Time is a measure of duration between events, allowing us to understand the sequence and progression of occurrences. The concepts of timing, timelines, timeframes, and deadlines underscore the importance of time.
Time is the ready, uniform, and universal benchmark against which outcomes, performances, and traction can be gauged. The relevance of time spans all human facets and endeavours. Corporations benchmark their performance based on annual results. Nations, policymakers, planners, traders, investors, everybody is watching the dial.
Time, therefore, serves as the yardstick measuring productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness, with time management playing a crucial role in this process. Mastering this common denominator can lead to monumental advantages. This mastery opens up the possibilities of maximising outcomes through the conscious manipulation of daily routines and processes, paving the way for personal growth and achievement.
If you are busy, juggling several alternatives with numerous commitments vying for your attention, come forward and let’s talk. If you feel that 24 hours a day, 7 days a week is not enough, then take a seat. The goal is to use time and its trapping to your advantage. The idea is to significantly reduce stress, fatigue, and burnout, while also moderating engagement, minimising distractions, and maximising results.
To manage anything, you must first understand it; to manage time, you must first appreciate its characteristics. This understanding is the key to effective time management, empowering you to make the most of your time.
-Time, though readily available, is grossly inadequate. There is never enough time for the things we really want to do. To the busy, time is insufficient; to the indolent, time is in surplus abundance.
-Also, abundant Time is also scarce.
-Universal Time is also localised.
-Free Time is also gravely valuable and expensive.
-Time that is a leveller on the interim is also a distinguisher in the long run.
-Intangible Time is also tangible.
-Time though the same, can be varied and readily recognised in units, i.e. Minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and a lifetime. Winter and summer. And frames as the past, the present and the future.
Keep this in mind as we highlight a few perspectives on time that can foster effective time management. There are broadly ten concepts or perspectives. With time, we can only review the idea of an Incident Moment, which postulates that the only guarantee of time you have is a moment called now. And now is the cumulative effect of the past; now is also the buildup to the future. The decision to maximise the incident moment must be made before the incident moment. To do well now, you must have
1. Predetermined beforehand what maximising now means to you. You must
2. prioritise options,
3. weed out distractions and
4. Delegate where possible,
Then you must 5. Pace yourself and monitor your work rate.
6. Utilise a realistic to-do list, do not overwhelm yourself with a to-do list with too many activities for a day.
7. Simulates deadlines proactively, stop trying to play catch-up
8. Do not forget to create room for the unforeseen that was not premeditated.