5th October 2010
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
Og Mandino
When it comes to work, sometimes not doing any work is the best work you can engage in! Let's compare the way we spend our money. Just because we have money, we don't just like that spend it on things which we don't need. We would rather not spend any money than spending the same on useless things. We are intelligent enough to list two sets of things, one useful and the other useless. But do we use our discretion to identify useful activity and useless activity? Most successful people are good at it.
One of the most critical skills to accomplish great things in life is our ability to say `no' to unnecessary demands on our time. The arithmetic is very clear. If available time is dissipated, you will be left with zero balance. It is simple common sense of addition and subtraction.
Whenever we find it difficult to manage our expenditure with the available income, don't we sit and analyse which things we need not have bought and where we wasted money? The same is even more relevant for managing our time. You can earn more money by working more hours. But you cannot get more time when the available time is spent.
Practice saying `no', but do it tactfully without losing relationship. Be gracious with people, but ruthless with time. Don't be ruthless with people while unreasonable demands are made on your time.
N C Sridharan
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