TIME MANAGEMENT

TIME MANAGEMENT "The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." by Michael Altshuler It is in this note that I want to welcome you all to this August edition of third principle of success to this great group called “BOTH SUCCESS AND FAILURE IS A CHOICE YOU MAKE” Nothing facilitates success easily in any field of endeavour as proper time management, every successful person you see today is a good time manager, and all genuine successful people know that the greatest management of all time that they need to succeed in life is time management. Why? Because they know that life is time and time is life and they are also aware that God has given every human being on Earth the same 24 hours a day so how you use your own time is what will determine whether you are going to be successful or not. Please note that every achievement or success in life has its time of accomplishment and immediately the time is gone through careless or laziness, the person will start suffering. In Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 God illustrates how crucial time is to both life and success, when He said that, “to everything there is season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, a time to die: a time to plant, a time to pluck up that which is planted”. Proper time management is one of the most important success principles that will enable us to utilize every seconds of our lives to add meaning to our future. After realizing how significant time is to human beings, King David prayed this wonderful prayer to God in Psalm 90:12 saying “so teach us to number our days, that we apply our hearts unto wisdom” "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein" by H. Jackson Brown. It not a surprise to know that every human being on Earth has the same 60 seconds that makes one (1) minute, the same 60 minutes that makes one hour and also the same 24 hours in a day. Furthermore, it is vital to know that both successful people and failure have equal 86,400 seconds in a day (i.e. 60×60×24 = 86,400) and remember that we have 365 days that makes one year so that means that all of us have the same 31,536,000 seconds in a year (i.e. 86,400×365 = 31,536,000) and the same is applicable to hour, we all have the same 24 hours in a day and what that means is that both successful and unsuccessful people have the same 8,760 hours in a year (i.e. 24*365 = 8,760) and that is exactly what both rich and poor people have equally. The big question now is, why then is few people successful while majority of us failing in life? Since we all have the same 31,536,000 seconds in a year and 8,760 hours in a year as well. The answer is few people that are successful have learnt that success is all about proper time management and they are good managers of their time while majority of us that are failing are yet to know that time is their greatest asset in life. Bible also reemphasized the vitality of time to human existence in Psalm 39:4 “Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am”. Extremely Productive People have efficient daily goals that enables them to manage their time productively and that goes a long way to empower them to make the best use of every seconds of their lives to achieve something meaningful. “Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.” by Brian Tracy Have daily, weekly, monthly and yearly and even ten to fifty years goals (checklists) of things you want to achieve with dates attached to, it helps you to always look for ways to be more productive and conscious of your time. Please note that every success in any aspect of life has a set time for its achievement as I said before, if you miss it, you miss out. So many people you see suffering or that are in ugly situation today is simply because they didn’t manage their youthful time well. Mismanagement of time is one of the major causes of poverty and failure; show me a successful man and I will show you a man that properly managed his time well years back. That is why goal setting that is well written down with a specific time of its achievement is still the best way to make maximum use of your time. I encourage you to write out your goals, i.e. those things you want to achieve in your life and assign specific time you want it to be achieved and follow it up sparely. Remember the word of Nelson Mandela that says "It always seems impossible until it's done." One of the best way to utilize your time is to use it to develop yourself to become one of the bests in your field because opportunity waits for nobody, for it is only those that are prepared that get it when it comes. Abraham Lincoln once said that, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” You need the understanding of time in order make proper use of it if truly want to be successful, success and time are inseparable because every success has a set time. Almost every celebrity in any field got to know where they belong on time and they stock there. John Dell of Dell Corporation became a president of the corporation at the age 14 years. Great Bill Graham started his ministry at age 20 years, you don’t have a spare life to live so use your time well, Normal Vincent Pale who wrote the book “the power of positive thinking”, wrote the book as a youth and got ordained into ministry at the age 18 years, and that book sold 20 million copies before he died. Every star you see in any generation has been an early riser, Jesus started his ministry on earth at age 12, majority of us Africans live to make a living, only few live to make an impact because we are late riser if we are riser at all. Many of us are already behind schedules, youth are to locate their bearing latest at 20 years, you know in football nobody will enlist you at the age 30 so you have to know where you are going now and keep going there. David confronted Goliath at the age of 17 years, Joseph became the prime minister at the age of 30, Genesis 41:46, David became a king at the age 30, 2 Samuel 5:4, in our contemporary time, former Head of State General Yakubu Gowon became the military Head of state at the age of 29 years and that goes on to tell you your season of enlistment. The earlier you begin your investment in your talent the richer your future becomes. "A year from now you will wish you had started today." by Karen Lamb HOW I DO MANGE MY TIME WELL? (1) HAVE DAILY, MONTHLY, YEARLY GOALS WITH SPECIFIC TIME ATTACKED: (2) DISCIPLINE YOURSELF TO FOLLOW UP SCHEDULES: (3) GO FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT: (4) TAKE QUICK ACTION TOWARDS YOUR WHAT YOU WANT: (5)CONSIDER THE FUTURE BENEFITS RATHER THAN IMMEDIATE SATISFACTION: (6) BE TIME CONSCIOUS: (7) AVOID TIME WASTERS: Thanks a lot for investing your time with me in this platform, send your view, contribution and comment as many of us will still learn from you. Happy new month, my prayer is that this new month of AUGUST will be a productive month to you even as you practice the topic of this month PROPER TIME MANAGEMENT. God bless you all.