Imagine you had a bank that credited you with Rs.86, 400 every morning. You would have a freedom to use as much of this money as you like. But there would be just one condition – at the end of the day, whatever balance is left will simply be taken away. What would u do in such a case? Obviously make full use of all the money.
Sadly, most of us don’t realize that this is what we must do with time. Every day has 86,400 seconds that you can use as you like. An ordinary, common person tends to waste most of the time he has for unimportant things. For achieving one must learn time management. In one word, time management is prioritizing.
All the things that you do in the day can be divided into categories on basis of urgency and importance. The four categories thus derived would be.
Urgent and Important: Jobs which are really close to deadlines – like submissions of projects, test preparations – you have no choice but to do these important things.
Urgent but not important: Any task that you HAVE to do, though not important because if you don’t do it now, the time to do will be gone. Like answering a door bell.
Not urgent but important: Tasks that are to be done by some distant deadline, like doing a project by the end of vacations.
Neither Urgent nor Important: Watching TV, Computer games, chatting on phone and any other tasks that you tend to do just for passing your time.
The essence of time management lies in devoting maximum time to the not urgent but important task are handle! One should understand and importance of work and remember to allocate time last to the neither Urgent nor Important category.
So now immediately make a list of all the things that you do in the normal course of the day and classify them in these different categories. Now you know where to give time to!
Sadly, most of us don’t realize that this is what we must do with time. Every day has 86,400 seconds that you can use as you like. An ordinary, common person tends to waste most of the time he has for unimportant things. For achieving one must learn time management. In one word, time management is prioritizing.
All the things that you do in the day can be divided into categories on basis of urgency and importance. The four categories thus derived would be.
Urgent and Important: Jobs which are really close to deadlines – like submissions of projects, test preparations – you have no choice but to do these important things.
Urgent but not important: Any task that you HAVE to do, though not important because if you don’t do it now, the time to do will be gone. Like answering a door bell.
Not urgent but important: Tasks that are to be done by some distant deadline, like doing a project by the end of vacations.
Neither Urgent nor Important: Watching TV, Computer games, chatting on phone and any other tasks that you tend to do just for passing your time.
The essence of time management lies in devoting maximum time to the not urgent but important task are handle! One should understand and importance of work and remember to allocate time last to the neither Urgent nor Important category.
So now immediately make a list of all the things that you do in the normal course of the day and classify them in these different categories. Now you know where to give time to!
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