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  • Neha Khandelia ! C.A. by Profession - Artist by Passion
    Neha Khandelia Class of 2012-13 Commerce

    Professional Achievements : Chartered Accountant

    • Time Management

      Murari Jangir  12/16/2010

      In reality the most important thing for you to do is to keep breathing,
      if that doesn't happen then nothing else will happen. But in the context
      of this discussion I'd like you to assume that all the things required
      to stay alive are being done. When I talk about the most important thing
      I am talking about the most important of the things that you have the
      choice to do or not to do.

      Most of the things we do in life are a
      matter of choice. We decide what and when we eat. We decide whether or
      not we work. We decide who we talk to and who we don't talk to.

      Many
      of the things we do fall into the urgent category but they are still a
      choice. If the plumbing in your house totally failed then I am sure you
      would put fixing that plumbing into the urgent category, but it is still
      a choice. Millions of people in the world have never had the luxury of
      plumbing. I would not want to change places with them and I'm sure you
      wouldn't either, but my point is that in a first world society most
      things we do we do by choice.

      So how do you decide which activities are a higher priority than the others?

      The
      traditional system is to divide all contenders into urgent and
      non-urgent and then to divide them all again into important and
      not-important. This gives you four groupings.

      There are things
      that are both urgent and important and you give this group first
      priority. Things that are important but not urgent and you give this
      group second priority. Things that are urgent but not important, this
      group is given third priority. And last on the list are the things that
      are neither important nor urgent.

      This is a reasonable way to
      organize your time and most peoples' lives would be greatly improved by
      following, daily, this simple system.

      However I believe that the
      most important thing for you to do each and every day usually doesn't
      fall into the top category and therefore I suggest that you make a
      slight alteration to the standard system in order to ensure that this
      activity is given number one priority each and every day of your life.

      My suggestion is that you make as your number one priority each and every day the taking of some goal directed action.

      Goal
      directed action rarely falls into the urgent category because not doing
      it will not threaten your life. However, not doing it is a massive
      threat to your potential quality of life.

      Your lifestyle could
      be one hundred times better than the lifestyle that you have now. Even
      if you currently are doing very well it is highly unlikely that you are
      doing anywhere near as well as you could be doing if you were performing
      in life to your full potential for success and happiness.