Time is of essence. A moment lost is gone forever. Therefore everyone will urge you to make the bed use of time. How do you really plan your day.
In my case it starts with my morning cup of coffee, cursory reading of newspaper and workout (when I am in the mood and routine for it). Otherwise it takes a brief hiatus until I return back to the daily regimen. Thereafter it’s time for bath, a brief prayer to God and breakfast. Once the morning routine is over it’s time to login to work until 1 PM. It’s lunchtime and then back to work. Around 4pm it’s time for a coffee break and then back to work until 8pm or so. Then it’s dinner time and I have to make smoothies for self and spouse. I might do some binge watching for some time until it’s time to say good night. This is how my week goes on for the last one year or so since COVID has made work from home mandatory. Quite a boring life is it not.
In case of my son he gets up around 6.30 am has his cup of milk, takes bath and is forced to do Sandyavanthanam. Morning prayer to God. Thereafter has his breakfast watching some videos on YouTube or some series in Netflix or Amazon Prime. It’s time for online school and goes on until 12.40pm. It’s time for lunch break with binge watching. Back to school until 3pm. Thereafter it’s studying time or for home work. Alternatively there’s tuitions some alternative days. In between he has his snacks and milk. Once it’s all over he goes down for playing and returns by 8pm. It’s time for bathing and dinner. Either he chats with us for some time or does some reading and goes to bed.
And then there is the lady of the house. She gets up by 5am. Boils the milk and has her cup of coffee with my Dad. She then goes for a walk with or without her friends. She comes back by 6.30 am and starts her cooking work. Typically by 8am it’s all done and she prepares hot breakfast for the family and it’s all over by 9am. It’s time for her to put the clothes for washing, dry clothes that are washed, fold clothes that are dried etc. There are sundry of tasks that keeps her busy at least until 11am. She has her usual round of calls with her Mom, Dad and others. She takes a breather before the afternoon lunch session starts. Once it’s over by 2pm it’s time for her break to catch up on some series or movies. By 4pm it’s time for coffee break and keeping all the washed vessels in their place. Around 5.30 either she goes for a walk or exercise. After 6.30pm it’s time to catch up with friends in the terrace until 8pm. Then it’s dinner time for son and binge watching until she bids the day goodbye.
My Dad has his usual day of routine as well for his age and space.
Everyone has their routine and life goes on like clockwork. I guess a vast majority of people have some kind of chores in their lives which is not uncommon.
So what is that I am talking about here and what’s the expectation from time manager perspective. I believe it’s more to do with alignment of your final objectives that you have laid out for your life. What is required to accomplishing that and how you can squeeze those activities given the limited timeframe one has in a day.
Those dreams, wishes or aspirations whatever name you want to call it, has to be managed along with your regular set of activities unless you truly can disengage your self from all of those and run towards your life goals. In other words you are willing to sacrifice everything else for your ambitions.
How many of us are truly pursuing our dreams. Very few…for it takes a huge amount of time, energy and sacrifice to keep going against the odds to fulfill your life’s destiny you have set for yourself.
As you can see…Time is the first parameter to achieve what you want to achieve as time lost is impossible to regain. It’s gone forever.
Therefore value Time with paramount importance as certain things are best done at certain ages or timeframe. Ambitions can be achieved at any point of time in life…so long as they are achieved…it is often said…what matters is how hard you tried no matter the outcome. Yet the world remembers those who finished at the top and not those who simply tried. I am not denigrating the efforts of those who never won or accomplished anything despite their whole hearted efforts. Absolutely not. If you have tried the hardest you’ll succeed. And if you don’t for some reason or the other, it doesn’t matter as you have tried and given your best possible efforts. You will definitely see some other good outcome as a result if not the one you had wished for in your life. Life is a lemon and it will give you a lemonade at some point in Time.
Beautiful Life 