TIme waits for no one is a popular saying, and it is a timeless one as well. Everyone has the same 24 hours day and if scientists are anything to trust, it may not even be up to a proper 24 hours, a full day is 23 hours and some fractions.
Basically, the way a person uses his or her time, tells a lot about the person and significantly distinguishes such a person from the crowd. Proper time management is as essential as the very basics of life and living, such as food and shelter.
We have always been adviced to make the best use of our time. However, it is ironic to say that most of these our advisers are not good models of proper time management, because of the obvious, we are all humans.
So, as a human woman I am, I am guilty, time and again of time misappropriation, poor time management, and time malpractice (Lol!). How is that so?
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My worse time management crime is time misappropriation, taking time off for an important event and using it for something of very little or no importance.
As a side hustle, I thought a young girl at home, and I can remember time and again, how we just get carried by trivialities. She's guilty I must admit, but as a teacher and her mentor (at least during those days), I was responsible of piloting the classroom and deciding on all programme of activities, and trust me, fiddling with my smartphone and having the young girl crush on my young sibling wasn't part of the programme of activities, but unfortunately, it entered into the programme.
At least it made the child happy, as it wasn't all learning and learning, she had fun, and even wrote love letters to the boy at home who she just happened to see on the phone and haven't spoken to or even seen in person. As result of this unplanned distance relationship, we had to take time off from every day of lesson to service the relationship, just to keep her learning/going.
While it was fun seeing kids trying to do adult things in a kiddy way, the hard part was striking a proper balance between work and play, and when play takes most of the time, you know you've failed in time management, especially in a pedagogical setting.
What's more?
Aside from not being the best teacher in history (though my student loved me a lot and we looked strikingly alike, like mother and daughter), I can remember moments, where I just spend time scrolling endlessly on my phone, and funny enough, without a specific goal in mind.
So, in practice, I wasn't looking for anything, and I am not looking for anything specific, but I just keep scrolling endlessly. Granted, our phones were designed to get us hooked. But still, we should be the masters of our time.
Lessons Learnt
Time is just feeble. It is here now and it isn't here then. This advice still holds true: "Make the Best Use of Your Time".
So, like experts would recommend, prioritizing is one key to proper time management. If you can get the most important things out of the way, and follow through on an order of priority, we can be sure to be excellent time managers, that is especially true, if we are able to keep our mobile devices out of the way.