Do You Experience Shortage of Time?

In today’s living, we seem to experience shortage of time or what I call time deficiency. Information age has something to do with this. We are bombarded with gadgets plus a worldwide access to almost everything.

People are never been connected and updated with each other.

In my elementary days, our big family (from grandparents to tito’s and tita’s to cousins) only has one gaming console, the Family Computer. During that time, if you want to play, you need to wait for the game, played by the big bosses, to be over (which is almost impossible to happen). What we do while waiting is read a book, play marbles or tagu-taguan (hide-and-seek).

We don’t have much choice.

Today, saying “I don’t have much to do” or “I don’t know what to do” or “I don’t have other options” is almost saying “I do not sin.”

Our time is now indirectly proportional to our choices.

To better illustrate this, I borrowed this graphic from the famous Seth Godin. 

Management of Choices

Since college I’ve been caught up in the dilemma of experiencing time deficiency. A lot of projects to do, exams to review, thesis to finish and girlfriends to show up (No, just kidding with the last example).

When I started to work, same thing.

Until one day, I asked myself, “How can I manage my time?”

So I started to Google time management, watched videos about it and read articles about it.

And then I realized that Life is about choices. Life is about series of choices.

Millionaire Bo Sanchez said “There is no such thing as time management there is only management of your choices, actually making the choice. Actually saying “I’m taking charge of my choices.”

Friends, if you do not choose, other people will choose for you.  If you don’t schedule your time, other people will come in, friends, barkada; things like TV and the internet will come and get your time.  

This is my big message for you this week.

Make a choice.

Have a blessed weekend!