TIME IS KEY.

     Time is everything, we cannot manage it, and it’s constant, we manage ourselves in reference to time, in order to achieve best results. Self-management can be categorized into four major categories. These include urgent and important, important and not urgent, not important but urgent, lastly, not important and not urgent. Remember its self-management that will get you results not time management time is just a tool that we can control ourselves in reference to.
     Urgent and important things are those things that you have to deal with as soon as they arise, these include phone calls which are a must you take when they ring. Only a single phone can change the way you shape your entire day. These are those tasks that have to be dealt with as soon as they arise.
    Not important but urgent work include the knock of a friend on your doorstep asking you for company to the market place. These is where most of our time goes. We tend to jump into solving other peoples’ problems without thinking about ourselves. We would then spend some hours on the roadside just having small talks with friends we meet which won’t help us at the end of the day, we even end up being late for our own tasks. Minimize the time you spend on these category and instead relocate it to important and not urgent things.
       Important and not urgent work. Make the blue box your best friend.  Perhaps the box we should allocate most of our time because these are the things that matter at the end of the day. Going to gym is not an urgent task but it is very important at the long run for our own physical condition. Planning for our own future is not an urgent issue but a quite important one because at some point in our lives the decision becomes urgent and important.
    Not urgent and not important tasks are the tasks that do not count at the end of the day whether you do or do not do them. Like spending time worrying about things we cannot change or overpower, it may be society manners, political or whatever worry we do not have any power or chance of changing.
      A more elaborate way of time or self-management based on the four quadrants of time can be found in Stephen Coveys’ best seller: 7 Habits of highly effective people.

MEASURE TWICE CUT ONCE.

             Most of us have heard of these very basic rule in carpentry, perhaps only we did not know it can be applied in our normal lives as a principle in whatever we do. It’s the same saying as take time to sharpen your saw before you cut. Don’t you rush into action before you understand the procedures required for the process? Remember, Life doesn’t come with instructions, so take your time to write down your masterpiece before you can jump into action. A good start is a job half-done plan your steps well before you can start to execute them. Evaluate all the possibilities available you can’t miss one or two ways of doing something.

        Fail to plan then you planning to fail. Plan actions to be undertaken before starting to execute them. These gives a road map of what you want to achieve by the end of you actions. A plan gives you an outlook of the product you have to achieve at the end of the day. Life is all about preparation and you better be prepared well before you embark on your dreams. Just like we prepare for a journey, we all need to prepare before we can carry out a task. Convincing the mind before any task just acts to sum up the best possible outcomes. We get out of minds what we constantly feed in there. Just like we rip what we saw so we should fast create images in our minds then put them done on papers before we can create real life objects.

      Persistence breaks resistance. Prepare and then be persistence and you will surely achieve your goals. Sometimes all you need is courage to achieve your goals. In the battle between a stream and a rock the water wins not because of hardness but because of persistence. Take your time to define what you want on these world and then go for it. Cherish your dreams and visions as they the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievement.

    You can become an icon in the society or you can fit in but surely can’t do both at once. Napoleon hill once said time is a master worker that heals all the wounds of temporary defeat, and equalize the inequalities and rights the wrongs of the world. There is nothing impossible with time. Spend your time well and you won’t regret a moment on these world. Remember go slow to go fast, don’t rush and you won’t re-do the work again, just plan re-evaluate your plans then go to action knowing what awaits you. Imagination is better than knowledge because few have it, knowledge is easily available in books and anybody can have it whenever he reads. Your imaginations are sacred because they are purely the products of your thoughts and no one can corrupt them except you.  Time is all you have to be what you want to be in these world, spend it wisely.