Sunday, November 29, 2009

TIME MANAGEMENT

We are aware of the proverbs and sayings- Time is Money,Time and Tide waits for no one.Time is precious. Time management is important in life and profession.Time management is learnt in school.We learnt to write the examination within an hour or two. Our training in school help us finish the task given to us on the prescribed time.Education imparts the most required knowledge of time management.We may be forced to attend too many tasks at the same time. At that time,We must decide upon the priorities. Suppose you face the problems of aleaking tap,fused tube light,leaking gas cylinder. Your first priority should be the laking gas cylinder repair. Other things can wait for a while.

We should not brood over the past.The English poet H.W. Longfellow in his poem,"Psalm of Life", says, "Trust no future;however pleasant, Let the past bury its dead; Act-act in the living Present;Heart within and God overhead".
Some people feel that it is boring to repeat the same thing every day.It is our attitude towards the work we do that creates fatigue. I will narrate a story I heard some time back. A student asked a vegetable sorter in the New York Super market whether he did not feel bored up sorting out cabbages every day. The worker told that he did not feel bored because he has been looking for two cabbages of the same size and colour.He could not find so far.This illustrates that if we take interest in our work, we will not feel bored.A friend of mine asked me whether I don't feel bored teaching English Grammar and Shakespearean plays year after year. I told him that the topics are the same but my students are different. Each year I teach a new set of students; therefore I don't feel bored.

English men are known for their punctuality. They knew the value of time and that's how they were able to rule the world and it was said that the sun never set in British Empire. I used to advise my students to be on time for all the activities of the school.'Be in the right time :in the right place and in the right dress', if you want to be successful in life.The most successful people in life are those who spend their time usefully.A well begun task is half done.Therefore, let us begin our task with interest, let us be focused and let us know our priorities as well, to succeed in life.

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