrastination.

Time to be productive

Be productive is the most important thing. Sometimes people are reprimanded because they attend to an event late. But these people can be more productive than others that usually arrive on time. I am not excusing people that don't try to be responsible and arrive on time if they promise to. But there are cases when someone who arrives on time practically does nothing while other are highly productive.

This can be seen in education. Some students get to class on time. But they don't show the will to work while other students might arrive five minutes late and contribute a lot. They could even spend fifteen minutes in class and offer real value to the group.

Sadly the problem here is the perception. Students get praised for arriving on time, which is important, but such importance vanishes if there's no contribution at all.

Time to spare

There are moments of pleasure. Those moments when we do what we love the most. Naturally, we can enjoy every minute of our work, but most people have different hobbies. And the best time to practice them is through our spare time.

Thereby, when we're having fun, we need to forget about other unrelated things that cover part of life. This is the time to disconnect as some people say. We all need it because we should filter out all that stress that we amass every day.

So, it is highly imperative to do what we love. And at the same time we have to be determined about not extending that time because we have other priorities.

Controlling our time

One of the things that I've observed is that people get controlled by time. Though this may sound a little contradictory because in a way we are at the mercy of time, we can plan our days so that time doesn't dictate our living.

I've seen people constantly checking on the clock or always running because time is above them with a leash guiding them as if they were a horse. That's where you realize that you're a prisoner of time.

And in order to break free, you need to plan in advance what you will do every day so that you can be head of time. This takes pressure off your shoulders, and most importantly you don't feel as if you were always get carried all around.

@edave

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