Its weekend, Saturday morning and I am trying to go for a morning jog. I went up to the door and my wife called me up to get the milk. Again went back to the door, removed the milk and kept it in Refrigerator. Eh! Suddenly I realized; I haven't entered previous day's spending in Quicken. I went to my computer and tried to pull back all my expenditures for the previous day. Remembered and entered all of them. Oops! I was already ½ hour late to my morning Jogging. Never mind; I thought; it's after all a weekend morning and doesn't matter if I go a little late. Meanwhile it was the newspaper guy banging at the door. He actually wanted to give an additional supplement for weekend which came in free. Oh! Now that sounded interesting. I sat down a little while to go through the news paper. And the supplement had offers from around the city. Yeah! That sounded interesting to me and I was late for jogging. I was almost 1 ½ Hr. late. And the sun was bright up in the sky. I lost one day of jogging. I somehow convinced myself that its weekend and I can surely cover it up with an evening walk. But it never happened.
This happiness with almost everyone. We know we do have to complete a work by a certain time; but some way or the other; we try to postpone it. Trying to justify with inappropriate justifications. Do you know we can actually overcome this to a greater extent. The solution to this problem varies from person to person; situation to situation and nature of work that has to be done. I'll try to explain you with some more examples.
A good friend of mine; Mike ; has a very good 'Habit' of going for jogging every morning. I meet him in the park and after we jog, we sit aside for a couple of min's discussing things. I asked him how does he manages to come sharp at 6 to the park. No matter what; he is there at the park at 6.00AM. He said, there are many reasons for this. First and foremost is the fact that he sleeps early. This actually helps him get up early as he already would have the required rest. It would become easy for him to wake up. That sounded great. Next was that as soon as he gets up, he said, he takes a warm water bath. That helps him get refreshed. I asked him why would he bathe before jogging. He said it makes him feel afresh and he's ready to take up the next step for jogging. Wow! That sounded great to me. I knew this would surely help me (at least for my morning jogging).
It actually did, next day morning I got up early; and went to jogging without delay. This day I was there at the park waiting for Mike. I thought there could possibly be many such things/ events where we tend to fail just because we are missing the timing. We need to do certain things by time. If missed ; its gone for a toss. How do we overcome from this.
Its easy! actually as easy as ‘Just do it’. I keep myself organized with a calendar which keeps track of all my ‘to-do’ lists. Maintaining a calendar and a to-do list actually helps us a great deal. Seldom we realize the importance of it, but if we do, it just makes life more easier. I use the online calendar from Google which synchs with my PC and mobile device. This helps me be on time for almost everything.
Any personal life experiences related to time management would be of great appreciation. Please do share your views and/or experiences with this.
