Lesson on Time Management

In our daily lives, there are so many things waiting in our hit list to get fulfilled and at the end of the day there are still more to finish, even after spending the whole day working on fulfilling them they are still remaining or spring up from somewhere or the other, these are little pit holes in our lives which makes our lives congested and confused. If we do a little of time management we can conquer any race or any battle. Time management have been taught to us from the very beginning, may be when we were in our 1st grades but in a different manner, even you might not be knowing that time that those were time management lessons we were learning at that age, take for example, reaching your class on time, doing homework on time, playing sports on time, drinking milk on time, etc. these are just some of the examples which we were used to, when in school and as we grow up, these become more important for passing our semesters, you work upon different projects, collect databases, etc. if you don’t do any of these, are you going to fulfill the need of your assignments, its no, right?

Managing time is important to grow in life and achieve what you are striving for, there are a number of management lessons and at the same time there are even lessons which helps you get free to manage some time with your family or loved ones.

Work is not just the only criteria to fulfill in life, as men grows in life, there is more meaning to life and rather than just money he feels a need to belong, belonging to a family, and that can only happen if you fit in that family in your fully packed professional schedule. What I am trying to portray you here is as much as time management is important to you from a professional point of view, you need to manage the same time with your family, below is one example which I recently came across during one of our management classes and I am really keen on sharing that stuff with you.

The class was fully packed with going to be management graduates and everybody had to share some illustration and give presentation, starting with the professor, he bought out a wide mouthed glass jar and started pouring some big rocks inside, until there was no space left for other stones to fit in, asking excitedly to the class if it was full? They answered yes, but he shoved some gravel inside and filled up the parts left empty by big stones. Again he asked the class whether it was full, this time the class said “No”. Again the professor started pouring in some sand and it did fit in the parts left empty by big rocks and the gravel and asked the class whether now it was full, the class said “No”, more excited he started filling sand inside the jar and asked the class whether it was now full, still the class said, “No” so he got a glass of water and poured it inside and this time he was sure the jar is full and even the class agreed, he asked to students what did they learn from this illustration, there were various answers, and cool logics relating to management in that question answer session but what really made my heart sink was the answer from one shy guy sitting at the back row, the answer was amazingly perfect and reached everyone’s heart without a doubt.

Now, you guys must be as anxious to know the answer as I was that time, it illustrates that the big rocks if not fitted first inside, you never will and the big rocks indicate your children, your family, your dreams, your education, your health, your personal time, and many other important things. It teaches us that you should put big rocks first otherwise you will never get them at all, if you look after little things in life like gravel, sand which will fill up your life, these are actually small worries and office tensions that will occupy your mind so first give preference to big rocks and then give attention to smaller things of life so identify the big rocks in life and put them in your priority list first. I myself learnt so much from it and each person I meet up who is rushing towards life achievements I remind him or her of this story.