Effective Time Management

Time management has been numerously discussed by various scholars but the exigency for effective time management has not decreased but rather increase in a supersonic rate, every human is in dire need of ways to free their mind from the problem of no time or I don’t know what to do with my time, as one of the things that should be put in mind when harnessing both human and non-human resources is how to manage them as they are known to be time-bound.

  Going down the archival realm of literature, peter drucker defined time as the most scarce resource of the manager which if it is not well-managed, nothing else could be managed, this definition has substantially state the magnitude of relativity of time to the manager,though,you might be left in awe of thinking you are neither a businessman nor manager but a manager is a person that co-ordinates, so you are one, you are a manager, since you mingle with friends both at home and abroad since you use services and render one whether directly or indirectly, you are a manager as you are bound by the time factor.

If our time is not well-managed, nothing would be managed and overtime, it has been inferred that a man that failed to plan is planning to fail and those that plan to fail are planning to go into extinction, the consequence of poor time management ranges from abject poverty to everlasting regret amidst others, but how can man conquer his lackadaisical attitude towards time is the question that led to the evolution of this piece.

  Various luminaries in the literary world have worked on effective time management and other topics that is related to time and how to achieve a particular goal in short range of time but yet the need for effective time manage is still hooting around in all countries of the world, but I believe the thirst of good time management would be quenched with taking into cognisance the importance of prioritisation.

   In the context of effectual time management, one need to be aware of the benefits that is attached to the activity one is engaging in, as the dais of effective time management stands on the tripartite concept of “orientation that answers the question what?, mission that answers the question why? And duration that answers the question when?”.

    A scholar once propounded that “what you know nothing about worth not engaging in it”, before you can engage in a particular commitment, you must have the up-to-date knowledge of what the commitment is about, you must keep yourself abreast of what will result from the activity you want to engage in, the premise of the activity must be studied so as to be apprised of the distractions, encouragement and discouragement that surrounds the activity.

   Prior knowledge and quenching of the thirst of the factor “what” will help you in distinguishing between productive and less or never productive enterprise and hence, this would help you in making a satisfactory measure of preference.

     Furthermore, after the details that defined your activities have been unveiled, is when you find your aim of involvement in the activity, it let you realize what amount of activism you should put in and whether the activity warrant the  loss of time that would happen in the long run.

    In the same vein, knowing the time that is needed to carry out each particular activity is necessary as it will help in effective prioritisation of activities without the time used for one disturbing the other, because if your time should be effectively managed, then you should be focused and determined, you must not be an activity greed as it has been revealed that indulgence in too much activity reduces the power within, it brings perplexity and instability, hence nothing would be achieved, which means for you to have a time well managed, you need a good sense of prioritisation.

Written by Mr Octomed