EFFECTIVELY MANAGE TIME

Sir,

As leaders, we must learn how to manage our time. This demands that we must account for each day. Managing our time is very key to successfully manage other areas of our lives, especially because vision and goals are accomplished in time. It is important for leaders to learn how to effectively manage time. We must begin by discovering where most of our time is spent and then be disciplined enough to cut off all unproductive activities that waste our time.

Systematic time management is one of the powerful ingredients in achieving our dreams and goals. Time management is the ability to put first things first, moment by moment, day by day, week by week, month by month and year by year. Time management requires that we exercise a disciplined lifestyle. We must be determined to wake up on time, do things on time and arrive at places of our appointments on time.

Respecting

We must divorce this African mentality of not respecting time, and organise our lives in such a way that we do not waste time on unimportant things or things which could be done later. If we fail to manage our time, it will inevitably compromise the quality of our leadership. Personal management also demands that we manage our emotions. Do past events sometimes rise up in our minds and wreack havoc on our present situations? Have we been able to forgive those who have hurt us? When we fail to manage our emotional lives, we will be motivated by our own sense of deprivation, and thus lose our objectivity.

Knowledge

One of the areas that we must learn to manage is the area of knowledge. Reading stimulates our intellect. We must always endeavour to grow intellectually so that we are well informed in the sphere of operation or influence.

Lack of knowledge is a recipe for shipwreck on the pathway to destiny. Knowledge enlightens; knowledge helps to diversify our perspective on issues. A narrow minded person is usually a stumbling block to family, community and national progress. It is therefore imperative for us to read and study. Cultivating the art of how to talk to others is key to positively influence people. We must properly manage our conversations.

Every human being is differently unique. Therefore we must acknowledge and learn how to navigate around the differences in others, whether at family, community or national level. Leaders must also faithfully manage positive friendships. Friendship is a vital part to social living, successful living and key to becoming an effective person. Since the friend we embrace have the power to positively or negatively impact our future, we need to choose right friends.

Experiences

Experiences of life and society will usually offer us a variety of friendships, therefore we must be able to differentiate a friend and a flatterer. A friend is one who esteems, respects and intimately associates with you for the purposes of ultimately enhancing your purpose and destiny.

We must always know that our associations will always affect our discretion, our understanding and wisdom levels. In the context of becoming better people, we must be friendly to all people, yet carefully choose those we embrace as bosom friends for the sake of progress and prosperity of our families, communities and nation.                         

C S

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