...Time Management "Things that mmost should never be at the mercy of thing that matter least". atter We, as human beings, let this happen much too often. Many of us waste our time on things that are neither important nor necessary, instead of using that time for thing of that are significannot . Time management is not only how to get more out of you're time, but really how to become a better person. Time is a very hard thing to manage, because we can neither see it or feel it until its has passed. Before we can manage our time we must know exactly what time is. The dictionary describes it as, the duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal. How we dispose of that time is time management. It's the way we spend our time to organize and execute around our priorities. Remember just because time is intangible doesn't mean that it is not valuable. I want to teach you about the background of time management, the different styles and how to use them, and how it will change your life. Background Time management today is not as it was in the past. It has grown with time. Stephen R. Covey places time management into four generations. He feels it has evolved the same way society has. Each generation grows on the one before it. For example, the agriculture revolution was followed by the industrial revolution, which was then followed by the informational revolution. The first wave or generation is basically notes and checklist...
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...HOW TO SPEND YOUR 168 HOURS A WEEK WISELY Time or the lack of time is a major problem for many college students. The week won't expand to 200 hours, so it's up to you to make your activities fit the time you have. Follow these directions and use the calendar on the other side to analyze your time use and find some solutions. About 100 of the 168 hours are taken up with sleeping, eating, personal care, travel, chores, religious activities, and some leisure time. TOTAL THE HOURS ALLOWED FOR CLASS, STUDY, WORK, AND OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES. EXAMINE YOUR SCHEDULE AS IT IS FIRST, FILL IN MAJOR COMMITMENTS AND PERSONAL TIME: Pencil in all your class times, work hours, and other regular commitments such as meetings and practices. Allow for travel times. Allow time to shower, eat meals, do laundry, shop for groceries, etc. REMEMBER TO ALLOW ENOUGH TIME TO SLEEP! If you consistently try to get by on less then 7 hours of sleep per day, you may risk your physical health and undermine everything else. It's true-- you should allow about two hours of study time for every hour you spend in class. A 5-credit math or science class requires ten hours a week to read, study, and do homework problems. Schedule study and review times as soon after classes as possible. Allow study time every day for difficult subjects. Study specific subjects at specific times- math at 2 on Sunday. Try to study at the times of day that are best for you. If you are at your best...
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...Time is said to be eternal. It is said that it has neither a beginning nor an end. Yet men are able to measure it as years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds. They have also given meanings to the words – past, present and future. True, time has a meaning. It moves. What was yesterday is not today. What is today will not be tomorrow. Yesterday is gone. Today is and tomorrow is yet to come. Yet time is said to have no holiday. It exists always. The entire creation moves on according to a time pattern. There is birth, growth and death. There is time for everything. Plants flower and give fruits. Seasons come according to time. A child is born, grows into boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and old age according to age and time. Every movement of creation is linked with time. One cannot grow paddy in a month nor can a child become an adult in a year. Everything is fixed to a time-frame. Time is a free force. It does not wait for any one. It is commonly said that time and tide waits for no man. Time is money. A minute not usefully spent is an eternal loss. You can never get back the lost minute. One has to strike the iron when it is hot. The time flies and never returns. If you waste time it wastes you. ‘Time is the best medicine’, says Ovid. It is said that time heals all wounds and it even heals what reason cannot. All human beings are emotional. When negative emotions like fear, anger, envy and jealousy overtake them, they lose reason and act in haste leading...
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...What is time? In a physical sense? In psychological terms? What does time do? How does it work? Can it be transcended? Time in many ways is like space. In physics, time and space are woven together, like a fabric upon which all matter lies. At the limits, near the speed of light, movement in time is yoked to movement in space. As spatial speed increases, temporal speed slows. Recent quantum physics, in the area of non-local phenomena, suggests that both time and space are not as they appear on our scale of existence. It appears that particles, separated in both space and time, interact, in a simultaneous manner. Indeed, in one of the strangest experimental effects, the future may causally impact the past (the implications of that one will make your head spin). Distant particles are somehow connected, are somehow not distant. It is as if the space and time between did not really exist, nor the proposed distinction. Rather, these physicists (cf. Yakir Aharonov, Jeff Tollakson, and Menas Kafatos) suggest that perhaps there is an underlying singularity or unity to matter, across both time and space. Many spiritual traditions, philosophies, songs, and so on have suggested similar ideas: "We are one, heartache to heartache....love is a battlefield" Pat Benatar. Beyond funny ‘80's rocker references, such notions are at the heart of spiritual practices, across the various world traditions, even mainstream Christianity which proposes that God exists outside the bounds of time. This is...
