What is time? Is
it a resource or a limitation, is it real or an illusion, can you really manage
time? Are there real examples of people who have been excellent time managers?
Are there people who are not troubled by managing their time?
Firstly time and stress are
internally connected...in fact almost all forms of stress have their roots in
time.
Let us take a few examples. Why
is an examination a stressful experience – because there is a time limit to it.
Why is any contest a stressful experience, because there is a limited time in
which you have to win it.Can you think of any competition where there is no
imposed time limit?
Just reflect on this for a
moment, if there was no such thing as time, would there be something called as
stress.
YES!! U CAN WIN TIME...
you have to change the way you
look at time. You have to look at time as a single moment available to you and
not as a day, or a week or a month. This is the single most important shift
that has to happen in order to understand and maximize time.
You are given only one moment
at a time, what you do with it is all that matters. The moment you start
thinking in terms of days, weeks and months, you have postponed your action. If
you give it an hour to accomplish a task, it will postpone it to the next hour.
If you give it one week to accomplish a task it will move it to the next week.
The only way to control your
mind and time is to be in control of this very moment. When you tell your mind
to accomplish something this very moment, it cannot postpone it, because
postponing requires thinking, which requires time and a single moment cannot
allow this.
Remember, action
is always about this moment, and thinking is always about what has already
happened or what is going to happen.
The easiest way to manage time
is to be aware of what you are doing at this very moment. So at this very
moment, you can either prepare for your exams or watch television; you can
either talk about preparing or actually prepare; you can either sleep or read.
If you are aware of all your actions, you can make the necessary shift each
moment to align it with your preparations.
And of course, stop giving
yourself, convenient, stupid and idiotic justifications like; My food will not
get digested, if I don’t eat it slowly for half an hour; I cannot concentrate
if I don’t sleep for 11 hours a day; My mind will be fresh only after drinking
a cup of tea; Too much of studies dulls my mind; I should not study
continuously for more than 1 hour. My eyes will get affected if I see the
laptop screen for long. I am different, I can only remember things if I study
at midnight between 12 and 4!
Practical necessities and
difficulties are always there, but that is for ordinary people. You should not
even be reading this article if you consider yourself ordinary. You have to
look at yourself as a warrior, who is willing to go to any lengths to Lead the
world.
