MY PERSONAL PLANNER

 

Most of us are women in my work place. It is very characteristic of women to prioritize their family over themselves. From the time I began understanding the importance of staying fit and having a healthy lifestyle, I have been taking care of myself. It is definitely making all the difference. For the last fifteen years I have been creating time for what is important. I also know that the easiest thing to tell is, “Well, I don’t have time.” Who is the loser? If I tell that I don’t have time to take care of my body, I must be ready to embrace ill-health. “Health is wealth” makes sense to us only when we grow older. But by then we sometimes lose our health. The only time that we can get for ourselves is in the morning. Wake up half-an-hour early and do some form of exercise. The family demands will be more during the rest of the day, and for some of us, we will be in our work place.

 Meditating on a daily basis enables spiritual ascendance. If you can give eleven minutes of your time for your spiritual growth, it will create a lot of self-awareness in you. With this heightened awareness you can live a life of peace and harmony, which has become scarce now. People live life with an agitated and disturbed mind. Happiness has become a premium. People are not ready to sit still for just eleven minutes. Thoughts will keep coming when you sit in meditation, but continue to sit, and one day you will slip into Silence. Make it a habit and you will realize that all the bounties of life and the dynamism for your doing comes from your non-doing.  There are women who have made exercise and meditation a way of life.

 If we understand that the proper use of time will enable us to do what is most important, we will never be at the mercy of what is least important. There are so many people who are able to do this and that. There are children who are prompt in their work, who are achievers, not only in academics, but also in different other fields, like sports, performing arts, writing, painting, doodling, etc. When they can do it, we too should be able to do. Time is an attitude. As mahatria says, “Time management is not all about managing the clock, but it is about managing time in the context of what you want to be in the future.” Do you want to be healthy? Do you want be peaceful? Do you want to be successful? Do you desire holistic abundance in your life?

 “Where your time goes there your future comes”- mahatria Ra

 The Time Management Matrix has four quadrants.

Q1- Urgent and important- Zone of demand- Creates stress- Last minute preparation for the exam, meeting deadlines, crisis management, etc

Q2- Not urgent, but important- Zone of discipline- Creates value- Developing your capability, preparing a schedule for your daily routine, investing time on your physical and mental health, anything futuristic.

Q3- Urgent, but not important-Zone of drain-Creates frustration- Some unavoidable interruptions, meetings, pressing matters, etc.

Q4- Not urgent, not important- Zone of delusion- Creates waste-All kinds of time wasters, social media, television, gossip time, nothing that will bring your growth.

I hope you realize that Q3 & Q4 are your time stealers, that will lead to frustration and disappointment in life. You will ultimately become a loser in life. Anything unavoidable, that has to be attended to, on a short notice, does not happen every day. So, life should not be in Q1 by the delays you create. Ideally, life should be in Q2. A disciplined and a well-planned life, where you allot time for everything that is necessary and important, without giving any excuse to yourself, leave alone the world outside. Hey, I just brought that shift in my life, and that totally transformed everything about my life. I wish to see each one of you experiencing that joy, which only a disciplined life can give us. It is truly liberating. Is your daily planner ready?

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