Life Lesson

The Value of Time

As one gets older, they need to learn specific talents that will help them move on to the next stage of life. However, often people overlook important life lessons that are relevant in both personal and professional situations.

Looking back now, I wish I had been taught some lessons sooner in life. Making sense of the true value of time is one thing I think would have positively impacted my life. being able to benefit from and savor each moment of life I had never appreciated time, especially when it came to carrying out necessary daily tasks, since I was a little child.

In many occasions, I had ignored the critical aspects of my life or spent a significant proportion of the available time on matters that did not influence my life in the manner I would prefer. At a tender age, it is of the essence to dedicate an adequate amount of time to things that matter at each stage of development.

For instance, at a tender age, I preferred to sleep as much as I could rather than engage myself in the playground. I would have developed my talent in a given gave, hence missed an opportunity due to a poor understanding of the real value of time.

Pursuing Passions

Rather than lazy and idle around the house, I would have spent time pursuing a passion. Though sleep is vital in life, it does not confer any value beyond the recommended hours. Making sense of the real value of time would have informed my tendencies to take advantage of the available time to do as much as possible to accomplish important goals in life.

The process of learning some things in life at advanced stages of life is complicated and frustrating. In my case, I would have learned multiple games so that I do not lack something to do today. I perceived that later in life, I would have adequate time to pursue whatever I wanted in life. However, I find myself restricted with time making it impossible to even attend to important matters in life. Notably, I hardly have enough time to engage in enjoyable activities. What is unfortunate is that I had excess time at the early stages of life to pursue what I am trying to fix a time for today.

Avoid Procrastination

Another critical time management skill is the avoidance of procrastination. Many times, we are compelled to postpone those, which we perceive to be less critical at a given time despite having the time to execute such a task. Through procrastination, people find themselves having a heavy workload due to the tendency of working on projects towards the deadline.

Such leads to ineffectiveness in the execution of projects so that the result may not conform to the expected quality. Effective planning and time management call for one to execute tasks based on their position on the preference list, which is part of planning skills. As indicated earlier, I am not efficient as far as time management is concerned. I wish I had learned how to avoid procrastination early in life. Many challenges that I face in life today would have been non-existent. Therefore, time management is the lesson I would learn early in life.