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Jewels of Success!!

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Jewels of Success!!

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. It is commonly witnessed people who value, get much out the jewel of time. Have you ever seen you’re most important tasks being put off until later and then later and later, while you are getting busy with many not so important activities? Did you hope that you may have more time and better mood in the future to start the task and do it properly? Does an approaching deadline mean a crisis for you? Do you keep hesitating every time you make a decision? Usually yes responded such questions are clear intimation to prevalent mismanaged time, dominant in countries like Afghanistan. I, consequently, intended to lay down the underlying facts concerning importance and management of time.

We have to learn it time is transitory. If there are only twenty-four hours in a day, how can one find time to do more? One could hope for more time or accept the fact that everyone needs some type of time management tool, especially those in positions with numerous tasks that demand their time.  Whether using a simple process of writing down a list of necessary tasks to complete each day, a calendar or some form of elaborate time management software, time management is an essential part of everyday living. 

With good time management skills you are in control of your time and your life, of your stress and energy levels. You make progress at work. You are able to maintain balance between your work, personal, and family lives. You have enough flexibility to respond to surprises or new opportunities.

All skills are learnable. More than likely you will see much improvement from simply becoming aware of the essence and causes of common personal time management problems. With these time management lessons, you can see better which time management techniques are most relevant for your situation. Just get started with them. Many of your problems gradually disappear.

If you already know how you should be managing your time, but you still don't do it, don't give up. What you may be overlooking is the psychological side of your time management skills, psychological obstacles hidden behind your personality. Depending on your personal situation, such obstacles may be the primary reason why you procrastinate, have difficulties saying no, delegating, or making time management decisions.

If you often see yourself in such low productivity situations, then there is a big chance that your life got under control of the procrastination habit. And those situations are only the most explicit symptoms. Procrastination is putting off the things that you should be doing now. This happens with all of us time after time.

Yet, what makes a big difference for your success is your ability to recognize procrastination reasons and expressions in their different forms, and to promptly take them under control, before this bad habit steals your opportunities, damages your career and pride, or destroys your relationships. So why do not you do it now?

From variant perspective, your life is a sequence of big and small choices and decisions. It is those choices that you really manage, not the flow of time. Personal goal setting is the wisdom that comes out of a lot of practical experience and psychology research to help you direct your conscious and subconscious decisions towards success, building up your motivation to achieve your personal or business goals. Decision making can be hard. Almost any decision involves some conflicts or dissatisfaction. The difficult part is to pick one solution where the positive outcome can outweigh possible losses. Avoiding decisions often seems easier. Yet, making your own decisions and accepting the consequences are the only way to stay in control of your time, your success, and your life.

Astutely distributing time is about taking control of one of the most valuable resources we have, our time. It is an essential tool for stress reduction, success, and perhaps even survival, especially in today's society of increasing demands on a much leaner workforce. This increasing workload is not hypothetical, but, is in fact, a reality. Time management also proves to be beneficial to individuals outside of the workplace, given the fact that most employees have just as many or more demands on their time away from work. Time management is the key to this personal management skill. All of the awesome and productive workers successfully manage their time. You could probably work less and be much more at peace with yourself with some quality time-management training.

“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right” avowed Nelson Mandela. Time can be secured and are aided by a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific tasks, projects and goals. This set encompasses a wide scope of activities, and these include planning, allocating, setting goals, delegation, analysis of time spent, monitoring, organizing, scheduling, and prioritizing. Initially, time management referred to just business or work activities, but eventually the term broadened to include personal activities as well. A time management system is a designed combination of processes, tools, techniques, and methods. Usually properly organization of time is a necessity in any project development as it determines the project completion time and scope. Planning in organization and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale within given span of time. Thus time is priceless treasure of success if subjected to proper management and made use of.

Asmatyari is a permanent writer of Daily Outlook Afghanistan. He can be reached at asmatyar@gmail.com

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