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...Literal Analysis Essay Time, a subject as universal and engaging as life itself. In a sense, without time the world would be a vastly different place. The way in which we perceive our lives based on this unifying concept plays a strong role in how we go about our days, months, and even years. The idea of time not only plays a factor in our everyday lives and productivity, but it can also take shape in our literature, media, and an overall means of expressing ourselves. Time is what helps organize us and our hectic schedules, the fortifying force that keeps our lives from falling into chaos. The progression of age is seen as a biproduct of time, a change in the senses. In a way, the idea of time is as crucial to us as breathing. The imagery and emotion shown in Ernest Hemingway's short story “A Clean, WellLighted Place” address the importance of time in a powerful and depressing manner through the characters of a drunk old man, two waiters, and the setting of a night cafe. The idea of the vastness of time can be intricately depicted in his detailed imagery, from the way the old man remains in a sense of aged loneliness while retaining his sense of self, as well as the sympathetic relation the older waiter holds towards the drunk man. As crucial, and sometimes fearing, as time is in the natural aging cycle of life, it can also be a gatekeeper of youth and social engagement, as depicted in the younger waiter. In the on going race...
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...Time Time once gone is gone forever. You do not acknowledge how important time is until you use it all up. You have so much more control over your time, than you will ever realize. There is no specific word that can describe what time means. Many people see it from different perspectives and have their own meaning about what time means to them. Time revolves around our daily lives and our brain simply cannot catch the number of things that changes every second. Everyone can tell the time, but not everyone can be in control of it. Beauty of time. An example of a point of view from an incredibly smart and amazing person really got to me and got me thinking. He had so many things to say that made people stop and think, unfortunately he ended his 20-year career recently. Kobe Bryant. Even though you might not be interested in basketball and anything related to it but this person has described one perspective of time better than anybody will ever be able to. In one of the interviews before his last game, he said, “If I had the power to turn back time, I would never use it,” then he adds. “Now that I think about it, because now every moment that you go through means absolutely nothing, because you could always go back and do it again. It loses its flavor. It loses its beauty.” It’s one perspective to see what time can mean in someone’s life. It doesn’t need to represent something specific but everybody needs to understand how valuable and precious time can be, no matter how...
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...The Time What is the most horrible of institutions that ever entered human lives? Anyone, by the perceived notion of institutions might start listing education, family, marriage, state, religion etc. But, if we think once, all these institutions have something in common. They are all time - framed, time – bound, and submit us to conformity, which is again fitting itself into the framework of larger time that is life time. So, I would say, it is time that is the major institution that changed the face of our lives. Not only ours, but of course of the whole human society, be it in any part of the world. If you are someone like Plato, you would say, there is no such thing like time that is making life hard for us. Instead, it is the idea of time that is responsible for all the commotion. Well, I do agree with such people and say, “The Clock is the culprit”, and enquire how this dire consequence happened to us. Unfortunately, to track how this at all happened, we should still rely on time, gazing back at the past, so that our arguments would make some sense. By this, we could say that, time is eternal to our lives. It neither has a beginning nor ending. The entire creation moves on according to a time pattern. Time is one of those many necessary evils that happened to us. Tracing back to history, we don’t have any evidence to suggest when the word ‘time’ derived or established semantically, but the word ‘clock’ is derived from the Latin word ‘clocca’ which means ‘bell’ or French...
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...Time. Many people use their time differently, Some use there time inventing, inspiring. There is one thing that everyone can agree on is time is not something to waste. Steve Jobs once said, “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone ease’s life. Don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” .this quote explains time well because you don’t want to let other peoples options get in the way of your goal and cause someone to waste their time. One will never know when their time will be up, Good time management for a student requires three points. One step to make time management effective is to develop a time strategy. The time strategy should be based on a short list of time priorities. This short list forms the basis for a student's time planning for every week of the year. The dictionary definition of the word time is “the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.” My own personal definition of time is the opportunity you are give to succeed of or fail. The first of the three points that a student should keep in his or her mind is not taking on more than he or she can handle. If a student has scheduled to many classes to take in one semester...
