This is the fourth week of taskforce 5.0 and I can’t imagine how time flies. I feel like there is a lot I should have done so far. Maybe it’s a lack of effective time management.
So far, I’ve been delivering my tasks on time. But to achieve that, I had to make a sacrifice. I had to work extra time and use some of my valuable time for rest, fun, or time with my loved ones.
This week we had a session for time management and we did an interesting activity; CONGRATULATIONS! You just won a unique lottery. Your winnings (after taxes) come to a total of $86,400. You have to spend all of the money today. The money can be used for any expense, interest, gifts, or whatever you want, but you have to spend it all TODAY. If you don't spend the money it goes back to the lottery and no one can use it.
My first thought was buying a house. And then I started thinking about all other things I would buy since I had to spend all the money at end of the day; Upgrade my home office, go out for a dinner with family, hang out with friends, invest, donate to charity and give some to family and friends. This made me feel like buying a lottery ticket and dreaming what I would buy with the winnings.
Here is the connection to time management. Each day we have 86,400 seconds to spend. We cannot save it for another day and at the end of the day, it is gone. We have lots of ideas of how we could spend $86,400 in a day but not 86,400 seconds because we value money a lot more than we value time. Like our money, how we spend our time should be based on what matters most to us, like education, income, health, relaxation, and fun.
If I had a habit of managing my time through planning, I wouldn’t have to sacrifice my time. I would have done a lot of things in this past four weeks and still deliver my tasks on time.
Value time as you value money and you will be amazed how much more free time you have and what a great sense of accomplishment you have with better time management.
Remember that time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
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