An important step in self-development is time management or punctuality. If you can’t control your time, it will be a waste of time as well as your intellectual development will be hindered. Chances of success will likewise perish. Because the time that is wasted from your life, the part of the day that you wasted unnecessarily, you will never get back. As a result, there will be nothing left to do but regret the time wasted.
Success through punctuality!
The more successful the people in the society, the more advanced the society, the more noticeable is punctuality. In a backward society like ours it has become a fashion for responsible people to be late for any appointment or function. The more important the person is, the late he arrives at the event and wants to assert his importance. It doesn’t matter if it’s a VIP. Ministers think they will be late, people will wait for them. So they do not even show the slightest courtesy to express their sorrow even if they arrive an hour, an hour and a half, sometimes two hours late. Thus it has become a normal thing for us to start programs or talks late or to show up late somewhere. The situation is the same in other backward countries like us.
What is the reason for not paying attention to the time of different countries?
In African countries it is considered normal to start something late. Time is not considered an important factor there. Like our country, no social, political, business event or discussion starts or ends at a specific time. When it begins, it begins, everything goes on in a silent slow motion, when it ends, it is finished. That is, no binding ties of time are immovable here. There is a proverb in our country, ‘before eating, at the end of court’.
But the advanced nations, who rule the world, are always very conscious of time. Punctuality is an integral part of their daily life. Being late is a shame. Ministers are not shy about arriving an hour late to our function here. But in Japan, a minister arriving even slightly late to an event makes news. So we can safely say, punctuality is the symbol of an advanced mindset. And not paying attention to time is a sign of backwardness and stupidity. So in order to be successful in self-improvement, you have to be punctual in every task. You have to take control of your time.
If you have a bad habit of being late then the following 6 small steps can make you punctual:
1. Appoint a friend or colleague as your associate timekeeper. Don’t hesitate to take his help to be punctual. And encourage friends or associates to tell them what inconveniences you caused them to be late.
2. If you care less about how time flies, buy a ‘beeper watch’. The clock will alert you to the time with a sweet chime every hour.
3. Allow some extra time to avoid delays. Don’t rely on opportunities to make excuses. The excuse of traffic jams is no excuse at all, because now traffic jams are a casual affair.
4. Reward yourself. Three times a week, reward yourself for getting to work early. Buy yourself something, thank yourself. And punish yourself for being late. For example, if you arrive more than 15 minutes late to order food at a restaurant, pay the food bill yourself or stand up and sit down in the bathroom 15 times.
5. Keep the clock moving forward. Timely work can be easier if the clock is advanced by 5/10 minutes.
6. Don’t make excuses for being late. Arriving late at work is usually driven by a subconscious thought process – such as, ‘Everyone is late, I was late too,’ or ‘I worked a little longer yesterday, I was late today,’ or ‘What is the harm in being a day late.’ Such excuses or rationalizations will only hurt you. Because the time lost from your life will never come back. And the bad habit of procrastination will hinder your progress. You will be seen as irresponsible in the eyes of your superiors at work.
One of the best ways to streamline your life and move towards success is to offer autosuggestion in regular meditation. In meditation go to the house of the mind and say every day: ‘Every action of the day is important to me. I will do every work on time. Be punctual in keeping every appointment.’ And you to make friends, acquaintances or colleagues punctual
You can take the following 6 steps.
1. Remind them of their responsibilities. call them Force punctuality. Explain to them why you are angry that they are regularly late.
2. Don’t be too polite. If a friend or colleague is repeatedly late for a professional or business appointment, feel free to tell them you don’t like being late, and if they feel uncomfortable saying so, let them.
3. Do not wait for a guest if he is unusually late for dinner invitations or if it has become a habit of him to be late. You start the diet.
4. No need to listen to anyone making excuses for being late. Tell him directly, because listening is wasting more time.
5. Choose a place to wait where you won’t feel uncomfortable waiting. It’s much more relaxing to go to a bookstore and browse a book than to sit and wait in a restaurant.
6. If someone is late, you leave without waiting. By leaving, he will easily understand your feelings.
These steps are the tried and tested method for being punctual yourself and getting others to be punctual.
What is the way to understand time in daily life?
You don’t need to be Einstein to understand time in everyday life. Einstein’s theory of relativity is not very important in everyday life. The universal principle of time is that each of us has an equal number of hours and minutes each day. You cannot accumulate these hours and minutes, nor can you exchange them with anyone else. Time is precious. But there is a difference between this value and the value of money. Money can be saved and loaned. Can be borrowed if necessary. But time can neither be borrowed nor borrowed. Time that is gone never comes back. A fundamental truth about time and money is that we need a lot of both. The demand is so high that the demand is not easily met. Almost all of us think more money would be better. A little more time would have done the job well. Work cannot be done smoothly due to lack of time. It is not possible to be happy with the family, it is not possible to be absorbed with oneself.
