Lost Time is Gone Forever

Have you ever wanted to have more time to do things and manage your time better for effectiveness and efficiency..? If affirmative, then the piece below that I got from Uju Onyechere, will be of great benefit to you. Check it out and enjoy it-

If we live 65 years, we have about 600,000 hours at our disposal. Assuming we are 18 when we complete secondary school, we have 47 years or nearly 412,000 hours to live after graduation.

If we spend 8 hours a day sleeping, 8 hours for personal, social, and recreational activities, and 8 hours for working, that amounts to 137,333 hours in each category. When we think of the time we have to work and play in terms of hours, it doesn’t seem like much. And when seen in the light of eternity, it’s but a fleeting moment.

I have had a number of people asking to be guided on how to write the book of their dream. My first question is what do you do? How many hours do you spend at work? What do you do with the rest of the time? Etc.

At the end of the day the problem is not that they don’t know what to write, but that they do not have time to write the book. One principle not known to many is that you can actually add more hours to your 24 hours a day. I will explain.

If your normal time of getting up is 6:30am to prepare for work, get the kids ready for school or any other way you start your day could be changed to 6:00am maybe the answer would not be far fetched.

If you could write or read for 30 minutes a day and you do it for one week, what that means is that you’ve added 30 minutes times by 7 which is 3 hours 30 minutes to your time. What you need to manage here is yourself not the time.

How would you like to add another month to every year of your life? Impossible, you say? Not at all. Listen to this: If you set your alarm to wake you up a half hour earlier, six days a week, you’d gain an extra three hours a week… three hours that you could use to read… to exercise… or to spend with your loved ones.

You do that 52 weeks a year and you’ve added 156 productive hours to your year. That’s the equivalent of adding almost a month of 40 – hour weeks to your year! Now think about it. Over a lifetime, that extra half-hour every day would add almost four years of 40 – hour work weeks to your life!

Most people don’t know this, but it’s true that regardless of what you do, your product and/or service, what you’re really selling is your time. Everybody sells time in the marketplace.

Time management system works if you’re well focused, know what you’re trying to accomplish, and stick to it.
There are six ways to improve your time. Analyze time spent. Clarify priorities. Create a planning system. Prefer the important first. Jump to it with an early start. And do it now.

Remember the words of Samuel Smiles “Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.”

You will succeed.                                                                                

Shalom!