At the start of life we learn to understand time. We eat at a fixed time. We do all the daily cores at pre-defined times. We literally follow all bits of small jobs squeezed into our schedules based on timing. Every time you don’t do something at a defined time you tend to get late for predefined schedules. Say, a person is doing some project; the time-line to finish the project is two hours, the project work spills over two hours then the whole schedule after that gets disturbed or is prone to rescheduling.
Such small re-scheduling is nothing but a day-to-day habitual approach. When this habit turns to a routine practice, it comes so silently that we are unaware of the timely completion and maintenance of the required deadlines.
First priority items, then party
As far as the family commitments are concerned, we have learnt to convince ourselves and the family that work is more important so all other things will have to be adjusted as per the work timings. But this attitude spills over slowly to the work arena also. A person who doesn’t meet time-lines personally often has the same approach professionally too.
Relevance of timeliness for a student is even more critical. A schedule of reading a subject or schedule of revisiting the topics which need more attention, which was planned, gets swayed by the little desires of spending more leisure time with friends and partying. The excuse which is always present is that this is the age to have fun and rest all other things can be handled and are not so important.
Everything is relevant if the timing is relevant. The small things which we do ignoring time become ‘dustbin things’ for schedule and priority items.
Why ‘dustbin things’?
For all those who have a goal in life, they need to follow certain disciplined principles; which of course should be self driven. Any activity which eats away your time without any return is actually similar to burning your time or throwing it into a dustbin. The gossip rages, the non-sense wiling out of time, using the phrase- “It’s so boring”, not deciding on the priority of your intentions, etc. fall in this category.
Again this is not something which someone else defines for you.
You are the best person to define it for yourself.
Not because you know it well but because you are the only one who might have to pay the price of this damage. The time lost does not come back again.
“The dustbin needs to be minimized and only then the focus and priority will lead you to the correct pathway to success.”
People, who learn to value time, also learn to define how time can be optimally utilized or can be saved. When someone else nags us, we feel embarrassed or offended; but then a truth lies that we have not yet decided on the discipline to handle our schedules. The earlier we learn the lesser will be the scope for people to suggest and more particularly lesser will be the scope of any major damage to our goals. Always remember time is not variable, it is a fixed parable, so it is wise to keep its strings in our hands and use it to achieve those heights in life that we have dreamt of.
Be aware of the dustbin things and remember one small fact which makes wonders to your mindset-
“Success knocks your doorstep when you welcome it with your efforts, timely approach and proving your capability to handle it.
Who has done has achieved it. ”