We all have a common bank account. This account is perculiar. We cannot invest into this account, make a deposit or obtain a statement. All we can do is withdraw. It is the bank account of time. Every day, we take another day out of this bank account, yet this valuable resource cannot be replaced. It is tragic that so many people take their time for granted and undervalue each day. It only takes a visit to a hospice to spend time with people who are terminally ill to truly understand the value of time and of using it well.
As a single parent, my time is divided in three ways: a third at work, a third at play and a third asleep. As I understand it, the primary reason for going to work is to earn money. Why do we want the money? To pay for our play time! Of course, there are lots of reasons why we go to work, and the greatest motivator in the world for all of us is to do something we enjoy. If we can achieve this during work time, fantastic.
We all have the same 24 hours in every day, which breaks down to 86,400 seconds. The busiest people in the world- still have only 86,400 seconds in their day. They may have less play time than achievement time- in other words, they work longer hours- but they still have the same hours in the day as all of us.
I am writing this down so as to teach my little one how best to manage her time as she progress from Primary to High School.
First, at the end of a day, just before I finish my work for the day, I will draw up my own TO DO LIST of the most important jobs to do the next day. Secondly, I will number the list of tasks in their order of importance. Finally, the following day when I decide to start work, I start at number one and keep on until it is complete and then progress to number two, and so on until I have strike off all the tasks on the list.
I have been doing this from my school days and this has work for me till this day when I am wearing multiple hats and has endless tasks to do each day. Well, instead of remembering my schedule and task list, I have to remember little one's activities and priorities too!
