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Imagine yourself to be a customer of a bank that
has agreed to credit your account each morning with Rs 86,400/- on the
condition that the entire amount must be spent by the end of the day. Better
still, if you fulfill this condition not only will the bank not demand back
its money, it shall credit Rs 86400/- again into your account the next day
as well. However, if any balance remains unspent, there is no provision for
carrying it forward to the next day. The bank gives an undertaking to honour
this commitment indefinitely provided you are able to finish the amount each
day.
What would you do? Draw out each rupee, of
course! The good news is that each of us has this account in the bank called
TIME! Every morning there is a credit of 86400 seconds and every night
whatever we have failed to invest wisely during the day is written off, and
is lost forever. There is no carry forward or overdraft of time. Each day
there is a fresh opening balance and each night the day’s record is erased.
If you fail to use the daily deposit, the loss is all yours as it’s not
possible to turn the clock back. There is no drawing against tomorrow. You
must live in the present on today’s “time” deposit. If you have invested
wisely you would get good health, wealth and happiness as a return on your
investment.
The clock is ticking so make the most of
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Along with clear goals the second
pillar of my theory is this interesting concept of time management. The
questions “where we wish to go or what we wish to do?” help us define clear
goals in life. Setting clear goals is not an end in itself but must be followed
by time bound action plans. However without proper time management it is
impossible to draw up time bound action plans.
Often people
are heard remarking, “There’s no time. I am very busy these days.” We tend to
excuse our inability to do things by blaming time or rather the lack of time in
our life. In that case my question is, “What do you do with your time? Where
does your time run away?” In 1999 Mr. Mohan Kapur of LMI introduced me to the
time activities chart. Later on I saw the same chart being actually practiced by
many successful people. Dr. Stephen Covey has written a book revolving around
these principles titled, “ First Things First”.
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