Time Management

One of the biggest aspects of time management is being able to cut out the margins. The little spaces of time in between activities are the leading cause of failure to get everything done you want to in a day. After you calculate how much time you spend in between activities, time flies. Thus we are let unfulfilled and discouraged.

How much time is wasted? There are 1440 minutes in a day. Around 480 (eight hours) of those minutes are spent sleeping and another 150 minutes is spent cooking and eating food. The day is nearly half over. Assuming you work for eight hours a day, that is another 480 minutes; plus if you have to commute that is an additional, 60 minutes give or take. What time is left after all that? lets do the math. 1440 minus 1290 equals the luxurious sum of 150 minutes; just shy of two hours. 

now, that time can be used in recreation or pursuit at your discretion, but consider where that time could go if it were not budgeted. If you hit the snooze button, thats minus 10 minutes. If you cruise YouTube before bed, you'd be lucky to stay on just for 30 minutes. If you forgot something at the store before preparing dinner, that is another 30 minutes at a conservative estimate. If you got caught in commuter traffic, we would be tallying up another 30 minutes. 100 minutes have been whittled from your day with ease, doing unimportant and unplanned activities.    

The key to success, then, comes down to being able to cut those dead moments down. Planing and discipline are then requisite. Go to bed on time the night before, and you can wake up on time the next day. go to work early and slip past the traffic. prepare healthy, although minimal effort meals. Planning compounded with diligence is crucial. there is a quotation from the book of Proverbs that describes this concept: 

"There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; [and] the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces." -Proverbs 30:24-28

Those ants are not big nor fast yet they are prepared when the time comes. they do not allow for their time to be wasted. The rabbits (conies) know that they are weak, therefore, they fortify themselves. If one lacks discipline, then they need to construct a bulwark such as good friends, inspiration, and accountability to aid them; indeed, this is even good advice to the diligent. The Locusts know what they want and they go and get it, this creates unity without force. Once you are achieving your goals (no matter where you are) don't let go; the spider didn't! 

Ultimately, this formula will lead to better execution in managing your time and your day. It will help you achieve more and become more. It's simple. Just do it.