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by: JasonTickbourne
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When you are busily rushing through life with a thousand things to do you may not consider what is the most important thing in your life. The most valuable commodity you will ever possess is your time. Nothing else comes close and you cannot put a value on time. The richest man in the graveyard would give everything in exchange for the time you have.

If you had no more time then none of these things are of value any more. If your life were to end right now the value of a car or your home means nothing. Your pension may be of value to others but for you the game is over.

We have all sat and watched a TV program and after maybe an hour thought, 'Why did I waste my time watching that?' Doing that once is understandable but many of us do it night after night and week after week. With our time so limited surely we can make better use of our time than to throw it away like that?

We are fortunate to be here, living and breathing and able to enjoy wonderful relationships with friends and family. Spending quality time with your family is surely one of the most rewarding things we can experience. Yet, we have to work and by working we are able to support our families and enjoy time with them but we also work long hours to buy TVs, computers and gadgets when we could maybe make much better use of that working time.

Most decisions in life are a compromise. We have to make a judgement between alternatives and we forget about the time things take. If you were given a choice between having the latest gadget but losing 3 days of your life which would you choose? The offer is never made in such a way but if you have to spend three days working to get that gadget then that is effectively what you are doing. Giving up time for a gadget.

Very few of us pay real attention to our time steadily ticking away. We think of time as miutes rather than years. We rush to cash the train on time but we use up our time carelessly not thinking about how satisfying or rewarding our use of that time has been. We should think like a time manager. We are not talking time management for business here. We are talking about time management in our personal life.

Those people who do understand that learning time management can really help them make the most of their lives generally lead happy and rewarding lives. They may, or may not, be wealthy but they know the value of time. Other who do not understand run around in circles always struggling to keep up with the constant demands on their time.

Whenever you hear of a term like time management you will almost certainly think of it in relation to business and that is where it is most commonly practiced but it makes so much sense, perhaps more sense, to apply it to our personal lives. It effectively makes extra time for us to be able to enjoy the rewarding aspects of life.

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