Manage Your Time



The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for time and no marginal utility curve for it. Moreover time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday’s time is gone forever and will never come back. Time therefore is always in exceedingly short supply.

Ask a support staff by 5.00pm after a day’s work what she has been doing all day and you’ll be surprised that she may not be able to articulate a quality response. Why? She never had any support schedule for the day! Few people schedule a day well and have the discipline to follow it through. If you don’t intentionally schedule yourself for a day’s work, other people’s schedules will eat up your time. If you don’t know your name, you’ll answer to any name. If you don’t know your destination, just any bus stop will look like it! However, this is not to say that we should be too rigid on our schedules at the expense of team efforts and collective goals. All I am saying is that the exception shouldn’t become the rule.

Time is totally irreplaceable. We can substitute capital for human labour but there is no substitute for time. The only place you will ever be is today. You don’t really have the future. When you get there you will call it today. Today is the life you are living. Yesterday is in the tomb and tomorrow is in the womb. Yesterday is dead and tomorrow is not yet born. A duty dodged today is like a debt unpaid, it is only deferred and we must come back to settle the account at last. When you mismanage your time today, it will steal tomorrow from you. Today is a product of yesterday’s time management. Whatever you have today you traded time for it. Whatever you do not have or own, you have been unwilling to trade your time for it.
The currency of life on earth is time. Everything requires time. All work takes time and use up time. Yet most of us take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource. Time does not improve with practice but only constant efforts at managing it can prevent us from drifting.

Decide to intentionally manage your time well this week.

You will reach your zenith!

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