How to Make Best Use of Time?

Monday 16 November-2009

How to Make Best Use of Time?
How easy it is to waste time ! Nothing is more frustration or tiring either . we get tired merely from thinking about a difficult job or all the jobs we should do. We waste time by thinking about them instead of taking them. And we get as tired as though we had done a hard day’s work. In order to make the best use of time we have to;
Get on with it; it is so tempting to say to oneself; ‘I will do it in a few minutes”, or ‘I will do that tomorrow”,
Get on with it now!...
Stick at it: of course we have to be sensible about how long we keep on. Short breaks for coffee and a chat can help but not unless we set a definite time limit to them.
The best use of time is achieved by sticking at a job working at a steady pace.
Do the important things first. Get your priorities right and tackle important matters while you are fresh and your energy is at its peak.
If you waste time unnecessarily with unimportant work, you tire yourself out for nothing and end up worrying about all the rest that should have been done first.
Any essential job which you rather dislike should rank high in your priority list. The longer you leave it,, the less inviting it will be. You will keep thinking about it and it will worry you.
An important job well done gives you an emotional lift.
Plan your day, if you plan wisely, you will not overload yourself with an impossible programme. You will train yourself not to be upset it something happens to disarrange your day.
If you are making the best us of time, a minor interruption will not make all that much difference in the long run.
Live and work at a steady rhythm: once you master the art of working steadily : you will certainly make the best us of time.
When we live and work to a steady rhythm we do it within our capacity of achievement and enjoyment. Not too much, no too little but just enough . This is the golden rule for a happy and contented life because it makes the best use of time wisely.
Man’s behavior towards man is the true test of civilization.
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinion they from of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
Monkey and Mirror
The monkey once chanced to get a mirror. When he looked at his own image, he thought that the monkey is the mirror had a funny face. It grinned. The image, too, grinned. The Monkey thought that the creature in the mirror was mocking . He got wild. This reflection of his own face made him feel that the monkey in the mirror as ferocious. He got terrified and regarded the monkey in the mirror as dangerous. He retreated in fear. He saw the image retreating too. He gave smile. He saw the image too smiling then the Monkey thought of the creature in the mirror as a kind hearted one. He felt happy. He found the creature in the mirror happy too. The Monkey thought that it had to a friend in the mirror and carried it away –
Quote from Gita
Vedanta divides all our karma into five groups; the obligatory (nitya),the forthcoming(agami), the accumulated(sancita), the activated (prarabdha), and the prohibited (pratisiddha), Obligatory karma like ablutions and twilight devotions(sandhya-vandana) should be done daily. One doesn’t get any special result by doing them, but their neglect cause demerit. The scriptures prohibit stealing, killing and other such things-these are called prohibited karma. The accumulated karma is that which we did in our earlier births but have not as yet reaped its results. Some of its is being exhausted in the present life; we experience this karma in the form of healthy or unhealthy body and mind as well as in our life’s various struggles. This is called activated karma. Forthcoming karma is that which is done in this life or that which will be the cause of our nest birth.
I drive joy
There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 5 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive from? I am not robbing you of your joy; why should you rob me of mine. He asked. The critics were silenced. –Baba- Chinna Katha
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