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...Time Management Families are so busy these days. Trying to juggle work, school and domestic tasks is a huge challenge. The term time management became familiar in the 1950s and 1960s as referring to a tool to help managers make better use of available time. The term appears to indicate that time is managed, but actually activities are managed over time. (Rogelberg, 2007, para. 1) The basics of time management are easy to understand for the most part, it is implementing them that is the tricky part. This paper will go over some tips for time management. When deciding how to manage ones time, it is important to pay attention to the big picture. According to the writer, it can be extremely beneficial for the person to remember the long term and short term goals they have set. “When you develop a goal, make sure that it is a SMART goal. Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic and Time bound”. (Clark, January 4, 2010, tip 1) A good exercise can be writing down these goals. According to the writer, it is very easy to lose sight of these goals in day-to-day life. As a parent the writer knows how difficult it can be to balance goals for school and work with raising children. “Set firm limits about what your child can do after school. Make clear what jobs you expect to be completed by the time you come home. Posting a family “to do” list on a bulletin board may be help”. (Foley, 1993, tip 2) Setting jobs and chores for the children will help reduce the obligations...
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...Psychological Time Time is a vital dimension that attributes to our perception. The perception of time incorporates interval length estimation and subjective passage of time judgments. Interval length estimates are defined as “the subjective evaluation of duration of time.” When in the course of the study researchers use verbal estimation which allows them to break the barrier of this perception based experience. Interval length judgment is dependent upon methodological factors which the study paradigm is of great importance. A pivotal point in any study based on time perception is between the retrospective and prospective paradigm. The retrospective paradigm is where the study participants are not aware that they will have to estimate interval length. The prospective paradigm is where the participants know in advance that they will estimate the interval length in the midst of others tasks. Researcher’s findings point to the cognitive load as being one of the most important variables that determines the interval length estimates. In the retrospective paradigm the more difficult the task the longer the interval is estimated. Researchers believe this is because the amount of information encoded is used to make estimations on the time elapsed. The prospective paradigm the interval is perceived as shorter than it really is when the task is difficult. Researchers believe that a person has less cognitive resources available to process the temporal information. Objectives...
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...Time Management Activities | Trainers Warehouse Blog Home Recent Posts energize learning! Favorites Shop About Contact us Time Management Activities POPULAR LATEST COMMENTS TAGS on APRIL 19, 2011 in ACTIVITIES, ICEBREAKERS Looking for a Time Management activity? Try one of these: The Jar Divide the group into teams and give them each a large glass container. The object is to fill their containers with as much material as they can. The material can be rocks, stones, gravel, sand etc.. (But you can use anything.) The larger materials should be placed in the container first and then followed by the next to the largest, and so on… In this order you should be able to fit the most into the container. You can come to your own conclusion for the activity based on your need. The rocks (due to size) would be the most important items to complete. (Can be home activities…work/life balance.) Then stones would be every day has to finish items. Gravel can be the projects that need completed. Sand could be the extra work that was just assigned to you. Communication and Listening exercises APRIL 5, 2011 Time Management Activities APRIL 19, 2011 Memorable Debriefs (last updated March 2014) MAY 11, 2011 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Activities JANUARY 30, 2012 5-Minute Competitive Games MAY 4, 2012 Search... CATEGORIES I allow the groups to fill their own container without detailed instructions. I tell them ...
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...Time Travel Have you ever thought about how vast the universe is and how little we know about it's secrets?About how insignificant the earth,which is infinite times smaller than the universe,is but yet is so essential that we would not be here without it?About what lies beyond this ever expanding universe?One thing we must remember is that everything in the universe obeys the same rules or laws;Be it on earth or anywhere else in space.This helps us put certain limitations which helps us predict the way the universe works.We know for one thing that every single thing in the universe is attracted towards every other thing,however insignificant may be its value.Using these universal laws many hypotheses have been created.Like for example,time travel is now possible(in theory) but only in the froward direction as it is impossible to undo what has already been done.but time travel into the future is now possible though the idea may seem very very far-fetched.It has been proved through physics that if one were to stand in close proximity to an object of very high mass,to an onlooker (very far away and preferably not close to any high mass object) he would have slowed down in time.For example if I were to stand right next to the great pyramid of Giza and my friend were to stand a long distance away and see me through binoculars there would be a slight time lapse.Now lets think big.....what if instead of the pyramid it was a black hole? The mass of a black hole is huge!Time around...
