Introduction

Like plethora of time management books , ideas and principles being marketed, I hereby present
one of my version on time management.

The ideas I have presented here, were being thought,worked and experimented for the past two
years. Like I say, there are no orignal ideas but orignal copies, these ideas are too not wholly
mine,but borrowed from that source or these source. But these synthesis of various ideas have
worked for me,and I suppose it may work for you.

I am a philosopher( a person who uses too much of his mind or who over-analyzes things). And
therefore my discourse on time management starts with why, with that I start my discourse.

Why Time management ?

The development of human kind, has not given us more time ,but it has taken our time. Never
before in the history, men is so liberated. It can do manything, and this many thing has become a
two edge sword - many thing in work and many thing in recreation . And to do it , in a fixed value
call time.

The world consist of two kinds of people - maximizer and satisfier. Maximizer tends to maximize ,
and satisfier is happy with what they have. Now, this Time management thing are for maximizer,
those who want to do more things in their life, for satisfier, this is bull shit.

On what we do ?

Now those who are reading it, I may say that they must be a knowledge worker. A knowledge
worker is different from a manual labour. A knowledge worker work is not a physical work but a
mental work. And for me it should not be called a work at all. The work he do has got tangible work,
the work component that you see constitute only a fraction of his total effort, most of his work is
involve in collecting data, understanding, thinking and then execution. So the work should be
called as a project.

This can be generalized to all the work we do in the modern society from planning holiday(choosing
holiday on net, discussing , thinking) to getting our car for repair (when to give, which ).

How to manage projects ?

I am not a believer of any time management ideas which relies on scribbling on papers, on
computers ,or on PDA. Cause the problem with them is they overlook chaos, and hence need to be
updated every time. These so called to-do list or priority list believes in linear view of time. For
example

At time t-1 , I made a to-do list or priority list, at time t-2 ,after completing task A, I have to again
redraw my priority list, cause the information I get after working in project A, makes many other
projects redundant.
What I propose is to take one project at a time, and forget about other project , or don’t think that
other project exist. It has got many upside

More focus on the current project, and less tension of the future project because you have not
made them.
It will also eliminate multi tasking ,as you wont vacillate between one project to other.
Flexibility in choosing next project based on what information you have got after completing the
project

"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps
itself." - Leonardo da Vinci

1.5 Viewing your 24 hours

Some say, 11 players are needed to make a cricket team, some say , we need 6 batsmen , 4 bowlers
and a wicket-keeper to make a good "test" cricket team.

The idea is to look 24 hours as 24 hours or see them based on importance of each hour in the daily
day.i look a single day, as a metaphor of life

Early morning represents our childhood

Morning represents our youth
Noon represents our mid-life crisis
And evening represents our prime
And night is the time to retire.

Most people waste their childhood and youth, and hence have a troubled life. As one says "morning
shows the day", and I really believe that it is important to use morning for maximum advantage. Not
only one is fresh during the morning but also the quiteness in the morning is quintessence.

Some people will say , they are night person and would love to work at night, the problem with the
statement is that our body is a morning person.

Noon , I have labeled it a time of middle age crisis. The time when our body is programmed to slop.
A period of lethargy , a period of siesta , the most unproductive part of the day, and it should be
reserved for the most unproductive task ,like cleaning the work place or collecting information, the
passive jobs.

1.6 How to get about the work ?

'Not excellence. Perfection. You aim for perfection, you will attain excellence. If you aim for
excellence, you will go lower.' - J R D Tata
As a knowledge worker we have to deal with projects with no clear cut boundaries. So it becomes
tough to know when the work is complete. Consider making a project report, and there would
always be n number of things that needed to be done , the things always seems to be incomplete.

Also, the other problem is of striving for excellence, to make one work excellent. It is what makes
work motivation go down spiral, as there is nothing called excellence. It is a wild goose chase, a
fantasy that is doomed to die. What one can only do is strive for perfection, with a bounded time.
Not only , it will breed urgency but also motivate one towards perfection , cause perfection is
neurotic

A sense of urgency for me is the key for making the task complete, without focus and emergency it
is easier to slip in mindless details and after sometime one find himself far away from the shore .

