I
got a good review last week and I’m so excited about it. Read about it here.
In your quiet moments, what do you
think about? How far you’ve come, or how far you still have to go? Do you think
about the best that might happen in a situation, or the worst?
In this post I will be writing
about the connection time management has to many of the regrets we have. I am
sure you’re scanning your mind for the link between both. Well time is one of
life’s most valuable possessions, as it is something you can never get back.
Subsequently, one of the most essential life skills to master is time
management. After all, time management is really life management. Learning how
to make every day count for something is the objective. But it takes ridding
your life of procrastination and a great deal
of self-discipline.
Even
Oprah, a woman who has unarguably made a great deal of impact with her allotted
time on this earth, regrets time wasted. On turning 60 she lamented, “I
think the hardest part of aging really is recognizing the time that you wasted
and the things that you worried about that really didn’t matter…. That’s really
the only regret that I have.”
My
dad likes to say, “Rere, if you don’t manage your time well, people will help
you do it. It is not every place you are invited to that you go especially if
the person did not give you enough notice. They will keep you so busy with
their activities that you’ll forget what is important for your own life.”
Of course I have never agreed with
him when he says this, because it is at the exact moment I am going for “a
friend’s thing”. But to be honest I have come to realize that the reason
why many people grow up to have regrets is that they did not manage their time
well when they had the chance. I do not want to live my life feeling like I
have to attend to every other person’s beck and call.
In the world today, we have more
laid back people than we have ever had. Don’t get me wrong; the thirst for
wealth, fame and success has definitely increased but only a few are willing to
take the risk attached to getting these. There are many factors to consider
when we talk about time management and regrets, for example the kind of friends
you keep. Since we are all human and we have different races on earth, a friend
can either slow you down or make you run faster.
If you don’t set a standard for what you’ll accept in life, it will be
so easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that is
below what you deserve. It is not fair that you have to beat yourself up
about lost opportunities or misused chances. Why don’t you focus instead on the
now, and think of the chance you are getting to look back at your past and
smile.
What you didn’t do today will not matter in 5 years time, it is what you did
that will matter. Your life is yours to create – you are responsible for your
life. Managing your time well, doing what is important first and prioritizing
is very important in making important life decisions. Your choices, your decisions
should be hinged on what you choose, not what a friend who you don’t even know
his/her surname says.
One of the greatest regrets in
life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
So spend your time wisely, so as to avoid regrets.