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...In Aldous Huxley’s “Time and the Machine” the author is unenthusiastic with the use of the present generation’s use of time management as opposed to previous generations. In the past, people were more involved with nature, they enjoyed taking walks and kids ran and played outside more. Nowadays more children would prefer to remain in doors and play video games or surf the internet instead of a game of “jump rope.” Nature is relevant in this work due to the author’s frustration with time being spent elsewhere instead of with nature. Place is referred to how time is different between generations of the past and generations of the future. “Eco-Defense” by Edward Abbey was a very interesting periodical. Abbey stated that it is essential for people to care for and defend their wilderness as if it were their child because it is their home. He made reference to the government valuing more for their pockets/own personal gain and big business rather than the value of land and the people. His work was very interesting to me because God created Man from the dusts of the ground, so the wilderness is our “home.” Nature is represented by the wilderness and place is given presence by the difference of what we consider to be home. James, M. & Merickel, A. (2010). Reading Literature and Writing Argument (4th ed.). Prentice Hall. Mallory I really enjoyed reading Eco-Defense. Abbey’s call for people to defend their American wilderness was insightful and interesting, as he claims that...
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...Professor David Durniok Assignment 2 Transfer Time 1. Fill in the Transfer Time column in Table 1. State all times in appropriate units (seconds, minutes, or hours). Show all your calculations and number conversions. File Size | Transfer Rate | Transfer Time | 100 MB | 56 Kbps | 5 hrs | 100 MB | 4 Mbps | 3.3 minutes | 2 GB | 56 Kbps | 83.22 hours | 2 GB | 4 Mbps | 1 hr, 8 mins, 16 seconds | * Take the 56kbps = 56,000 BITS per second, divide by 10 and you get 5,600 bytes. 100,000,000 / 5,600 = 17,857 seconds = 297.6 minutes = 4.96 hrs (almost 5 hrs) if there is no interruption in the transmittal. * 4Mbps (megabits) equals to approximately 500KB/s (kilobytes). 100MB (Mega Bytes) equals approximately 100000 KB So assuming you can have a perfect transfer rate of 500KB/sec (assuming there is no TCP/IP overhead) you divide 100000KB by your 500KB/Sec transfer rate: 100000 /5000 = 200 seconds 200 seconds divided by 60 = 3.3 minutes. * 2GB * 1024MB/GB = 2048MB 2048MB * 1024KB/MB = 2097152 KB 2097152KB * 8Kb/KB = 16777216 Kb 16777216Kb / 56Kb/s = 299593s 299593s / 3600s/h = 83.22h so, at the theoretical rate of 56Kb/s, it would take 83.22 hours do download a 2GB file. At a more realistic average download rate of 4Kb/s, it would take 322.88 hours or just under two weeks to download. * 4 Mbps = 0.5 MB/s The transfer rate is 0.5 MB/s 2048 / 0.5 = 4096 seconds Time taken = 1 hour 8 minutes 16 seconds 2. Fill...
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...Time is a Healer In Katherine Mansfield’s short story “The Fly”, she tells of a man and his struggle with the loss of his son. The setting starts out in the boss’s office, where he is talking to a man we know as Mr. Woodifield. Mr. Woodifield is an older gentleman whom since he had a stroke his family keeps him boxed up in his home every day of the week, expect for Tuesdays. Mr. Woodifield and the boss talk about the new decorations of the boss’s office, there is something though that Mr. Woodifield struggles to remember that he wanted to tell the boss. He remembers that is was his daughters had ran across the boss’s son grave while looking at Reggie’s, his son whom he had lost in World War One, grave. He goes on to tell the boss of how well the place is kept, and how his son and Reggie were quite close to one another. After Mr. Woodifield leaves the boss tells his office messenger that “I’ll see nobody for half an hour.” He begins to attempt to grieve over the loss of his son the way he used to be able to. He finds himself unable to weep and he finds himself easily distracted by a simple fly. The fly falls into the ink pot and the boss watches him struggle over and over until he is finally unable to overcome and dies. The moral of this story seems to be that time can heal all grief. Mr. Woodifield is a gentleman whom was a former employee of the boss. He has retired after the stroke he had and comes to visit the boss on Tuesdays, when his wife and girls let him...
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