Does Self-Management Sound Better?

Rory Vaden in his compelling book entitled “Procrastinate on Purpose” happened to be very inspiring for me. As well, when start to write this, I am not so sure of whether you need this or not. What I know is I want to give something I like to others as a mean of sharing. It is not my case to waste your priceless time to read this. The underlying value is I know for so long that I would get what I give.

In Rory Vaden did I feel so surprised that a lot of his thought happens to be outspokenly so similar with my thought. No worry, I just want to flatter over some thoughts. Here is one of them.

Most of us believe that time management is an extensively substantive skill to learn. I was indeed including them. But one thing I always believe which contradicts the notion. Learning to manage myself is worthier than just learning to manage our given times.

Rory affirms that there is no thing like time management. No matter how smart you are. Time will always run twenty four hours in a day, 7 days in a week, and so forth. Arguably, we believe that our time fixed thus we have to manage our times wisely. But few of us realize that all we do is certainly not managing the time. Instead, we manage our activities to suit the remaining time. No wonder if sometimes we prone to fall and blame the unsupportive time for something we cannot. The question then is how can we still call this as time management? And, does self-management sound better?

Self-management sounds more making sense to me -personally. Why does it happen? All we can do is managing our selves not managing the time. Either, we cannot manage other people no matter how close our relationship is. A king may instruct and manage his men to oblige a thing he likes but there will always be a man or two who might if not rejecting directly would partially reject or disobey. For we are not the owners, we cannot expect fully others to always do what we want. So, no one else should change but us.

The idea of self-management gives me more insight of how we deal with unexpected happening. We are all easily falling into mistakes and dreadful feeling. It is our natures to be so emotional in some ways. It easily translates into unwanted feeling, dread or even frustration once we face an unexpected result after all of what we have done. We easily prey either others for our truly mistakes or even time. What a pity.

Understanding this can be a helpful tool to carry out better deed. If one resulted unexpectedly or untimely, an ease should have been there too. Those who enable their self-management would likely be able to see the root of the causes and overcome it at once. On the contrary, people who do time-management will likely juggle over other actions they planned if he survived the situation. Yet in the meantime, it is commonplace that ones without self-control would lose all of his-managed-time planning once encountered a problem or untimely matter. Therefore, understanding self-management is at least worth not only does it sound better but also helpful to overcome the effect of unwanted result.

It is not enough of course to just state the self-management without knowing exactly what self-management meant is. But to keep this writing short. Then, my next writing will give a concise explanation to this helpful term. Thanks for reading.