This is going to be the first article in a series of articles where I express my views on certain subjects.
Word for the wise: word F_ck in the context of this series is used in its transitive connotation and not as its explicit variant.
First topic in The F_ck Series will be ‘Time Management’
One of the favorite lines about the time comes from one of the most controversial Guru’s of all time, Osho. Referring to time and the stress in the modern society, he said “You cannot waste something that you cannot save”. How true!
I recently received an email showing what saving ten minutes a day can mean in terms of one year and then it breaks down the math up to 50 years showing that we can save some two years, literally.
For many this email would have been an ‘gotta give it a try’ moment but for me it was a scorning one with my mind going “really, and turn the life in to an obsession to count time while the time passes us by?”
Our attitude about saving time has created a hysteria in our lives. We have lost the sense of cherishing the moments we have, instead, we are rushing through all that we ever have or will ever have: NOW in the impossible chase of ‘saving’ time.
While a general sense of where we spend most of our time is necessary, but a lunatic minute to minute accounting is not. Why should we not go crazy about this time management hype?
Why should we stay away from this conspiracy of making time a scarce commodity when it is not? Here are few reasons I can think of:
1. Too serious:
Because it sounds too serious and seriously there is nothing that serious about time (except if you are working in paramedics, bomb squad or other time sensitive fields).
Life is meant to be lived not rushed through.
2. Planning and time management are not same:
Having things planned out a head is quintessential in accomplishing anything but setting unrealistic time tags to it is where we create the pressure that is mostly uncalled for.
If something should take a month, why not assign it forty five days? Just for the fun of it?
This way, we not only enjoy doing whatever that is to be done but we will also have time for life while we are doing it.
On the other hand, we can set twenty days for something that should take 30 days, create undue pressure, and when the final product turns out to be crap we can spend another twenty days fixing it, in the meantime losing sight of life and not enjoying the doing what we are MADE to do.
3. Sticking to task rather than schedule is more sane:
Completing the task without need for re-work is more important than sticking to schedule and screwing the work only to spend exorbitant amount of time correcting what was messed.
Which is wiser?
4. Health:
Most of present day stress that exists now is uncalled for and much of it (if not all) stems from our default thinking about time management.
Stress has more adverse effects on health than alcohol.
5. Not everything is urgent:
We all know too well that boss always needs the report in an hour which sits on his/her desk for twenty days. There is no point in making everything urgent unless not doing will make someone jump off the building, but do not make people jump off the building for something that was never urgent.
6. Time crunch:
We always strive to save money because we feel it is scarce, not enough to go around.
Same attitude has plagued our concept of time. We feel that time is scarce and that we got to do too many things in too little time. Curious observation is that those that act as if time is scarce always miss deadlines and those that are cool customers finish in style.
There it is, reasons for us not to take time management so seriously and maybe if someone makes us believe otherwise, we can tell them in unison – F_CK Time Management and embrace life instead.
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