Showing posts with label Invest time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Invest time. Show all posts

Saturday, August 23, 2014

365 Exciting Ways To Live

2/365Track Where Your Time Goes

He that rises late must trot all day.

Benjamin Franklin

Do you complain ‘I have no time’?   If so, you are lying! Isn’t it true that all of us have the same amount of time, irrespective of any social differences? So, it is not true that you do not have time. May be, you do not know where your time is going. Any valuable resource should be handled and invested carefully. Time is the most valuable of all the resources. You should know where and how you spend your time.

Do an exercise for the next ten days. Record all the activities that you do every 30 minutes from the time you get up till you go to sleep in a time logging sheet. Do this exercise very sincerely and honestly for ten days. You don’t have to show this to anyone.

At the end of ten days, study and critically evaluate, whether you spend your time intelligently or not. Identify unnecessary activities; those, which you could have postponed or you could have delegated; those on which you could have spent less time, etc. You will hit a treasure chest!

Do this logging from today!

(From my book “365 Exciting Ways to Live”)
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 N.C. Sridharan
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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 '100 Exciting Ways to Live')

N C Sridharan
www.thetimefoundation.com