Time management refers to effectively managing your time so that the right is allocated to the right activity. In today’s world, everyone is so busy. We all have 24 hours in a day, but everything cannot be completed in a full day, so there is a requirement of time management. Time management is required for every person whether he is a student, a doctor, a lawyer, a pilot or a chief. Time is very precious and is for everyone. So, we should not waste time.

Importance of time management

Time management and discipline are interdependent. If you want to be successful in life, then you need to manage time properly. According to Ayurveda to live a healthy life, everything must be done on time. This is possible only by working time. To manage personal social and professional lifetime management is a must. Automatically, this will give a happy life to a person.

Time management in students’ life

If a student manages time, then he will able to complete his homework and school assignments on time. By working time, students can give time to some sports activities too; this will reduce pressure on students and make their mind fresh. Time management reduces workload. Proper time management helps a student to help his parents in households work. The student will also get time to watch shows as entertainment is also required.

Importance of time at the workplace

Time management is highly required in the workplace as needed to manage projects efficiently and effectively. There will be no mental pressure if all works get completed before the deadlines, and there will not be any workload. Productive work requires proper management of time. Less time and more productivity will boost the confidence of an employee.

Reasons behind wastage of time

Social media

Not only students but also other people waste their time on social media like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. They spend hours scrolling the timelines and keeping eyes on the stories of people. Social circle is required, it helps a lot in getting the latest updates and knowing about new trends if used judiciously but spending hours on it for no use is just wastage of time.

Gaming

Youngsters play games on a mobile phone for a long time will not only lead to waste their precious time but also affect their health, especially brain and eyesight. Entertainment is also required but giving more time than needed is not suitable for anyone. These can be considered as minor tasks and also replace mobile games or pc games with physical games like football, volleyball, cricket, basketball which will not only make a positive impact on their health but also increase their stamina and immunity. Instead of giving so much time to them, a person should gradually do one little job after another.

Overthinking

Overthinking or stressing on some unnecessary things which are out of our control leads to wastage of time. Overthinking not just waste our time but also put our morale down and bring a lot of stress in our lives. So, instead of thinking so much starts planning. If a person stops to over, think then he will come to know what is essential. So priority can be given to crucial things on time.

How to manage time

There is a need to prioritise things according to their importance in his life before making a manageable schedule. There is a need to divide time according to the market to complete the given tasks. Time management is not only required for essential works, and even one should divide time for each and everything. There is a requirement of time-division for professional deeds, social life, personal life and sleep as well. So one should manage one’s time by considering everything.

As we know that hard work is key to success along with hard work time management equally, play a vital role to make a person successful. If a person does his job on time and also hardworking, then he will get success. Time management with hard work is called smart work. And the person who knows how to manage time is smart enough himself to perform task calmly.

Time must not be wasted should be appropriately used; it is very precious is. If a person uses time properly, he will not face any problem and will solve every problem quickly without any pressure. It is very accurate that the more time we use, the better results will be. If time is wasted, then it ruins our life. Time management makes a person stronger. If a person is healthy, then his time will also be substantial. Every work is essential so don’t leave auspicious work on tomorrow.

Our life is short, but there are plenty of tasks to get performed. So proper use of time is a must. Someone said correctly that lost wealth could be regained by hard work, but if time passes, it cannot be retrieved at any cost. Time is like running river which cannot flow in a backward direction. Any precious thing can be bought with money, but even money cannot bring lost time. So instead of regretting, it’s better to manage time. And work according to your schedule.

time management by prioritising them

Time management is not as easy as it seems to be. Everyone goes through two pains, one is the pain of discipline, and other is the pain of regret. The discipline pain is temporary and fruitful, but the regret pain longer and eternal. Proper and disciplined time management helps a person keep going towards success. But those who don’t manage their time and don’t make an appropriate table of time they will always in the habit of putting things on tomorrow. These kinds of people are going to taste the flavour of failure. From a gold medallist sport’s person to a billionaire, behind every successful person, time management played a significant role.

Tips to Manage Time Easily

Time is as vital as breath in our life. So we must not ignore it and make use of time by managing it properly. Money is not as important as time, so it should be handled correctly and with extreme care. All-time management begins with planning so plane your schedule and try to take maximum advantage of time. So, some tips for managing it properly are as follows:

  • Make a to-do list daily and complete small tasks straight away rather than putting them off for the delay. This will encourage you to be tackling larger tasks needing attention.
  • Break difficult or ‘boring’ tasks into sections. This will allow you to approach an enormous task a series of manageable parts.
  • Don’t try to finish your task in one go. Take breaks between it will help you to get back the energy you had lost, and your output will have more efficiency.
  • Make a list of your tasks and prioritise them according to their importance. And it will be better if they will be arranged in terms of the time they need to get completed.
  • Sleep early, wake early is also an excellent approach to use most of the time. It will keep you up to the schedule, and you also don’t have to suffer from sleeplessness.

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Time management lessons from Bill Gates

We all can learn how to take advantage of time management from the world’s richest man ‘Bill Gates’

Take advantage of the snippet of time: Bill Gates always keeps a book in his hand so that he can read it in between the meetings or whenever he gets time.

Take your time seriously: Bill Gates says the only thing on Earth that money cannot buy is time. If the world’s richest man says it you better believe it and start making plans. We also learn that time must be managed on a minute based not on hours, days or years based.

Structure your time: One thing is straightforward that if you want to get things done, you need to structure your time. Bill Gate’s day is planned for him in a style of US president on a minute by minute basis. Every day time management needs to have a clear structure and transparent plan.

Parkinson’s Law

Parkinson’s law states that “the work expands itself to fill the time granted for its completion.”

You all might have experienced that most of the students complete the entire syllabus in a day just before the exam for assignments a night before the deadline. The reason is the more time we have, or we get, the looser we become.

Some Famous Quotes on Time Management

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

Zig Ziglar

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”

Michael Altshuler
“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.”Bruce Lee

“You may delay, but time will not.”

Benjamin Franklin

“He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.”

Victor Hugo

It is effortless to waste time, with that it is also easy to make use of it. But wastage of time can be stopped by managing time properly. Give a proper amount of time to a particular task. If we give more time than required for a job, then it is called wasting time. More time can be made every day by not wasting time which one do has. Importance of time can be justified by one line that is “If you waste time, time will waste you”.

Time does not mean passing minutes, hours, days or months. Time refers to the continued progress of events that happens in our life. Time waits for no one is an age-old belief, but that is true. Time will keep going whether one likes it or not. Time cannot be reserved. We can regain health by medical science or by doing exercise by time cannot be brought at any cost. It shows time is strong and powerful than everything in this world. So time make us self reliant and successful.

I conclude here with Paul J. Meyer’s thought “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.”

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