TIME is not bad

Cursing time is no solution to the problem. Problems are part of life. At times these problems do not easily get solved or remain unsolved and one tends to blame the TIME. It’s a natural escape route. When the efforts to overcome the obstacles cease, the blame game starts and easiest one to be blamed is TIME aka LUCK (as explained in last post). Humans are very peculiar; they do not like to accept the blame. Blame is to be passed on and finally it stops at TIME. Is it the TIME that’s responsible for someone’s failure? Can we really say TIME is bad?

To clear or cross any obstacle one needs to take efforts coupled with ability. The combination of efforts and ability are good enough to clear the obstacles. If this combination is not in place then it is bad. Obstacles can come anytime, in any form, any shape, any size and needs to be cleared. One has just not to face the obstacles but overcome the obstacles. 

A story for the day. We all have been told, narrated, and read this story in our childhood. It’s a story of Thirsty Crow. The thirsty crow in the story realizes that water is available in the pot. It understands that the pot has narrow long neck and its beak is not long enough to draw the water from the pot. So there are two obstacles one is the neck of the pot and another one is short beak of the crow. Obviously it cannot do anything to elongate the beak, therefore there is just one obstacle and that’s the long narrow neck of the pot. Some efforts were already made to identify the obstacle. Now some more efforts and the ability to overcome the obstacle. The crow has to fly around and pick up the right size of the pebbles that would raise the water level. Just imagine a large size pebble that the crow would have dropped in the neck of the pot would have changed the entire story. So ability to identify right size of pebbles was critical and so was the distance between the source of the pebbles and the pot. Had the distance been large the thirsty crow would have been dead doing the trips to the pot. The thirsty crow over a period of time could drop enough pebbles to quench its thirst. Had the crow not put the efforts and had no ability the story would have been different.

Then everyone would have said TIME was bad……

Manage TIME

It’s universal that a day has 24 hours and each hour is of 60 minutes and 60 seconds make a minute. It’s same for all from east to west, north to south, rich to poor and with no racial discrimination.

I often come across large number of people who complain that they don’t have TIME. If everyone has same 24 hours a day then why do some complain about lack of TIME? There can be many reasons. For a workaholic, it may be the urge to complete the work in a given time frame. But the question that comes to my mind is about the time frame, who decides? Is it realistic? Are the priorities correct?  Are we trying to chew more than we can bite? Or are we racing against the time rather than going with the time?

THINK. I understand it’s a competitive world and one has to keep running and aspire to be the FIRST. And that’s perfectly fine, but understand the limitations, set right priorities. You will find it easier. Your ability to manage TIME is the critical factor, and that depends on your prioritization. Once clarity emerges your TIME allocation improves and then you will have enough TIME. And you may not again blame the TIME.

And finally………

I get reminded of a story, “How much land does a man require?” by Leo Tolstoy written in 1886. A farmer named Pahom is given offer to take all the land he can walk from sunrise to sunset, provided he returns to the starting point before sunset. The hardworking Pahom starts walking at the sunrise for this great opportunity. He travels mile and miles during the day to cover maximum possible land for himself. Unfortunately the poor guy fails to realize when to turn back, and doesn’t make it to the starting point before the sunset and loses the opportunity. Inability of Pahom to manage his time is to be blamed and not the TIME.

So let’s develop ability to manage the TIME.