How do we manage our time? Even religious scholars don’t agree on how time exists, whether in a straight path, a circular manner or perhaps it even ceases altogether at some points. It might seem like a futile effort to manage one’s time effectively. If you have little or no faith, the concept of time management can seem overwhelming indeed. It has been said intelligence is the ability to exist independently or even to continue independently as time passes.

Using time efficiently in our day to day lives can help us make more money, gain our independence from money pressures, and eventually help us realize a philosophical comprehension of time. The most likely reason that we do not attain our lifelong goals is the monetary restriction imposed upon us due to life’s twists and turns. If we assume independence from any white collar worker’s typical day in the office, we can embrace an additional easiness of time management. When given more time we become silent.  Silence’s effectiveness leads way to developing greater strength, truth and power. These traits lead way to a happier life.

Take a look at your day to day activities for personal and financial success through effective time management:

Organizing your time according to the Eisenhower technique makes logical sense, you develop skills to separate the urgent from the important and thereby proceed with more efficiency. Check with yourself on every issue and fit it into the mental diagram below:

Urgent and important - to do immediately.
Important yet not Urgent - enter this into your calendar.
Urgent yet not Important  - Delegate this generously while reducing involvement.
Not Important as well as Not Urgent - Dispose Promptly into the Trash.

If we are reacting to or receiving from our environment, this Eisenhower Time Management method makes a great deal of sense. If our work is dependent, this method prioritizes our work tasks.  However, we should also go a step further and see about planning and spending effectiveness.

Let’s examine the “time quadrant”. In the time quadrant are the dimensions Importance and Urgency.  Once again we’re not looking at work priority this time, but how to plan our time to plan our life.

It has been said by Steven Covey in his work, “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” in habit number 3, that putting the most important things first is an important lesson regarding Time Management.

Important as well as urgent - Daily Fire Fighting

Most people spend a majority of time in this get nowhere rat race. Take care to reduce the time you spend in this on this quadrant and be quick to delegate.

Not Urgent but Important - Think strategically about the big picture.

Look for the forest instead of the tree. Maximize your quality time spent in this area.

Urgent but not Important - Someone else’s emergency, not yours

Minimize your investment in these activities.  This is a where unhappy people spend most of their time.

Neither Urgent nor Important - Time Wasters

These activities are such as when you gossip over the phone, watch television, surf the internet for recreation.  Be certain to minimize on this.

Even when spending the majority of time in the strategic mode of thinking and, even when planning carefully, we can be overwhelmed with our day to day lives. To attain clarity and strength again we can retreat for a while. Somewhere along the line contentment along with happiness will set in if you develop your personal time allotments thereby helping you to truly be a fully inwardly motivated person.

Augustine of Hippo he pointed out, “there is only one word written on the eternal clock - now!” He used this metaphor to encourage us to not procrastinate. We also need to use intuition to make wise decisions. There is often not time to collect the information required to make informed decisions. We live in a very complex world and should not take the time to gather all the information when we frequently use our own intuition.

Ultimately, we need to give equal priority to our family or friends, leisure or pleasure as we do toward work.

By applying these simple time management methods to your life can help you become more effective as a professional as well as bringing yourself in into greater awareness of time. Increasing your own consciousness of a thing is the basis of improvement.