I’ve failed. After numerous attempts to be productive, I can honestly say that I am not. This post is my call for help. Tell me what has worked for you. How is it that you are able to accomplish so much in 24 hours while I cannot? Allow this post to help you refresh your memories and talk about the tools and techniques you’ve used. What has not worked for you? What can you do better?
In this competitive world, it is important to be efficient. To be efficient, one has to be productive. The question is: Are we disciplined enough to be productive? The best of tools don’t help us unless we’ve discipline. But I waste time. I procrastinate. I laze around. I wait for the 11th hour to work on that task. Then I rush to meet the deadline. My perfect ignorant world turns upside down. I somehow manage to meet the deadline and I deliver.
Maybe I get an adrenaline rise from managing chaos and during those final chaotic hours, I am at my efficient best. Maybe I don’t deliver as best as I would have if I had prepared; if I am disciplined. Maybe you cannot identify with me. Maybe you’ve made it work.
How? Tell me ONE thing you do that helps you make the best use of your time.
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Have a few hours?
For starters though, you can throw away the remote… stop taking in the scenery while driving instead of concentrating on the road…. make notes in your mobile device, and remember to LOOK at them before ‘expiry date’… and …. *cough cough* I could go on and on
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Your post says it all. Its discipline. I remember during my school days when my teacher use to say “early to sleep and early to rise”. How many of us really follow that. There are people who can talk endlessly about time management but to me it is more of discipline than anything else. If you really want to know what is the importance of time management then talk to a soldier on the border front. You will realise that they don’t even get a fraction of a second to think before a bullet passes just an inch away from his ear. Thats where you can see the respect for times management. But obvious, when anything comes to life people start getting scared. When they get scared they have no other option than being disciplined.
So DISCIPLINE is the mantra.
Early to bed, early to rise… I learned that too at a very young age but at some point in my teenage life I conveniently forgot about it and I chose to be less disciplined. Now I struggle to get back to basics. Thank you for reminding me of that very basic rule, Sxjaiswa.