In an average year of 365 days, there are only 262,800 minutes. In a lifespan of 80 years, there is just over 21 million minutes. That doesn 't seem like a lot, does it? One minute can fly by so fast that we barely even knew it was there. In fact, 262,800 minutes can fly by so fast that we barely remember our year or get anything accomplished. If you would rather make the most of your time, then you need to become more mindful of how you spend your time. Following are some ways to do that.
Focus Less On Time And More Of How You Spend It
Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun set. Yet, we have clocks, watches, and phones that help us keep track of every moment in our life. We have become obsessed with time, in a way, and that obsession is causing us to be more mindful of time than of what we are actually doing with it.
But, it is still important to get things done in a certain time period. So, we must be mindful of the time to some degree. The best way to stay mindful of time, but really stay mindful of what you are doing in the moment, is to use timers or alarms. Setting a timer helps you to stop looking at the clock and start paying attention to what is going on around you. You can become lost in what you are doing - spending time with family, doing daily tasks for success, cleaning the house, or whatever else, and instead of waiting for the time you have to switch gears and obsessing about it, you can be reminded of it with a simple alarm.
Take Care
It was Dr. Anthony P. Witham who once said “children spell love… T-I-M-E.” He was definitely onto something. Unfortunately, time is always a precious commodity for our daily life. Whether we have a new job, or we just need to make a cup of coffee or strip the bed, we always seem to be wishing time would pass slower.
Time, what is time, and why is it important? Well time is a concept that humans’ brains can perceive, in fact their brains basically construct the past, the present, and the future. Basically, time is a measurement system, and without it the human race wouldn’t have ever existed. Humans have a very simple understanding of time, and they still do not understand its full potential. Humans only understand the measurement of time, and the manipulation and capturing of time overwhelms them. To this day the only way humans have captured time is their memory, and even then they still get it wrong sometimes.
Time management techniques are essential to living your life more efficiently. Many people spend their days in a frenzy of activity but achieve very little because they are not concentrating on the right things. By using time management skills, you can learn to determine which of the things you do are important, which can be dropped, use your time in the most effective way possible, break down the roadblocks that waste it, and increase the effectiveness.
You never paid much attention to your clock. It’s just something that was just there, like your nose or the mole on your forearm. They all say you’re wrong to ignore it, to avoid it because you can’t stop fate. No matter how much you wanted to. However, you were never one to follow the rules. Instead, you push the limits, bend it all until it breaks. But as the seconds slowly counted down, you found yourself getting more and more nervous.
Time is of the essence, yet time is always passing. Time can be taken or given, saved or spent, but is not always the same for “time only existed when a measurement was being made” (19). Stephen Kern’s The Nature of Time introduces ideas and concepts of how time is seen, represented, and spent. Two key ways of looking at time are through the perspective of Public Time, and Private Time. Public Time, is the universally understood time; the time that we experience collectively and are kept to by a clock or calendar. The calendar “expresses the rhythm of the collective activities, while at the same time its function is to assure their regularity” into what we know as the collective Public Time (20). In order to understand Public Time, however, it first had to become universal. “While the year, month, and day have a basis in nature, the week and the hour are entirely artificial;” therefore, for Public Time to become understood by all, the artificial constructs of time had to become universally joined (14). Although the world was slow to accept a universal time, which would be altered by one hour between twenty-four zones, it soon became accepted and understood. The simple measurement of time introduces issues within time itself, however. Time does not stop and is not divided into bits as it is represented by its measurement. The idea of any measurement which does not continuously flow, contradicts the very concept of Private Time.
Time, from one person’s experience to another, from day to day, from emotion to emotion, varies more than the individuals who experience it. Yet time still can be measured. People, almost from the earth’s inception, have had a desire to regulate time. This is still seen today, with all the watches, phone clocks, wall clocks, analog clocks, digital clocks, grandfather clocks, atomic clocks, timers, and stopwatches. Unfortunately, while it is possible to measure the actual emissions from an atom’s atomic transition, it is impossible to measure time perception in different circumstances. Both the poem “Time Is”, and the statue “Father Time”, portray the integral role of time in humanity.
Thomas Jefferson once said, ¨Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the only thing he can afford to lose¨. What he is saying is that you should use your time wisely. By using your time wisely you can have more free time, feel less stressed, and even get your work done and go to two football games in the same week. Managing your time is the best thing you can do for yourself and your sanity.
I have always faced various challenges when it comes to managing my time. Some of the challenges I have are procrastination, knowing my priorities, and getting my priorities in order. I am very easily distracted and distractions are what causes me to procrastinate. I will tell myself that I will do something in five minutes, but then those five minutes go by and I tell myself another five minutes and so on. Putting time off is a way of telling myself that my priorities are not
Why is it that when you have to focus on time and pay attention to a clock it seems that it takes forever, it's like a minute isn’t really a minute and it takes longer than 60 seconds and when you don’t pay attention to a clock it seems to go buy faster than usual. Many people think time is something that
Nowadays, as modern societies provide an almost fixed time-table for humans to operate in various fields, we have far less freedom regarding our natural and momentary impulses than in the past. In other words, "we are increasingly detaching ourselves from organic and functional periodicity which is dictated by nature, and replacing it by mechanical periodicity which is dictated by the schedule, the calender, and the clock"(Jackson, 1994). The influence of this modern style of living on our sense of time can be seen on our relationship to every object we interact including buildings and architectural works.
Being able to manage your time is very important. There comes a point when time vanishes without even realizing it. Fortunately, with the help of Laura Vanderkam, anyone can gain control of their free time. She writes about time management which includes the many ways any person can utilize all of their time to the equivalence of their priorities. Throughout her presentation, she outlines the key steps in order to gain control of your free time.
Two time management procedures that I have developed are creating a daily plan and prioritizing tasks. Creating a daily plan allows me to assign priority to tasks. This practice ensures that important tasks are completed on time.
The concept of time can be viewed in heterogeneous ways. Time can be used as a currency in reference to the film “In Time” or time can be used as a notion of change, events and inconsistency. Time is the most overlooked backdrop of our lives because as a society who lives in a culture of instant gratification, we are impatient and value trivial things in life. We take time for granted.
When you go to school at the first day it feels like a long time for you to get their but the more you take that route to school there is nothing “new” happening, and your mind does not memorize the instances you are in. Other scientists such as Wallach and Green studied the way time is interpreted they asked young adults (ages 18-20) how they feel time are like, most answered with stationary motions like “motionless” and “quiet”. The other group (most around the age 78) described time as rapid, fast, and swift “time is a speeding train”. Other research furthermore added to the building
Before we can manage our time we must know exactly what time is. The dictionary describes it as, the duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal. How we dispose of that time is time management. It's the way we spend our time to organize and execute around our priorities. Remember just because time is intangible doesn't mean that it is not valuable. I want to teach you about the background of time management, the different styles and how to use them, and how it will change your life.