Time Management

'Life is time and time is precious' . These were the opening notes of the time management training that I attended today. Its one of the mandatory training that one needs to take up at Oracle. The training started at 9:30 AM and I was, as usually, late by 15 mins. Before even being asked, I gave some stupid reason for coming late, which the instructor did not even bother to listen. He immediately started off with the training. This was a full day training, which basically started with a pre-assessment test where in the participants are tested on some of the basic time management concepts and the the various tools used for doing so. This was done mainly for helping the instructor in deciding as to what needs to be taught.
After that, he introduced us to the concept of time management and dwelled up on the concept of life management and its relation to time briefly. He later explained us the eight different concepts in time management starting with attitude, goals, analysing, planning, prioritising, scheduling, procratination (the last one, I dont remember).
of all this, we had an excellent debate on the role of attitude on time management. One of the basic questions that was asked with regards to the attitude was 'Are you very much satisfied with your life?', for which, the instructor told us that the most desirable answer was 'Yes'. I could not really get that. I always felt that the moment one felt that one was very much satisfied with one's life, its more of less the end of growth in one's life. I'm not sure how much it makes sense to others, but, over satisfaction, according to me, reduces one's growth pace. The more you are unsatisfied with your life, the more you would try to be some thing more than what you are currently. This would force you to channelize your energies in expanding your mental horizon, there by making you some thing greater than you are already. Ofcourse, when I talk about dis-satisfaction, it should be a motivating one rather than a de-motivating one. There is a lot of difference between the both. But, one point I realized today in addition is that success also gives motivation. Though I have never experienced such a thing, I still feel that its possible. Probably, once you taste the success, you can never imagine being with out it, there by motivating yourself further to go for it. But the catch here is after tasting the initial success, if one just feels so contented with one's achievements that one simply fails to see the path to success anymore, then, its a down fall again.
After discussing a lot about these issues, we went on to discussing about the kinds of tools that we could probably use in order to manage our time and life properly.

Finally,wanted to share with you, one good quote I heard today:

Whether you think you can or whether you think you cannot, you are right
- Henry Ford

Thats all for now,
Luv