The Most Substantial Tips for Managing and Investing in Time

Therefore, wasting time affects a person’s life negatively and frustrates their ability to achieve success and constant progress. In this article, we will shed light on the importance of time and the tips that must be adhered to use your time productively.

The significance of time:

• Improving personal capabilities if they make good use of it by searching for knowledge and useful science which enables them to evolve their life.
• Improving relations and bonds between humans generally, and family and relatives particularly, which is reflected on the human psyche, comfort, and stability.
• Investing in time helps a person achieve success and wishes in life by working hard at every passing minute of the day instead of wasting it on trivial things that do not provide any benefit.
• A person can invest in their time well to get closer to God, enjoy performing daily acts of worships, do good deeds that God almighty has commanded man to do, such as investing time to provide aid to the poor and needy, and to do voluntary works that bring back good to the homelands.
• A person can invest their time to entertain themselves, such as taking tourism trips, traveling, and moving between countries to get to know God’s creation and blessings.
• Time helps maintain human health, who works to invest their fruitful time in exercising, which maintains their health and protects them from serious diseases. 

The advantages of time management:

• Time management helps organize human life in general, which gives them a sense of psychological comfort and psychological stability away from chaos and mental distraction.
• By means of organization of time, a person can spend as much as possible with the family and go with them on trips and recreational outings.
• A person can find enough time to rest and to take a sufficient amount of sleep that makes them wake up in full activity and vitality.
• Time allows a person to develop themselves and their skills to reach their dreams and aspirations in life.
• Time management contributes to improving the quality of human work and production since they work hard and persevere without wasting any minute in vain.
• Organizing time keeps man away from the factors of dispersion and chaos that negatively affect the results of human actions and make them fall into many mistakes.
• Also, time gives a person a feeling of happiness and satisfaction with themselves and protects them from exposure to psychological stress.
• Organizing time gives a person an opportunity to increase their income and work to open a project of their own.

Time wasters:

• A person’s lack of awareness of the significance of time, as they begin and end their day without providing any fruitful achievement in this life, such as being late in sleeping and waking up or being late in completing works and tasks.
• Random work that does not depend on an organized daily schedule leads to a person's distraction, confusion, and wasting more time.
• Weakness of human will and inability to achieve all of their dreams, ideas, and goals that revolve in their mind and imagination causes them to waste their time thinking and imagining success without achieving any practical steps.
• Man's refusal to ask for help from others and their insistence on working alone and taking on many tasks at home and work makes them need more time to complete very simple tasks.
• Person’s laziness and their deferment of their daily work and tasks makes them waste more time on unimportant matters.

Tips for time management:

• Waking up early every day in order for a person to invest in their day from the beginning and to practice their daily activities calmly and comfortably.
• Developing a clear work plan and work to implement it literally throughout the week. This plan is based on defining the weekly work, the main tasks, and the time needed for each task.
• Dividing the daily tasks that fall on the human shoulder and not starting any new task before completing the old one.
• Choosing the right time in which you are most productive to start working, as some people are active in the morning period, while others in the evening period.
• Allocating specific times and hours of the day to get the necessary rest to charge the body with more energy and vitality, in addition to setting a specific time to sit with family and friends.
• Staying away from everything that can distract your mind while performing daily tasks such as television, mobile, and laptop.
• Prioritizing your work to get it done before the minor things.
• Keeping a small notebook in your pocket or bag to record all the precise notes and mistakes of your day so that you can review them from time to time and never fall into again.
• Working on the principle of delegating tasks in order to invest in your time to get more work done in a standard time period.
• Do not exaggerate in the pursuit of perfection because the pursuit of this topic will make you lose more time without investing it in useful work.
• Put a timepiece in front of you while you work so you can keep track of the time throughout the day.
• In case you have work that requires calm and accuracy, you must close the door and put a sign on which you write, “Please do not disturb” in order to complete this task skilfully in a perfect time.
• If you make some phone calls, you should only talk about business matters and not waste time talking about other things, and set a specific time for each call.
• Every now and then you should reward yourself by getting a quarter of an hour of relaxation during the day and drinking a cup of tea, coffee, or natural juices. 

Tips for investing in your free time:

• Doing daily exercises that help stimulate blood circulation and maintain a healthy body.
• Reading useful books that help revitalize the mind and develop human culture and awareness, such as literary books, scientific books, and human development books.
• Practicing useful hobbies that develop human creativity, such as sports, music, drawing, and some handicrafts.
• Cleaning and arranging the house, arranging the flowers and the house’s garden.
• Learning to prepare some special food dishes and desserts.
• Watching scientific programs and documentaries on TV.
• Practicing meditation, relaxation, and yoga exercises under the supervision of a specialized trainer.
• Practicing some intelligence games such as chess.
• Attending some scientific seminars and registering for language courses.
• Taking fun trips with friends and family.

Maxims and sayings about time:

• Time is gold. If you miss, it is gone.
• Time is like water, if you don't drink it, it will swallow you up and drown you and ruin your life.
• The ordinary man does not care about the passage of time, but the talented one is led by it.
• I don't think about the past, I’m living my present.
• Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you can't get more time.
• There is plenty of time for laughter, and life is still enough to sing and dance too.
• Many people spend a lot of time and effort avoiding problems, rather than trying to solve them.
• Affairs depend on their timing.
• Your time is your biggest resource.
• Minutes are worth more than money, so spend them wisely.
• Time is indeed the capital of any human being, and the one thing they cannot afford to lose.
• A person often wastes a lot of their time reading an unuseful book, or a difficult book when there is the easiest, or a superficial book while there is the deepest.
• You should never waste time inventing things that people won't buy.
• Wealth can be compensated by industry, knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is lost forever.
• Time is the essence of life.