Time Management

Time management has been discussed by many times and much more qualified people than me, so I am not going to tell any background story or motivational speech to consider time management. I am simply going to share what worked for me and may also help you guys.

First thing first one need to have clarity about what his goal is and how he is going to get it. Clarity not just in goal but also in resources, tools and process required to reach the goal.

Once one has sorted the above things then time management is the tool that will bring everything together. Actually time management is not just time management; it is management of combination of time, attention and intention. One has to understand this combination of time, attention and intention is limited resource. We can achieve which fits our budget of this precious combination. It’s true that we can achieve whatever we can dream of in bigger picture but right at this moment we have to start from where we are standing.

We have to understand how out mind works, our mind looks for some sort of feedback for our action that it can label as achievement or significant progress. This phenomenon demotivates us as everything is difficult in the beginning and everything takes more time than we think. Therefore instead of looking for results or progress it is wise to keep check on if we are paying our installment of time, attention and intention.

Having some mechanism to track our discipline of paying our installment has helped me allot. This mechanism kept me motivated, keeps me on track and gives sense of achievement every time make entry of my effort in it.

How I did it......

GOAL :

 I wanted to become fit. My goal was to be able to Run 5 km, be able to do 20 push-ups and hold plack position for 1 minute.

RESOURCES : 

Running shoes, yoga mat, HIIT tutorial, 3 slots of 45 minutes in week

PROCESS :

I planned to do 1 HIIT session, one running and one body weight exercise every week.

MECHANISM TO TRACK : 

I simply have on blank paper having written "Health" at the top, Monthly dates and a table having 3 columns saying HIIT, Running, Free body weight. Everytime I do my exercise I cross the date in the calender and add 1 to whatever exercise I have done.