TIME – THE BIGGEST PLAYER .

“Time is the wisest counselor of all” – Pericles

What is time:

Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. The S.I. unit of time is second, a year has 12 months i.e. 365 days, one day has 24 hours, one hour has sixty minutes, one minute has sixty seconds and so on. But does this answer the question about ‘what is time?’ though.

It does not, let me tell you what time is ,

Time is the most wise being ever but in its own mischievous way .Time is an egomaniac who just wants things to happen its way .Time can be a prankster that laughs at your failed plans and Time can be healer who allows you to go forward with the new ones. Its really more about how you perceive time to be .In more simple words Time can be good or bad for you .My mother used to say Time is friction less ball which cannot be caught  anyway ,it will tend to slip away . No matter how much you plan, there will be a new situation waiting for you to present itself. Now it will be up to you, how you perceive it to be. This maybe rewarding, or punishing in its nature.

TIME, FRIEND OR FOE:

Consider yourself as the new kid at school, it’s your first day ,

You are strangely alone in the class and in front of you are two options

Option 1: – You stay where you are and let your new classmates approach you, talk to you, understand you and at the end of the day you make at least one friend.

Option 2: – This time you make a move and try to talk to your new classmates, try to understand them yourself, make a calculative move and after careful calculations make a friend

Which option will you choose? or rather which will work the best for you?

The answer, according to me, is none. Staying quiet and keeping to yourself will never help in making a friend and you definitely cannot calculate your way through making a friend. You have to be humble, persuasive yet alert and then you will definitely succeed in having a great friend for you.

Time is no different than those new faces you see on the first day of your new class, ignoring time will just make it loose interest in you and chasing it will make time run away from you. Plans are the biggest hurting stones for time. your plans not only hurts the ego of time but also challenges it to make sure you fail, in other words learn a life lesson.

CAN YOU BEFRIEND TIME:

The answer is simple.  Yes, time can become your best friend. Respect is all it asks for, abiding its simple rules can help you befriend the biggest player of all.

RULES OF TIME:

1. FORGET THE PAST

We all must have made mistakes in the past, no matter how big or small they still haunt us. We all must have ,at least once ,thought about a moment where we could go back and correct our mistake .Just thinking about it makes us regret more and more .Time asks you to forget the past ,move forward and act wisely in the present .Learning from the mistakes and not repeating them can be a good start .As I earlier mentioned  my mother’s quote Time is a frictionless ball ,therefore it does not has a stop, its up to you how you move your ball of Time forward on a straight path or backward engulfing yourself in an endless maze

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time” – Leo Tolstoy

2)BE PATIENT, WAIT FOR THE RIGHT TIME

     The most difficult task is waiting .Patience is a skill you can only develop over time and for that you should first learn to wait .Wait for the right moment to strike Try to be logical and always refer to facts .If you want time to work  as a friend, you should not be emotional at all .Trust that in the end things will turn out in your favour .For a moment they might look like the worst day of your life but ultimately you will realise even the worst happened to you was for your own good.

Just these two rules and time can become your best friend. The more you will respect Time, the more this friendship will strengthen

HOW TO MANAGE TIME? THE MILLON DOLLAR QUESTION :

The other day one of my teacher was asked about a core question of life ,how to manage time efficiently and productively ?.The answer was’ you cannot’ .He told us you can never manage time ,what you can manage is the wastage of time  .

Here are some things which can be followed :-

 STEP 1 :-LIST YOUR ACTIVITIES WHICH YOU WANT TO DO IN ONE DAY

Listing the things you want to do in one day can be the start of your activity .Start with writing down everything you want and need to do and then state the time required to finish it .(Note here your day is not confined to 24 hrs .Imagine it to be an endless day with no time limit ). The list can include anything from morning routine to sleep rituals ,from office or study hours to time for your favourite activities  like playing games or watching your favourite show or pursuing your hobbies any thing you feel like doing. Make a list and calculate the time you require for your perfect day .I an sure it came out to be more than 24 hours .That’s right our individual perfect day is more than what we get ,well that’s how life is .Honestly my Perfect Day  came out to be 87 hours ,and this made me move to the next step.

 STEP 2:- START SORTING

The next step will be to sort out activities into different categories .Here is an example :-

1. ESSENTIAL – like daily activities eating , sleep hours ,bathing ,exercise ,walking your dog ,etc
2. IMPORTANT– Like school, homework, office ,etc
3. LESS ESSENTIAL -Like going out for a movie ,picnic ,buying monthly grocery etc. Basically include the things which you would not be doing every day .
4. LEISURE ACTIVITIES -Like playing games ,watching a show ,spa day ,etc 

Once sorted move to the next step that is

 STEP 3 :- MANAGE

This is the most heart breaking step and requires a lot of will .

After every thing is sorted try to manage the Essential and Important activities within 24 hours ,then add  no. 3 and no. 4 categories accordingly .If you are able to achieve every of your goal with in 24 hours  that’s great ,this could mean either you have some super power or you are still living on your home planet (not Earth of course ),jokes aside .If all your activities could be included in 24 hours you can just stop at step one but if you have come this far then you have to eliminate some things .

I am not saying to permanently stop doing your favourite activities ,no ,but then how will one manage to achieve the Perfect Day Goal.

This next step is how

 STEP 4 :- MAKE A WEEKLY OR MONTHLY PLAN

Planning just one day can be a little disheartening but a whole week gives you hope . Start with alternating your days you can follow the simple Weekdays and Weekends rule or the MWF AND TTSS rule which ever suits you . All the days will always  include the 1^st category as mentioned in step 2 and the 2,3 and 4 can be divide as per priority or importance .

 STEP 5 : SOME SELF DISCIPLINE TO FOLLOW

Note every thing down by making a planner .You can always use calendar applications or planner applications to mark events.

I like handwrite every detail in my planners for better remembrance.

Try to maintain a daily log of how you are spending your day

Logging every little time is near impossible but logging ,say every four to five hours will help you achieve discipline in managing your day .

Making checklists for special goals can also be beneficial in the journey of achieving them.

  TIME – YOUR ALLY

That’s it! now you can achieve your goals efficiently.

It can take some time but don’t be disheartened. Just consider Time as your ally, your partner and follow its rules   Be determined in what you want to achieve and Time will make it happen for you.