Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.
William A. Irwin
I am sure you have learnt some skill such as typing, cycling, and swimming. You would have noticed that the coach teaches you how to do it in small doses. If you cycle for some distance without falling, he will leave you to learn cycling on your own, since you have understood the principles involved in cycling. The same applies to any other skill.
Managing time also follows the same pattern. In fact, as I repeatedly say, there is no such thing as ‘time management’, but only managing outcome or result. It is about using your time judiciously. If you know how to use the next 10 minutes effectively, you should be able to manage the next 10 years also effectively. Just like learning to swim 10¬¬-50 feet alone is sufficient to swim a longer distance, if you can manage 10 minutes, it means that you have mastered the fine art of ‘time management’.
What is most important is to become conscious of how you manage the blocks of 10 minutes and notice whether you have applied your mind on the priorities on hand. If you do justice to every 10 minutes, you don’t have to worry about your ability to create your own future.
Let me give one more example. Suppose you have to travel 100 miles, as long as you travel the next 10 miles in the right way, you don’t have to worry about the remaining 90 miles!
Stop reading this; make a log of how you manage the blocks of 10 minutes until you go to bed today. Do this exercise for a week and notice what happens to your time consciousness!
From my book 'Arise, Awake and Take Charge')
N C Sridharan
www.thetimefoundation.com
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I am sure you have learnt some skill such as typing, cycling, and swimming. You would have noticed that the coach teaches you how to do it in small doses. If you cycle for some distance without falling, he will leave you to learn cycling on your own, since you have understood the principles involved in cycling. The same applies to any other skill.
Managing time also follows the same pattern. In fact, as I repeatedly say, there is no such thing as ‘time management’, but only managing outcome or result. It is about using your time judiciously. If you know how to use the next 10 minutes effectively, you should be able to manage the next 10 years also effectively. Just like learning to swim 10¬¬-50 feet alone is sufficient to swim a longer distance, if you can manage 10 minutes, it means that you have mastered the fine art of ‘time management’.
What is most important is to become conscious of how you manage the blocks of 10 minutes and notice whether you have applied your mind on the priorities on hand. If you do justice to every 10 minutes, you don’t have to worry about your ability to create your own future.
Let me give one more example. Suppose you have to travel 100 miles, as long as you travel the next 10 miles in the right way, you don’t have to worry about the remaining 90 miles!
Stop reading this; make a log of how you manage the blocks of 10 minutes until you go to bed today. Do this exercise for a week and notice what happens to your time consciousness!
From my book 'Arise, Awake and Take Charge')
www.thetimefoundation.com
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