I keep reading about different techniques online about managing time, its importance and the gross mismanagement chronicle too. However, I had realized that most people still don’t do it.

 I feel it is true because everyday when I leave home at about 6.00 am in the morning. I see some souls doing nothing but standing outside and talking to those early bird buddies. What a colossal waste of time!

Here is a little of my own experience when it comers to managing time and work. See how each and every hour is spent.

6.00 : Wake up

6.30 : Get the hell out of the house.

6.30 - 7.00: Listen to some great music while driving to work.

7.00 - 12: I have to take classes. I run my own business and I can’t even afford a faculty thanks to the exorbitant fees that they charge. I take a 10 minute break every one hour. So, please excuse me for that Human Lapse. My classes are fully technology enabled and I use my Laptop with a Projector to teach. So while the student folks are busy listening and taking notes, I am busy blogging, reading up, catching up with emails. The best possible use of every hour. How do you do that? Multi-tasking. Master it or perish.

12.00 to 1.00 : Writing. I am a freelance writer so I have loads to write and battle with the deadlines.

1.10 - 2.00 : Busy reading novels on the commute to my day-job. I commute by a local train that sets me back by 40 minutes. I can’t do anything but read or check mails on my phone.

2.00 - 9.00 : Holy God. All of this time is wasted. I don’t do anything except checking mails and reading up whenever my stupid boss allows me. Now you know why I am a rebel and what made me put my papers here? eh?

9.30 : I am home and start pounding away on the keyboard feverishly. I have to so much to catch up with. I mean the blog itself, the writing, the huge amount of Information, the emails that were left unanswered.

12.30 : Sleep. With a heavy heart.

The take away? Prioritize. For example, here are my three projects with different deadlines. Assume that today is a Thursday.

• P1 : Deadline was on Friday the same week.
• P1: Deadline on Saturday, the same week.
• P3: Deadline 10 days from now, a fixed hour project for a total of 20 hours ( Plenty of time, eh?)
• P4 : No deadlines given ( wow!)

A simple act of prioritization? The first thing to finish - P1 and that too by Thursday so that you have a buffer of a day. The second of course is P2, then comes P3 and the last one is P4.

Simple, isn’t it? But then, I realized something while I kept doing this for years now. Managing time is easy, but the will to do it consistently will beat the living hell out of you.

Caspice?

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