Can time ever be enough?
I don't know why I feel like time is running faster than it used to do, the gap between weekends now looks smaller. I don't know if it is true or I am the one who is thinking too far about it because I remembered when I was younger, the time was always slow whenever we were in school.
I don't know if it happens like that in only my school, I was always looking through the window because my junior class then had half of its walls underground so we don't get to see the sky.
Some days look like the time wasn't moving at all, the eight hours spent at school would look like double. I remember praying many that the time runs faster so that my math teacher wouldn't have to stay longer, especially on a double-period day. I am not sure if age caused me to see things that way but I would love the time to stop rushing so that we can have enough of it to accomplish more things in life.
Isn't it funny how we think that time was slow when we didn't have responsibilities, we thought it wasn't moving fast enough because we just wanted the free time to last longer, and anytime we were into something important, we just want it to speed off?
Now as an adult, it is the opposite. We feel like we ain't getting enough time to do everything we need to do and that got me asking if time can ever be enough for us to accomplish everything we plan to do.
I refer to time as one of the resources life doesn't give to us in abundance and regardless of how much time you think you have, it is always never enough except you use it adequately.
When I started blogging, I complained a lot about time because it wasn't easy adding a new task to my daily routine but I got to learn that the only thing that makes time enough or sufficient is planning and working according to plan. A friend of mine who is a programmer has a time frame for everything he does and he doesn't break it except it is very important, he has fixed hours for everything he does because he wants to be able to achieve a lot within his daily time frame.
It would have been terrible if humans had power over time, a lot of things about us will be unorganized because we can pause and play time whenever we like and the fact that time can't be held back tells us how much life wants us to value time.
Among the things, we can't recover when lost is time, just like the saying that time waits for no one - we just have to be on our toes always.
Valuing time doesn't make you a workaholic, many think that using time wisely doesn't give time for fun. That's not true, the truth is that you will have enough time for fun if your life is well organized.
There is indeed time for everything in life, if we prioritize what comes first in life then will have in abundance time for other things.
When I was working as a supervisor, I usually urge my team to work as early as possible. The sales job doesn't require you to wait for long because your competitors will hijack your customers if you love to delay and the strategy worked for us.
We move out as early as possible, make sales, collect money for the goods sold on credit in the evening, and close as early as 4 pm. While other supervisors wait till the next morning for new stock, I wait behind to get mine in the evening and keep it somewhere till the next morning so while others are struggling for the stock in the morning, my teams were out already making sales.
My superiors usually think we aren't doing anything and when they investigated, they discovered that our results are genuine but they didn't know what the secret was.
That simple process helps us save the time to do other things likewise my staff too.
Time management requires lots of discipline and it is one of the things we must do as an aspirant for bigger success, every successful person out there possess time management skill because it would be hard to talk about genuine success and not include time.
Are you struggling with time?
Set your goal and create a time frame for it. Setting goals require putting priorities firsts, don't mix up a time for work with that for fun.
Understand, that multitasking won't slow you down - it is one way to save time. Just ensure you are doing related things to avoid distractions that would slow you down.
All tasks should be done under a time frame, this would help you know if you are lacking behind or doing well with time.
Time can be sufficient and insufficient at the same time, whichever one we are experiencing is a result of how we are handling our time
We have only 24 hours daily and while some people complain of not completing their tasks for the day, some complete the same amount of tasks and still have spare time to do other things, the difference depends on how much value and importance we place on time.
Everything will place importance on its being treated adequately so add time to the list of the important things to you and you will experience the difference between what time you to be for you before and now.
I realized time tend to move faster if we are doing something we have passion for and it's fun but when we are doing something we don't really like but have to do (maybe like school or a job), then it's slower