Are You a Time Management Superwoman?

In religion and Biblical times, scripture states that there is a, “time for everything under Heaven.” Time appears to be an appointed benchmark or turning point of sorts to measure the past, present and future. Another interesting view.

In the science arena, according to the online reference encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Einstein said that, “The only reason for time is so that everything does not happen at once.” In this regard, Einstein said that time was basically what a clock reads; the clock can be any action or change, like the movement of the sun. Einstein showed that people traveling at different speeds will measure different times for events and different distances between objects, though these differences are minute unless one is traveling at a speed close to that of light. Again, another point toward measurement.

I discovered that time use research is actually a field of study. Time use research is all about the allocation of time spent on different activities in our daily lives, such as time at home, at work, shopping, etc. Time use is variable dependent on access to technology as well (with Internet, television, and radio being in that department) which allows us to appear to do things quicker and be limitless in the effective communication of time, people, places and/or things, and yet I believe is still all based upon one thing. That is the aspect of how we use our time, or manage to budget our time, in our twenty-four-hour days,  also a measurement that as humans we agreed to use thousands of years ago. Just as it is necessary to budget our spending of money, it is also necessary to budget our time and how we spend it. Unlike money, we are all given equal amounts of time as measured in seconds, minutes, hours in a given day, month and year of our lifetime.

With all this research, my preferred definition of time management that I use today is this. Time management is a self-disciplined, self-discovered tool by which is a standard of measure that we are all given to quantify our priorities in any given day. It is simply how we manage our time, manage our disciplines and ultimately, manage our selves in our mindsets in a balanced mental, physical and Spiritual manner of delegation of that time. How we utilize that time will determine our fate of happiness, success and personal growth. Period.