Whenever I meet people they complaint about constraints of time in doing good things. I share the anguish and complaint of all those people because I too live in the same society. As per my observations, we waste plenty of time in doing trivial things. Where is the time to do serious things? However it may be the challenge to distinguish between trivial and serious work. But we do not have options, if we want to do something good & g8, we have to distinguish between trivial and serious works.
The other day I met famous businessman Mr Rahul Bajaj, he said that he does not have time to read books. Although, I have always been surprised when ever I have gone to Vigyan Bhawan, I found him loitering in the front line with dignitaries. Certainly how will he get time to do anything good & g8 in this life?
I met Mr Arun Maira, Member, Planning Commission, Govt of India. He is supposed to be another intellectual in the government circle who is little bit updated. I was surprised to listen to his agony that he does not have time to read. For last many months, whenever any program of national and International seminars appears in the news paper in any cities in India, his name will be there as a speaker or chairman of panelists. He is too busy to speak and attend national and international seminars to do anything good or g8.
Common men and women are busy in attending lectures, seminars, lunch and dinner in five star hotels being organized by MNCs or Indians companies including media, how could one get time to think and do good and g8 things?
As I was analyzing these time constraints issues after playing six good games of squash at DSOI in the evening of 27th January 2011, my wife birthday which we celebrated after coming back home by cutting cake with three of us, I was pondering about the time management issues in this country. I could come out with few steps which may help all of us to get some more time to do good & g8.
Few steps for time management to do good & g8 things are -
1. Don’t talk about corruptions – Media talks corruptions, leaders talks corruptions, activists are busy in organizing processions talking corruption etc. This life will never give you time to do something good & g8 till you keep talking bad & worse. It’s simple law of attraction. You can never do worthwhile things till the time you talk worthwhile things. So do not waste time in talking corruption, talk about new laws, good governance, talk about innovation, talk about good technology, effective leadership etc. You will have time in your hand.
2. Avoid watching Indian TV News Channels – TV news channels are wasting the time of people of this country. NDTV is influenced with communists & Bengal, AJJTAK is busy with suspence stories, India TV is very serious to talk about superstitions etc. No channel appears to be straight and genuine. That’s how we never encourage our children to watch TV, IAS aspirants watch BBC, business people attend live seminars and discussions to keep updated, they travel to USA or other developed countries to get ideas. Most top level people do not waste time in watching Indian TV channels. If you could unlearn watching Indian TV channels, this will save lot of your time.
3. Stop watching Cricket or its related news – Cricket has taken our precious time and energy for good of no one. It is such a time consuming game that the world has not accepted this as real entertaining or worthwhile game. I do not know who is responsible to make this game so favorite among Indians. Was it British? It has to lose its charm. That’s how it is reducing day by day. From five days test matches, it has come down to 40 and then now 20 over one day match. I hope that in the days to come some Lalit Modi will come and make the game of Cricket for one hour or two hours or three hours. If you have to see some game of more hours then watch Federer playing tennis. It’s great to watch those games not cricket. You will not be deprived of your precious time in life and while retirement you will not feel that you could not do anything in this life.
4. Don’t attend everything every time – People are restless soul. They want to keep themselves busy and active. If they are not able to keep themselves super busy they feel frustrated and isolated. To satisfy this human nature, they keep making plans to attend everything and every time as much as possible. That’s how Rahul Bajaj attends all the meeting in Vigyan Bhawan and Arun Maira is found in all the seminars. Can it ever give you enough time to attend everything or every function? No never so select the best one or two functions what suits to your needs and keep yourself free to do something good & g8.
5. Don’t learn but unlearn – Learning is endless. Learning is poisonous. Learning kills. You can’t waste your time in learning. I have seen people keep reading anything they get hands off or if their close relatives, friends tell them to read. They keep learning what the people around them tell them to learn. This is not the way to live life in 21st century. You should not take lessons or tips from close relatives, friends and colleagues. Tendulkar don’t keep learning everything, he has not done even college education. Rahul Gandhi do not learn neither reads book. Has Rahul Gandhi ever talked about which book is he reading? Never! Move ahead; take the tips from better media like BBC, TV channels, Internet etc. Unlearn old way of learning and keep unlearning.
Time is precious and as you grow in life, you must be judicious enough to save your time for better things. Life is very complex in the sense that you cannot do everything. If you do trivial things, you are not doing great things, or you cannot do great things. So keep yourself free. You must be able to discard trivial things and not waste time in doing too human things all the time.
You need to make yourself strong to have time in life to do good & g8 things.
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