The significance of time becomes much real to me everyday. The people who
appreciate time are the elderly.
Time is
everything. Time is greater than money. It is the alpha
and omega of man’s life. It is the summation of the most important things in
life. It is
one of the few things in life that can be enhanced so well that it becomes a
bulwark behind a person’s life and business. It is completely elastic. For instance,
while a lawyer could earn $1,000,000 from a case, a cobbler can earn less than
$100. The difference is the quality of the time that is spent. We just have to
learn how to heighten and exploit this powerful element.
My Observations about Time
- Everybody has the same amount, 24hrs.
- 20 percent of what you spend your time bring you 80% your results.
- 80 percent of what you do with your time just bring only 20 percent of results.
- As you rise up in life you have less time.
- When you are a beginner you have more time.
- Time depreciates when we do too many times, it becomes ineffective.
- Once you lost, can never be regained.
Time Enhancers
You decide how
powerful your time becomes. It is like the oil that we dredged from the ground.
The oil is filtered and we get different fuel with different explosive power. Through
distillation at different temperature we get petrol, diesel, kerosene, gas and
so on. But we know that gas is more powerful and most dangerous.
Enhance your time with the following;
Experience; people with experience achieve
a lot with few time, their time deliver for them.
Work; a lazy person wastes his or her
life, a hard worker has plenty.
Money; families with great wealth amass
a lot within a short time. The broke person suffers many years and often has
little to show for it.
Education; a good education would make
your more productive. Let that person rush to do business and you go to school,
graduate and what he suffered for you would get it within a short time with
less suffering.
Learning; by this I mean personal
learning. No school can teach you everything. I think those who have made it in
life are studious, they stay up long at night and read different topics from
different areas
You mental attitude; a person who is
down to earth and not haughty achieves a lot with their time. They apply their
life to better things in life and receive great returns.
Time Best Practices
Your attitude; the commonest complaint
is ‘I don’t have time’. For such people, I tell them no one has time ‘we make
time’. This means deliberately make yourself available.
Goal setting and objectives; this
should be with whatever you do. Without these you can’t know where you are
getting to in your venture.
Benchmarking; you have to keep up with the latest trends in
business. Yesterdays solutions wont do for today, we need to find new and better
ways of solving our business problems. Learn to do what others are doing.
comparison; sometimes you feel you are doing so well until you see what
your friend is doing, and though you are both in different ventures, you realize
you are not doing well enough.
Planning and contingencies; if you don’t
plan then you plan to fail as the saying goes. You have to do some scenario planning
for unfortunate situations else you might waste your time. Nothing hurts like
doing something and losing it all because you lacked some small money. Plans
and contingencies should always go together.
Focusing more on the 20%; I look out for
those things that bring me the greatest results. They are my first priority.
An eye on time wasters ; keep a watchful eye on these; some jobs,
cheaters (some employers, employees, friends, relatives) some activities,
inferiority, sadness and the like.
Starting over ; also don’t let failure
be the end of you. Am prepared to start over any day when things go wrong for
me; it is not what happens to us that matters but what we do with what happens
to us.
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