Time Management- A Novel Blockbuster Approach

Chetanya Pandey
3 min readJun 28, 2021

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Welcome to the Kingdom of Lord Time.

Once upon a timeless milliard, there lived a centrilliard.

With all these denizens, our Lord wanted a few less. .

He ordered our minister, Management to throw off a man away from the kingdom, so he would lend in a HUGE pile of ashes. And, believe me, his huge means huge. ALWAYS

Management said- Done.

(As we had no’thing’ called Time, there was no past, no present and no future.)

But the work was not done as the denizens were too idle to do anything at all. The lazy man can’t wake up at nine, you better know, and throwing off one man is ridiculously easy!

So, Management thought he could do it later. No worries! Our king was angry ’cause his order wasn’t obeyed at once, but being a man of mind, he thoughtfully devised a way to make Management work out right away.

But the plan failed! Probably because the work was TOO much, and Management shivered at the very thought of it! And so our king thoughtfully devised another plan.

And lo and behold! The plan worked! This strategy was thus named- Time Framing in honour of the King, Time, and the span in which he ate his breakfast was named- minute. The span in which 60 people were thrown out was named an hour, and so on…

Now, let’s shoot down your question.

Firstly, why would you be unable to manage your time?

There are two reasons for this- either you have too less work or you have too much of an onus, so you can manage your time well if you have just the right time for the right work, or inversely, may I say, the right work for the right time?

Here, we derive our strategy. We have two problems and one variable, viz, work.

As we can’t change the constant, time, let’s change the variable.

When you have less work and more time- This makes you lazy and you start procrastinating since you make your ‘self’ believe that you have got enough time for all the chores. The strategy is that you should increase you work load in this case. I know it’s dreadful but it’s important. You need to be practical. You need to understand that reading strategies won’t do a thing. You just gotta go the right way, the practical way.

The extra onus will drive you crazily into the realm of punctuality, and you’ll no longer feel like you have enough time. Besides, you may earn an extra buck for the extra work.

When you have more work and less time- This state frightens you and you choose to escape it altogether by not doing anything at all. My recommendation is that categorise work into urgent, important etc. by gracefully decomposing/breaking it down.

Now, let’s say, you have 5 assignments, and 2 of them are urgent, then keep rest of the assignments and the material (notes etc.) related to them in another room, let’s call it Room 2.

Now sit in Room 1. Seeing the reduced material and books in the shelf will decrease your mental pressure, and you won’t feel tensed anymore.

Hope your journey to the Kingdom of Lord Time was a success!

We hope your tour into the Kingdom of Time was a success!

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Chetanya Pandey

“At an age when young girls play with dolls, Chetanya Pandey has made a mark by way of her English speeches and Extempore.” (Source: TIMES OF INDIA Mixedbag)