Time is constant for everyone and everyone shares an equal share of 24 hours. What distinguishes great people who left great works from us is how they used these hours.

As Alain said. "The fools think about how to kill time, the wise think about how to gain it..."

According to Balzac, "Killing time is the most expensive expenditure."

Isn't it really? None of us can afford to turn back the clock. In fact, today almost all of us suffer from the problem of not having enough time and not having enough time. In fact, this is because of what we wish we could do but can't, or our fear of losing control. This is where using and managing time well comes into play. A simple solution is to make time for the things that are most important to you first and leave the things of secondary importance behind. Learning to say no and making to-do lists are also important, but time management is a matter of planning, constant discipline and great skill.

On the other hand, some of us squander time as if we will live forever. What's left over from the daily urgencies, we spend hours in front of the television, immersed in fictional lives imagined by others, lost in their world. When you realize how fast time flies, instead of being filled with regret, don't let your time, one of the most valuable assets you have, be filled by others and spend it only on activities that are meaningful and important to you. In other words, as the proverb says, "our life quota is not unlimited, we need to know the value of time."

Again, as the Dairyland philosopher says, "How many more eclipses will you see? Or how many full moons? How many springs, how many summers will you see?"

What distinguishes us from great people is that they know what they want to do with the time they have and they spend it on activities that will bring them closer to their goals. The difference between using time well and managing it well is this: Using time well is the strategy of using it wisely to achieve your most important goals. Managing time well is the day-to-day process of making good use of time: time planning, making to-do lists, delegating some of the tasks to others. But there is always a strategy, and the first step is to prioritize and make sure you use your time well.( Pocket Mentor - Harvard Business).

As Confucius once said, "Time is like money, it is always enough unless it is wasted unnecessarily."

In conclusion:

1- To manage time well, use it well.
2- Evaluate and plan to use it well.
3- Always look at the big picture and focus on your goals. 4- Make sure you spend your time in the right places, doing the things that matter most to you.
5- Practice auditing your time for a week. Record how much time you spend on each activity and you will end up with a time use picture. Study and reflect on it. Where are you wasting time, what is unnecessary and how much time is allocated for your goals?
6- As well as making regular time each day for your most important activities (your work and your goals), monitor your personal time. Organize a separate table for your personal time as well as your work time. Always give yourself some leeway.
7- Do not procrastinate, do not procrastinate, be organized, not disorganized. Disorganization is a big obstacle to using time effectively.
8- Don't get stuck on obstacles, plan them, break them into pieces and solve them one by one.
9- Avoid poorly planned and untimely meetings and unnecessary travel.
10- Manage messages, phone calls, emails, don't spend unnecessary time. Instead of talking on the phone, use e-mail to save more time.

What is the saying? If you love life, don't waste time... Because life is time itself.

Mukaddes Pekin Başdil

Researcher-Author

Source: Denizli Haber