WHERE DID TIME GO - WHY CAN'T I MANAGE IT?

Have you ever wondered where your time went? Most likely you have. We all sit around looking back at a series of wasted time and wonder where the time went. Suddenly we realize if only we planned, organised, worked hard, and set goals, we would be looking back wondering how we can move beyond our already achieved goals. Unfortunately so many people do not plan, set goals, organise, or work hard to achieve the goals we planned. Don’t complain. You did it! You did not manage your time and that is where your time went!

Plan Ahead

Planning ahead is a step toward managing time. When we plan ahead is simply setting goals we can achieve over a course of time. Planning is the process of devising a realization of achievement. When we plan, we should plan both short and long-term goals that we can meet. Start with smaller goals. Work to achieve the smaller goals. Once we have achieved the smaller goals, our long-term goals will be an easy ride uphill.


If you plan ahead, reach for achievable goals, and make the effort to get to the top you have mastered one of the keys to successful time management.

We all make mistakes. We need to learn from those mistakes. If your plan is in action and you find a problem area develops, step back and take a good, long look at what caused the problem. If the problem occurred as a direct result of your planning scheme, then you know your plans need modification.

Time management is the process of making plans work, by developing skills and using actions that make the process run smoothly. Do not sit around looking back, since this too waste time if you are not doing anything about it. Take the step to develop a scheme that works smoothly with your schedule and situation. When you are planning, calculate factors that could change your planning scheme. Changes such as weather disasters, lost data, changes in relationships, family, and so on are some of the factors you should calculate into your time management plan.

Don’t fool yourself into believing that nothing ever changes. The fact is everyday all things are changing as a direct force of reality. The key to coping with these changes is to move forward with caution, do not worry about everything that is changing around you. If it is going to happen it will, but don’t let it be an incident caused by your negligence in time managing planning.

Everyday you should make list of the tasks you want to achieve and work through those tasks until they are completed. Anytime you complete a task, you are encouraging you self-esteem and promoting motivation toward another task.