How do successful people manage their time?
Whenever I do a program for entrepreneurs,
I will always ask this question to them.
‘Don’t ask, what do big companies do?
Instead ask,
what did big companies do
when they were still small that made them big?’
So, the question is not what do successful people do with their time?
The question is what did people do
with their time
that made them successful?
And the first thing is to identify your timewasters, time-stealers,
and plug those holes.
How much ever water I give to the paddy field,
if there are rat holes there,
the water will go into the rat holes,
it will not reach the roots of the plants.
If I do not create a discipline on expenditure,
doesn’t matter how much I earn,
everything will get wasted.
Same is the case with time.
We all have the same 24 hours.
From a pauper to the king,
everybody has exactly the same 24 hours.
Successful people became successful people because
they put their time to growth.
People who are not successful
in spite of the fact they have the same
God-given potential is because,
a lot of their time gets wasted.
So first, you have to identify what are all…
the time-stealers and time wasters.
People say, ‘I’m just killing time’
You don’t kill time…
Time is killing you.
Life is slipping one day at a time.
If you don’t make the most of today,
today is never going to come again in your life.
So, the first thing is to ensure that
you reduce the wastage of time,
in the name of ‘I need stress relief…
I need a change of mind…’
I think we’re wasting a lot of time
without realizing there are a lot of growth-oriented ways
by which you can have a change of mind.
That is the first thing.
The second thing is
to realize,
if everything you’re doing in life
is only after you reach a stage
where you cannot procrastinate it anymore…
Push it, push it, push it, push it and
push it to the 11th hour,
after which you cannot push it anymore
and hence you do it.
Then there is not going to be excellence
because everything that is done only out of urgency…
you can complete it
but there will be lack of excellence.
Look at all the people who are successful.
I think they plan to do
what is important
even before it becomes urgency.
After your health is deteriorated,
you’re exercising to manage urgency.
When you’re still healthy you are exercising
to manage what is the important thing in your life,
which is your health.
After I get a notice from the Income Tax department,
now I’m running with all files…
You’re dealing with urgency.
I’m maintaining accounts on a regular basis
and filing my Income Tax…
You are doing
what is important.
After there is a crisis in parenting
during adolescent years,
you’re running to counsellors to set things right…
You’re dealing with urgency.
Periodically, I’m investing enough time in parenting
to strengthen my relationship with my children…
You’re dealing with
what is important.
Ordinary people,
by investing enough of their time
in doing things that are important
before they become urgent…
they become successful people.
Where your time goes…
there your future comes.
If your time is all the time going to deal with urgency.
The future also will be managing urgency.
If your time keeps going to whatever is important…
then I think you script a very beautiful future for yourself.
I repeat…
Where your time goes…
there your future will come.
Thank you.
