Strategic Time Management

Patching Time Leakage (a.k.a. Corralling ‘Dead Time’)

The most deadly waste of time is in not knowing how to use it.

We meet a lot of people claiming to be “busy”. In fact, it is becoming a commonplace that people use the status “busy” in responding to social queries. However, are these people really “busy” or is it a cover-up of mere poor life values and management, and perhaps an incapacity to handle life? There are hardly busy people — only undisciplined, disorganized, lazy or clumsy ones.

Another common social pet-phase is “no time”. Reviewing the modus operandi, it is not difficult to observe that most are dawdling their time and promiscuously dwindling their resources. All creatures great and small has 1440 mins a day, no more no less. Brutally speaking, use it or waste it, it doesn’t come back. It is astounding to even think of the time we have wasted.

Imagine just reading 1 page of a book, while waiting for the bus. It is with regrets that most people are just staring blankly at the road. Within 365 days, at least 2 books can be read. There is a wide difference between people who read, and people who don’t (again depends on what they read).

As my grandfather used to say “if I don’t get stronger, faster and smarter before night falls, I would be a fool for…