Doing Knowledge project is like picking flowers from the garden, it is easy to get lost in the
beautifulness of the garden unless you are determined what flower you have to pick.

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being
willing is not enough; we must do" - Leonardo da vinci

1.7 Demanding from the day

Modern world makes instant celebrity, our life looks pointless. What we are doing . No mercedes,
No holiday at carribean, no big and lavish parties. And what is our job, what intellectual describe as
soul destroying activity. What is this I am doing with my life.

Well, to make my point, I am just telling that, there are three evils in this world
Money
Fame
Success

And then someone says, whats the point of living , if one should not strive for them.
And I will say, we have lived on this earth, we humans have lived in this world for the past 2 million
years, not wishing them. It is only the modern man who have created this devices, to motivate
people.

What is in work is this, in sort…

IT IS THE FLOW

There is nothing that gives man more pleasure then loosing his consciousness, loosing himself to the
flow of the world, hence we have
Alcohol
Drugs
Sex
Work/Projects
Sorry
Work/Project

Well here is the whole point, an artist love painting because he looses himself in the flow, a cricket
loves cricket because of the flow he get, the flow experience, and this is his main importance of
pursuing this activity. So we find a bankrupt and happy artist, cricketer who knows nothing except
playing cricket and knows his life is not going to better, but he plays because of the flow experience
he gets.

The point is, all this Time management is to make your day a flow experience, we manage time so
we don’t know it at the end of the day, you should come home and say " where all the time has
gone"

1.8 There are some projects that cant be finished in one day
There are some projects that cant be finised in one day or one year, or what one say some
improvement that can not be completed in one year, all you can do is to try and try, to move the big
wheel.

one important thing in life that is rarely taught in class and which is only taught in real life is
patience and its evil sister "frustation", patience is what optimistic see, and frustation what a
pessimistic see. And the important thing is , some project when we are struck, (as a knowledge
worker) , we got to have patience in trying to solve it,and I think this is an important reason for
variety of project failure, lack of understanding of "patience"

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year - Leonardo da vinci

1.9 Attire and Music

What is inside shows outside, and what we wear outside changes inside.

It is this, a good dress up will help you not to sleep and music will always keep you upbeat. Buy IPOD
nano, will help you to keep stress at bay, and wear good attire, will help to keep sleep at bay and
also keep your confidence up.

And also bath is very important , make sure you do that.

1.10 A note on Inertia

"Half of the work is to get it started"

The hardest part in a day is to wake up,
The hardest part in the project is to get it started,

This is the breakup of my work , on how I carry on my work

work Staring at work Doing the work

Report 20 2

bathing 1 hour 10 minutes

It is just, staring takes so much time out of , the blody inertia…

I have carved out the following reasons, which our mind make to keep us in the inertia

Ontological question :- the usefulness of the work

Existential question :- why to do it
Hedonistic argument :- Pleasure is what I seek, sleeping is the utmost pleasure I can get

And the problem is , at that state on the bed, I wholeheartedly agree with them. Inertia can not be
beaten, except creating more pleasure state that you are in, or by potraying more painful state then
the pleasure you are in.

Here are some thing you can do to counter inertia

Identifying that you are in inertia
Knowing that

1.11 Distributing project into small projects

"A truck is a big machine or an assembling of smaller machine , it is your point of view"

Together we stand , divided we fall, and I guess this is what happens with project. When a project is
looked in a cohesive manner , it looks intimidating and huge. And when we differentiate it, it all falls
down.

This is the skill one will need to develop, in analyzing the project you are taking. An ability to analyze
the work. And analyze means breaking things into pieces and knowing how one effect the other,
gaining the understanding of the work.

1.12 Some Project you have to complete it now

"I never used my shotgun, I want to keep it unspoiled, so when the bandits attack me, I shot at
them, only to find it locked"- policeman , after being shoot by the bandit (excerpt from joke books
retrieved from hell )
If you start postponing your dreams, the chances are that it will never come. And I guess , it is the
reason for some people are savers and whole life they spend saving, cause they forgot how to
spend it.

Some projects, like holidaying, starting a writing career, should be start from now, till it become a
memory.

And life is so cruel, that it will always give you enough reasons to postpone things. BE WARY.

1.13 the toughest thing in the project

It is the start and the end, in between you get a cozy ride