Saturday 24 January 2015

Time management- A necessary skill for the twenty first century

Time and tide wait for none. A student studying for his examination probably understands this phrase more than anyone else. No matter how many days of prep leave you get, you're always tensed about the exam, always feeling that you've done less, always thinking you're going to get a bad score. Here is where time management comes to the rescue.

Time management is essential in every person's life. Be it a school-going kid, a homemaker or a stock broker, unless you've charted out your jobs and given a fixed time for them, things are going to take a turn for the worse. Talking from a student's point of view, we need to manage our work only during the "exam time". This is when all hell breaks loose. More than ten individual subjects to study, plus practical examinations and your occasional reading time, planning a schedule is the easiest way out of this labyrinth.

I believe in starting from the basics. More than the recalling time, for me, it's the reading time that matters. If I read it, I know it's in my head somewhere and I'll just have to rummage through my brain to find it. May be a bit tedious, but it works for me. So dedicate a lot of time reading. The next thing is the importance of taking a break at the right time. You may study for three continuous hours and take a break for the next hour and a half, but it simply doesn't work that way. Study for shorter durations of time, take shorter breaks and gradually lessen the amount. The final thing to do is, recalling. Recalling what you've studied is the toughest, most demanding part of this whole exercise.  Dedicate an entire day just for recalling.

Another important factor in time management is what to do during breaks, spend time on the internet, read a novel, watch television? The answer is to do something what makes you feel relaxed. The whole point of the break is to give your brain a time out for a while ans avoid it getting a short-circuit! So there it is. Decoding time management. If you get a hang of this, life would become so easy.




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