That is the most valuable and important thing in our life? People views are different as per their priority and thinking. But the most important and valuable thing in our life is TIME.

Time is money, not in monetary terms but it is as valuable as money. In fact time is everything. It teaches the way of living, it gives a way how to manage our daily routine work, commitments, promises etc.

In today’s era time is shrinking and therefore many of our commitments remain unfulfilled, our works become haphazard and our promises doesn’t attain. But why is it so? Do the people in the past has a day more than 24 hours or does the time started running?

The answer is NO. Time is and always has been the same, what changed is to manage it. Therefore, it is important for us to manage our time which is called TIME MANAGEMENT.

WHAT IS TIME?

Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through present to the future. Time is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience.

Our life passes through a series of stages. According to William Shakespeare, a very famous poet of all times defines that a person has seven stages of life. The life which starts from infancy travels through different phases ends at resting in peace.

Life is a timeframe of purpose not only to pass our time in the world but to achieve something in our life. The above pictograph defines a person’s life and the phases of age and time.

Infancy goes mewling and puking in the arms. The phase from 5 – 20 is a stage in which a person goes through learning process, develop nature whether innate or adopted and then and there it was time to prepare wisely to face hardships and struggle to achieve goals. The time after 20 – 60 gives everyone a chance to make oneself achieving its goals. Many of us achieve what they want in their lives but most of us used to pass lives in traditional way. But what makes the goal achievers different from those who do not? It is due to TIME MANAGEMENT.

We just get 8% of time in life to achieve our favorite goals. But this 8% would be achieved when we all manage our priorities timely.

TIME MANAGEMENT

“Time management” is the process of organizing and planning how to divide your time between specific activities. Good time management enables you to work smarter – not harder – so that you get more done in less time, even when time is tight and pressures are high. Fail to manage your time damages your effectiveness and causes stress. Time management” refers to the way that you organize and plan how long you spend on specific activities.

Let relate this definition with time quadrants that what is important, not important or urgent.

IMPORTANT

Anything that takes us towards our ‘worthwhile goals’ is termed as ‘important’ and anything that takes us away from our ‘worthwhile goals’ or doesn’t take us towards our ‘worthwhile goals’ is called ‘not important’.

“URGENT”

Any work that has to be done now and if delayed cannot be done later or will lose its relevance is called urgent.