How you use your time determines the quality of your life. It determines how successful you are in business and how effective you are in your business and personal life. It is linked with your level of happiness in life. Time management is the most challenging skill in life to master. Most people don't control time ... time controls them. We spend our whole lives trying to acquire the skill to utilize our time to create the greatest return.

Time management is really self-management. It's the management of our self to invest our time in the highest reward activities – the activities and pursuits of life that create the greatest reward in satisfaction, relationship, connection, and equity return. Peter Drucker, the famous management expert, said, “You can't manage time; you can only manage yourself.”

Time is truly our most valuable asset. We do not know how much of it we posses. Each day, we possess and invest 86,400 seconds. The time of tomorrow is not guaranteed. If we are younger, the probability is higher that we will have a tomorrow, but it is not guaranteed.

“Unlike other resources, time cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or stolen, stocked up or saved, manufactured, reproduced, or modified. All we can do is make use of it, and whether we use it or not, it, nevertheless, slips away.” ~Jean-Louis Seran-Selseiben

Published: October 22, 2010

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