: 'Invest' Time

Sunday, July 2, 2017

365 Exciting Ways to Live : Excitement # 86. Control TV-Viewing Time

Control TV-Viewing Time

Television: chewing gum for the eyes.

– Frank Lloyd Wright

Have you considered reducing your TV watching time? If not, do it immediately. The visual media are so powerful that it will take away all your precious time. With the latest technology available, there is no limit at all for the number of channels available to watch. The only limitation is our time, which you know is very scarce and precious.

Just imagine your life before the TV came to your room! Didn’t you have more family time and personal time? What happened to all that?

Consider the following:

All programmes may be interesting, but you have limited time. So, choose in advance, which programmes you are going to watch.
Spend quality time on TV by watching useful channels. Give a functional bias to your TV-watching portfolio.
Log your TV-watching time for a week and try to reduce it by 20% to start with.
Don’t have a TV in your work or study area; it will interfere with your work.

The list is endless. If you are really serious, you can use the TV for a productive purpose.

(From my book '365 Exciting Ways to Live')

N C Sridharan

www.thetimefoundation.com

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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

365 Exciting ways to live - 12

12 / 365 Don’t Spend, ‘Invest’ Time

Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go.

Henry Austin Dobson

Do you waste time? If you know the value of time, you will not. You will not say ‘I spent time’, but will say ‘I invested time’. You will be punctual and organised. You will be conscious of the productivity of your time.

But the question is: how do we become conscious about the value of our time? One way is to know how much time has passed so far and how much is left over, just as you do with money!

Here’s an exercise which you should do today. Take your marriage album or your family album. Go through the album from cover to cover. Try to do a time regression. Go back and review the past ten or fifteen years of your life as though you are seeing a movie. You will realise that a lot of time has disappeared and will continue to disappear with or without your consent and knowledge. Calculate how many more years and weeks you have and think what you are going to do with the time available?

Do it today.

(From my book “365 Exciting Ways to Live”)
NC Sridharan