[2] Mind it! a diary of vagrant
journeys within the mind.
On making a strategy for a plan
to prepare a time management process to begin my work
I usually think
that I am unable to get all my work done in the time that it should be
completed. I plan to do my work within the time that it should be done, but
then I turn around, and find that the time has a-gone by, and there is nothing
left. So, I take the smart road. I start planning my work. And usually I find
that I have planned all my work very meticulously. Very soon, I reach the same
milestone – that all the time has gone by while I was planning to do my work,
and there is no time left to actually do the work that I was planning to work
on...
Now, I have begun
planning the time that I am going to work on how to plan perfectly. Very soon,
I guess that I will be able to divide my day perfectly into exact working hours
to (1) learn how to plan, (2) read very good planning strategies, (3)
understand the best planning strategies and (4) start making a time-table to
make good plans. This way, I will probably be preparing the best plan and a
superb schedule on how to begin my work.
I am sure that you
are now wondering as to why I am not just getting to my work and start
finishing it, instead of planning my work. That is very silly. That is not the
way of a super manager or an efficient worker. You have to have a time
schedule, to-do lists, a perfect plan and a list of team members to delegate
the various portions of the plan and monitor and supervise them while they
begin to start the work that you were supposed to complete in the first place.
Very soon, I have
begun to realise that I am never getting around to actually beginning my work.
I have therefore made a good plan on visiting the best book stores and surf the
e-marketing web pages to look for the most excellent authors and books on time
management, planning work and knowing my best psychological barriers in
planning my work. I have also prepared a good strategy to purchase such books.
I go to the best book stores, look for the books and check the prices and look
around if there are good sales. The best books are very costly. But, I am very
intelligent. So, I write down the title of the book, or take a photograph with
my cell phone, and get back to the house and surf 2-3 different e-marketing
sites. At least one of them is bound to have a sale on these books. Of course,
during festivals, New Year or Christmas or other times, they do have a super
sale. I could wait for those times.
This usually takes
about a month of careful surfing, keeping notes, checking my notebook,
preparing a checklist of the books that I want to purchase, and marking out my
e-calendar of the best super sale times. Finally, I am able to pick up the 4-5
really costly and most useful and most absolutely necessary got-to-have books
that will help me understand my inner self, recognise my time schedules and the
inherent problems that they have. One of these books is bound to help me
understand the gap between my energy levels, my problems with my aerobics and
thereby make it very clear that I probably need to take up yoga or meditation
because I am too stressed out by thinking of my plans.
One of these
excellent books instructed me that it is because of a bad sleeping pattern that
had accumulated over several years that my sleep was putting off my insomnia
and preventing me from picking up on strategic mistakes in my planning. Therefore,
my bad planning was hijacking my strategies and time management and preventing
me from doing any good work. So, I had to develop a strategy of my sleepless
hours, and I had to prepare a strategy for my good sleep hours. Of course, some
wise people had told me to do good reading during my sleepless hours, so I have
an excellent collection of books and magazines, newspapers and web printouts to
read up and catch up on whenever I cannot sleep. But, I seem to be always on
the internet or watching news channels on the TV when I am awake, so I am not
able to pick up my exact sleepless hours.
But the plan that
seems to really work is when I am actually sleeping. The book advised me that
our mind is the bestest when we are sleeping, and that since there are no
distractions, and before we pass on to deep sleep, we are able to plan our next
day in a most effective manner. So, I keep a diary, some pens and pencils, a
couple of torches and candles and matches to be ready when the idea strikes. Of
course, I can easily switch on the lights in the room and make decent notes, or
not switch off the lights through the night, and be able to write down the
thoughts whenever they come. But then, I would not be sleeping, would I?
I wait until I am
fast asleep and I have begun to delve deeply into my dreams. And, suddenly I
wake up. It’s usually because of a mosquito or a humid draft or just an
unpleasant dream, or most usually, it is due to hearing my own loud snoring. I
switch on the torch, pick up the diary and start writing down a list of to-do
items that I should work on, immediately on waking up, or for the morrow. This
list gets my mind to work on various other related actions, and I keep waking
up again and again to keep writing and writing and writing. Finally I am happy
that I have washed off all the points of distraction within my mind and I have
written them away. Now, I can actually get to sleep well. Almost, of course!
There is also
another strategy. It is popularly known as ‘minimalism’. This strategy is actually
quite silly. The idea is that one should make small lists – about 3 or 5 or 10
items only in the morning or noon or evening or night, and as far as I am
concerned, about 2 similar stages during the night after midnight. Start with
these small lists, and try to do the first one on each list. Once you have
ticked off the first item, go to an absolutely different list of entirely
opposite themes. Take up a very different task and complete that one. Jump off
to another thematic area, and complete another task. This helps you complete
about 5-7-10 tasks in a day. This is quite silly, believe me. Who benefits by
completing their work without a plan?
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