ARE YOU CONSTANTLY FIRE FIGHTING?

 

“Time management is not clock management, but life leadership.”

When I was new to my profession, I always found that I was literally panting for breath trying to meet deadlines. It made me feel tired and dissatisfied with whatever I was doing. I felt that there was no quality in what I was doing even if I was meeting deadlines. Lack of excellence always hurts me. I was upset with my own actions. I was constantly fire-fighting. One day I decided enough was enough and started working on making a proper plan for everything. I kept improvising on it. I invested a lot of time on what was important, but not urgent.  In course of time the schools received the NABET accreditation from the Quality Council of India. Automatically, systems came into place.

 

“That on which you invest time grows. That which is starved of your time shrinks.”

 

Even as students we tend to while away our time after school hours, with no proper plan to have a fixed study time at home. There is a lot of randomness in our daily activities. There is no goal. Each day goes in time wasters. Then comes a series of tests/exams and that’s when we realize that we have so much to study and very little time left. We keep fire-fighting. We get stressed not knowing from where to begin. We want to cry out loudly, but we cannot, as we ourselves are the cause for our misery. The day my std X result was to be announced, I was so full of apprehension. I cried bitterly. I made a silent pact with God that I will use my potential and that I will never waste my time. I realized my mistake. I had wasted a lot of my precious time. But, since then, I lived up to my promise and became very disciplined in my life. Today, I am not guilty of mismanaging my time, which is the greatest resource.

 

Why should we go through so much stress? In fact, we create our own stress. Nobody is responsible for it. Anything that is done in the last minute creates stress in us. So, we need to wisely plan our day to avoid disappointments and calamities in our life. This is true of our health too. All our life, we eat tongue conscious food and lead a sedentary lifestyle. The day we realize that it has taken a toll on our health, it is too late to make amends. The rest of our life we keep popping medicines, which becomes our food. Now we are ready to exercise every day, to save our life. But we cannot get back our health. When we do not utilize our time wisely, when we don’t prioritize, we have to keep fire-fighting constantly in life. I would urge everyone to identify which activity of theirs should go to which of the four quadrants of time management, important and urgent(Q1), important but not urgent (Q 2), not important but urgent(Q3), not important and not urgent(Q4). Invest more time on what is important. Else it will become urgent. Begin from where you can begin.

 

“Small beginnings

Incremental improvement

Sustained progress

Legendary possibilities.”

 

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