Sometimes do you feel that you are juggling too many duties over the course of a day? Do you ever find yourself wishing there were more hours in the day, because there is ‘never enough time’ to get everything done? Who hasn’t wished at some point that there were more hours in a day?
Wonder why your colleagues or friends, who are as busy as you are, always seem to find time to enjoy themselves after work? Do you have this feeling that time is always against you? You are always struggling against time to finish your work assignments, and after that, there’s no energy for other things.
You are tired, and it needs a lot of strength and effort even to do the basic of household duties like fixing dinner, fetching your kids from school etc. It sometimes seems that you spend so much time rushing from place to place or task to task that you don’t actually achieve anything except for feeling more frustrated. Your social life will also be affected as you hardly have time to have a coffee or simply hang out with friends.
Whether you are looking at time management from a business level, a personal level, or as a general way of life, there is one constant: time management is about getting results and not necessarily being busy. Time management starts with being centered on what you are doing at the moment. There are some people who will argue or disagree that theoretically there is no possible way to multi-task because you can literally only perform one task at a time.
What are the benefits of having a time and information management system? You can make such notes quickly before you go to bed, have breakfast, or while you watch the news on TV. Why would you want to make such memos at such times? Simply because you can, and because it produces the space for you to be your expressive self when you are doing other important things.
Ultimately we must keep in mind we can not control time. Bold statement I know, but we can not make it go faster or slow it down. Having said that, what we really need to do is better manage ourselves. If we can do this, then we will the necessary time to plan all aspects of lives.
