THE BEST USE OF TIME

For what purpose will you invest your time and energy to increase your productivity, maximize your time, and organize your life in order to reach your set goals? Of all the reasons you have for doing the things that you do, achieving your goal is most important; it determines what you do and how you do it. You want to reach you goals, accomplish more and become happier in life; all of these is dependent on what you make happen. Everything needed to ensure that your goal setting processes and procedures are in place to ensure that all you want to do is done is what you should concentrate and spend your time doing.

Without goals your movement in life will not be defined. You definitely will make movement, but the direction might not be where you are supposed to be headed to. Movement does not signify progress; it is the direction than defines it. Goals give direction and purpose to our life actions. It defines your path, creates a sense of direction and focus and makes you responsible to a course. Task not finished, projects not completed and goals not achieve are indications that time was not put into best use.

People often say that they would not mind spending the whole of their time doing the things they love to do most. What we love to do varies from one person to another; how do you measure if what you love doing is worth the time you spend in doing it? Time spent on activities that will not add value to you in order to improve or increase you, and help you achieve your goals can not be said to be a well utilized time. If you spend half of your day in front of the TV set, is that a wise investment of time for the goals you have set to achieve? If you were to access your use of time, what will be the best thing you have done with your time? Learn to spend your time in such a manner that it profits your life. Understand the essence of time, the pattern with wish it moves, and be aligned to it.

In the same manner you cannot swim again the direction of the flow of a river with ease, so also you cannot become productive, attain excellence, and climb to the top level of management in your establishment, if you neglect time.

Be The Coach Of Your Time.

Time is common to everybody, but it means different things to each person. No matter the interpretation or description people give to time, it does not change the value, worth and the fact that there are 24 hours in one day.

• Do you know you can determine and control the things you do within the time frame you have.
• Nobody can control your time for you.
• Your time is unique and peculiar to you alone.
• You can become the coach of your time.

Remember that you do not have control over other people’s time. You only share of the time they are willing to allocate to you.

You have to take charge of the things you do. Do not allow situations determine how you decide to use your time. Just the way you plan your monthly budget, plan the daily use of your time also.

See 24 hours as the money you need to spend a day to purchase the commodities you need for that day. Let your activities become the commodities needed to be purchased. When you do this, you find that you wont need to purchase certain things, therefore you will not spend on them.

Not until you monetize your time, you will not know how much of it you are spending on those things that you do not have need for.

When you misuse your monthly funds, either by planning a budget above you pay or by spending on those things that are not necessary, you will run into budget deficit.

That’s exactly what happens also, when you loose control of your time. You will have a lot of pending task which you will have to take over to the next day. Each day activity is just enough for that day. In order be a good coach of your time, observe the following things;

1.      Have a workable Plan.

2.      Control your activities.

3.      Decide what is right and do it.

4.      Avoid distractions.

5.      Stay focus.

6.      Do not procrastinate.

7.      Have a good and positive mental altitude.

8.      Monitor your progress.

For every time you waste, something suffers for it. Know that you are never idle. You are either busy about one thing or another. That you are busy does not mean you are productive. Being occupied with an activity does not imply that the activity is worth that time.

You are the coach of your time. Adopt a system that supports change in the face of challenges, and still keeps you focused. Have a strategy for allocating your time and a mechanism for tracking your progress.