There are numerous people around us to tell us why we shouldn't do something. They tell us not to take risks, not to upset the balance which is imaginary. This is one incident that impacted me. As part of my job, I had to visit a person in Nagercoil and train some of his employees. After the training, I sat with him and the conversation spiralled out of the gamut of my job. This was an inspiring person who was always motivated and bubbling with energy. He told me his story, his rise as a businessman to become one of the wealthiest men in the region. I told him I wanted to do something like that myself and I laid bare a few ideas I had been toying with. When I said, ‘This is what I want to do, but I don't know how to make money out of it’, he laughed. ‘Forget the money.’, he said, rubbing his head, ‘It will come’. This made me pay more attention to his words. ‘When you are in the dark, you don't know where the bell is,' he said, expecting ack...
You may have come across any number of articles, speeches and books on time management. They are all spoken and written with either of these assumptions: we don’t understand time or we understand time. Unfortunately, all the people do not fit into these two categories. The perception of time is highly subjective. It differs from country to country, city to city, person to person and for the same individual, time to time. At times, we find ourselves behaving like we have no time to live. Other times we find ourselves relaxed as if we have all the time in the world. A self soothing argument would be that we have to do some tasks urgently and some others, at our leisure. And neither of these can be declared as right or wrong. What the time management experts are trying to tell us is this. (Read the italicised paragraph more than once. It contains a valuable message) This moment that you are reading this particular word is the moment you live in. Even the ‘particular ...