Why moan about time?
It is our generation that complains of lack of time the most. No matter the whining, consulting time management experts will make your life so mechanical that you’ll gasp. You will suffer from stress or depression. Too perfect a personal action schedule will only add to your anxiety. We know many methods or methods of how to proceed according to Karma Nirghanta. We will now see how we can fulfill all our needs. You need your own control over time to fulfill your needs.
Following the steps below will put you in control of your schedule rather than your schedule.
Determine Needs!
Then Achieve The first step to saving time is prioritizing work schedules. A thousand different types of work can be done at any given moment. But it is most important to be able to determine what work specifically needs to be done right now.
Abandon immature ideas!
Let go of the superman idea that we want to do everything perfectly. And the urge to do something big puts an indescribable strain on our nerves. But there is a big difference between wanting to do great things and doing great things. If you want to do big things, you have to skip many small things.
Declutter To reduce work clutter!
Divide your backlog into two parts. One is urgent and the other is important. Urgent groups can also contain many trivial matters. Such things as the boss shouting, the telephone ringing. Most of the times it is seen that we get more busy with trivial matters. In this regard, experts advise that focusing on important issues can have long-lasting benefits and save a lot of time.
Save time for long-term goals!
You’ll always find time to do important things, after fulfilling the needs of the moment, there is no time for long-term work. Set aside half an hour to an hour each day for long-range goals. Later in life you will find that this half an hour to an hour gives you great satisfaction.
List all required tasks!
Prioritize by numbers Make a list of all the things you need to do. Then give a number from one to ten based on importance. One is the most important, and ten is the least. Then number each item on the list based on urgency. One is the most important, and three is the least important. Then fill in the number of importance and urgency. Consider the least number of tasks as most important and urgent.
Do the prioritization strategy!
Another important strategy for prioritization is to prepare a daily to-do list. Write down what you have to do throughout the day. Then mark ‘A’ next to the most urgent tasks. Then estimate how long this task might take. If you find that all the tasks are taking more than eight hours, shorten the list. Try to do things throughout the day.
Get your work done!
Many of us work out of order. It takes more time. A little conscious planning can save both time and money. Write down the names of your subordinates and send them directly to the papers that they can do to clear the table and reduce workload. Keep the papers on your desk that you will only do yourself. Don’t clutter the table with unnecessary paper. Studies have shown that only 20 to 40 percent of the paperwork that lands on your desk is necessary. 60% of the paper is unnecessary. And only 5 to 10 percent of the papers you file will be of use to you. So feel free to discard unnecessary papers.
Avoid wasting time!
It’s not that we don’t have time, in fact we feel like we’re too busy. But a great deal of precious time is wasted, that’s right. A lot of time is wasted without our knowledge. Even if this wasted time can be saved, it is possible to add several working hours to the day. Uninvited Visitors and Phones 50 to 60 percent of our day is wasted dealing with uninvited visitors and on the telephone. As soon as such an uninvited visitor enters your room at the office, you leave the chair and stand up. ‘How are you?’ Instead of asking, smile and ask, ‘What can I do for you?’ Place a large clock on the wall in the office so that you can look at it whenever you need to. Then you will see that the conversation is not getting unnecessarily long.
When you call someone, don’t waste time trying to find them and call them. Instead, let them know that you will call back at a specific time. Ask someone to ringback at a specific time. If you call someone in the office, do it shortly before lunch or shortly before the office break so that the telephone conversation does not take too long. Foolishly, we often spend a lot of time preparing for work. For example, preparing mentally by having a cup of tea or coffee before starting work or glancing through the pages of a newspaper before making a phone call. Skip all these preparations and go directly to work and get it done. Reward yourself with tea or coffee after work.
Final Word!
Taking these small steps can save you valuable time. You can get rid of long lines. We don’t really understand how important time is. Not only has modern civilization considered time to be important, but the Holy Qur’an also clearly states in Surah Ar-Rahman, ‘Kullo yaomin hua fishan. Fabi ayye alaye rabbi quma tukajjiban.’ That is, ‘Every moment of time My glory shines in a new form. Which of my gifts will you deny?’ In fact, wasting time amounts to neglecting the bounty and glory of God without realizing it.