Why is Time Management Important - Insights for Everyone

Why is Time Management Important - Insights for Everyone

Why is time management important? In simple terms, time is more valuable than money (hence the fact that we are able to trade money for time), it takes time to preserve our health, without enough time we cannot enjoy meaningful relationships and time cannot be retrieved once it passes into our past - regardless or whether it is lost, stolen or simply wasted.
Every day - and often every hour of every day - we are bombarded with opportunities that we must either accept or reject. A ringing telephone, a new email, an invitation for lunch, an advertisement enticing us into a store and many more. To be effective in achieving our life goals it is essential that we learn how to prioritize tasks so that we know when it is appropriate to allow some distractions and interruptions, and when we have to take more responsibility to stay on track.
No one wants to be a slave to urgent and unimportant tasks - or even urgent important tasks. Learning the answer to the question, "Why is time management important?" helps to make us free.

Time management is a particularly important skill in the technology filled world for two reasons. First, because of the labor saving devices we have at our disposal - washing machines, telephones and cars just to name a few - we have more time available to us than in times past. Second, because of technology we also have more overlap between what used to be a strict divide between work and personal time, social and family time and other activities. Mobile phones, pagers, fax machines and the internet are particularly responsible for these changes.

Also, the prevalence of advertising and the pervasiveness of modern day marketing make us susceptible to being distracted at almost any time of the day or night when we might be trying to concentrate on an important task at hand.

Different aspects of our lives require our time in some or another form. We have social lives, family lives, healthy pursuits, recreational and relaxation time, sleep, work, community activities, shopping and chores and emergencies.

Time management is important because it is the tool by which we make and defend our life choices. The simple fact of life is that almost anything that would be important for us to do will take a significant amount of our time. Say you wanted to learn a new language or attend a distant family reunion. These would be important activities that we wouldn't want to neglect for the sheer fact that something urgent but not as important comes along (it is not illegal to refuse to answer a ringing telephone).

If we are learning a new language we need time to learn to read, write and speak. To master vocabulary and grammar and conversation and to practice and to have long conversations with other who are fluent in the language.

Time is also important for us to use between activities as a buffer to help us recharge, celebrate our achievements, plan and prepare. It is essential that we rest our bodies to avoid injury, sickness and fatigue. And it is important that we have enough time in reserve for emergencies and for catching up on things that we have to put off because of the unexpected nature of many of life's activities.

Getting enough rest and taking regular breaks from our activities also enables us to be more productive in the time that we do spend working, playing and serving others.Unless can appreciate why time management is important and become good time managers we can never hope to be able to do our best at anything.

So, why is time management important?

It is the only element that we can actually control in our lives sufficiently to achieve our goals at work, home, sports, school or in the social arena. And we only have a limited amount of it. It cannot be saved, bought, sold or mortgaged. Time is an invaluable commodity that we must protect and nurture actively and take responsibility to invest wisely for the future. We only have one life to live. Time management can make it worth living.

Just chill...............agarbandhu