Everyone gets the same opportunity and is left free to deal with it. Perhaps the question that comes to mind now is, what is that equal opportunity every human being gets on earth?
It is time, as all people have 24 hours a day. The smart and the stupid, the poor and the rich, and the inhabitants of Asia, Africa, and Europe have one amount of time without any increase or decrease. Good use of time is one of the most critical measures of the progress of nations and civilizations.
We have lost sight of this concept so much that we no longer care how many hours pass in a day; Was it beneficial? With this severe neglect, which reached its climax in our Arab world, human problems began to appear and get exacerbated little by little. Perhaps the most common problems of a person who does not know the value of time and does not invest in it properly are as follows:
- Feelings of anxiety and stress that accompany a person.
- Business backlog.
- Poor relationships with others.
Reflective pause
Let's be honest with ourselves when answering the following questions:
- How many times have you been worried and tense due to your failure to fulfill your promises to complete your tasks, whether at the level of work, family, or relationships with others?
- How many times have you had to make extra efforts just to collect accumulations you have, whether at the level of work, family, or relationships?
- How many problems have you faced during your life, whether at work or problems with family or friends, due to not having enough time to fulfill your obligations towards all of the above?
You may say in your answers, “yes, indeed, I do not have time, and I have a large amount of work, and I cannot meet all the requirements.” We often hear similar phrases such as, “I have no time,” “very pressured,” “I feel like I'm only working,” “ I can hardly rest,” and “so stressed that I work from morning till night.”
The question that arises now is: Does everyone have the same condition as yours? Do all people suffer from what you suffer from?
The answer is no, even if the majority suffers from the same suffering as you, but what is the secret of those who do not suffer from time pressures and you see them performing all their tasks in the best way? Their secret and success lie in only one thing: managing time, investing it well, and investing the hours of their day in a way that serves their highest interest and achieves the goals they want to reach.
What is the concept of time management?
Every one of us should know with certainty that time management is a skill that is acquired through training. No human being is born with a talent for managing time; This skill is acquired by learning it. This concept is intended to organize time to achieve significant benefits and avoid the risk of wasting time.
Maximizing time as a great value paves the way for a person to know how to deal with this precious thing that establishes their happiness in this world and that earns them distinction in all aspects of life, whether scientific, economic, or social.
Examples and pearls of wisdom of good time management
Before we dive more into the details, we can pause to learn about the benefits of time management through realistic examples we see daily in our lives. For example, if we ask an outstanding student about the secret of their academic excellence, the first answer they would give us would be time management. This answer comes before they say they studied well, as good time organization paves the way for effective study.
Let's ask an employee rising in their career ladder about the secret of their promotion. Their answer will be sincerity in work and diligence, and how sincerity can be without organizing time and without good management of working hours. There are many more examples that we emulate in our daily lives.
It is also important to know that developed countries have given time a very great value, and we can review together a set of sayings and pearls of wisdom about the importance of time and appreciating this precious jewel we have.
John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, said, “We should use time as a tool, not as a crutch.” Dale Carnegie says, “ Ask yourself regularly, what is the best use of my time now? Don't kill or waste time.”
Many pearls of wisdom and sayings emphasize the importance of time management and its good investment. If we adhere to it, we will achieve great success at the level of individuals and society.
The recipe for success
After reviewing all of the above, a question may arise in your mind about how to have a mechanism that a person works on to acquire the skill of time management to learn this skill and apply it to the reality of daily life. This is an easy matter for those who want it.
To achieve what you want, we offer you in this article a magic recipe that includes a group of items whose application leads to one acquiring the skill of time management. The terms of the recipe are:
1. set priorities and set well-defined goals
To understand this matter, let's look at the following example together. What if you want to build a house for yourself, and you want it to be your dream house, which you have always looked at in your imagination and contemplated its details? Indeed, as soon as the real and realistic moment begins, you will work to bring in the best construction engineers to draw up the plan you want. You will take care of all the details, set the best priorities, take into account the directions of the sun and the direction of the winds, and will work to determine the measurements of each room and determine the paint colors and other details. Each has its own priority and specific purpose, all for your home to be in reality as it is in your dreams.
The most important question is why do we not reflect this interest in all the details of our lives in terms of setting our priorities, our clear goals that we want to achieve, and plans that help us move towards those goals?
Once we know how to set our priorities and how to set our goals, we will know how to manage our time and invest the hours of our day effectively to reach the goals to be achieved.
2. start with the most important
The development and speed of our current life are factors that imposed a set of restrictions on each human being that restrict our movement. You see that some of us only finish the first task once the second task tackles them. Thus, day after day, random tasks drain one's energy;
What if we realized our priorities and started carrying out our tasks, starting with the most important? Absolutely, everything will change because in this way, once a person determines the importance of their life’s tasks and goals, whether they are short, medium, or long-term, they will know how to distribute their time effectively to achieve what they want according to their own timetable that they set to meet their ambitions, achieve their goals, and satisfy their passion.
3. delegate tasks to others
The human is a social being who cannot live in isolation.
Everyone needs everyone, and one of the most important methods of using time and managing it well is through cooperation with others to carry out various tasks. This is what we call idiomatically delegating tasks to others.
For example, one employee cannot complete all the tasks in their work without cooperation with their other colleagues and delegating their tasks to others. Likewise, at the family level, the family will not be able to complete its family tasks without cooperation and delegation of tasks between the spouses. They will find that they are always pressed in terms of time.
4. learn to say "no" to everything that distracts you.
You might ask, is there an effective and ineffective “no”? Can a person learn to say no? What is the relationship between saying “no” to good time management?
It may be a habit to say the word “yes” instead of the word “no”, whether at the level of work, family, or even friends. Every “yes” that a person says without realizing it will have a new burden on them. That’s because with the accumulation of “yes” that they say, they will not have time left to do what they want but will only be subject to the requests and orders of others. Here comes the importance of saying the word “no” that stops everyone at their limit so that one can look at themselves, their feet' position, and the ground on which they stand.
The word “no” makes them pay attention to their wasted time without benefit, so they do not accept wasting their time except with what is appropriate for them and achieve the goals that they aspire to reach. So, say no to excessive tasks at work that drains energy, no to going out with friends without a planned date, and no to everything contingent on life and has no importance.
5. having the flexibility to accept obstacles and deal with them
Have you ever heard of a person who never made a mistake during their life? Certainly, the answer is “no.” Every person makes mistakes, but not every person bears responsibility for their mistakes.
One of the most important pillars of time management is for a person to fully assume their responsibilities because taking responsibility makes one wary of future disappointments, so they set prior expectations, develop alternative plans, and distribute the uses of time.
They devote part of their time to emergencies, and in this way one is flexible in anticipating obstacles, accepting them, and dealing with them without wasting unaccounted time.
In conclusion: Make up your mind now.
It is said “take advantage of five before five, your youth before your old age, your health before your disease, your wealth before your poverty, your free time before your occupation, and your life before your death.”
None of us can take advantage of their youth and health, invest their money, fill their emptiness, and achieve their life goals without having good time management in a way that makes all of the above a real reality, not an illusion or a fantasy.
I am sure that you have galvanized your will to use every second of your time towards a goal. Let your motto from now on be, “God did not create the world in a state of chaos, and I do not want to be the mess in it.”
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