Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Time Management - Week 2
Sai Ram all,
Last week we covered the importance of having goals, and the reason for doing the time management exercise.
Students, please complete the exercise from last week to track your time.
Why set goals?
Goals help keep you in focus towards achieving a target, and help you motivated.
Here's a story from the Indian Epic Mahabharat where once Dronacharya takes the Pandavas to the forest to test their skills in archery. He hung a model of a bird on a branch and asked each of them, one by one, to take aim at the bird and tell him what they saw. He first called Yudhishtir, the eldest of the 5 brothers. Yudhishtir saw the entire cosmos of which the earth was a part, then a tree which was a part of the earth, and finally a bird hung on the branch of the tree. Dronacharya asked him to sit down. One of the brothers, Arjun, could see only the eye of the bird, and nothing but the eye. He shot the bird right in the eye cause he could see nothing but his target.
Last week we covered the importance of having goals, and the reason for doing the time management exercise.
Students, please complete the exercise from last week to track your time.
Why set goals?
Goals help keep you in focus towards achieving a target, and help you motivated.
Here's a story from the Indian Epic Mahabharat where once Dronacharya takes the Pandavas to the forest to test their skills in archery. He hung a model of a bird on a branch and asked each of them, one by one, to take aim at the bird and tell him what they saw. He first called Yudhishtir, the eldest of the 5 brothers. Yudhishtir saw the entire cosmos of which the earth was a part, then a tree which was a part of the earth, and finally a bird hung on the branch of the tree. Dronacharya asked him to sit down. One of the brothers, Arjun, could see only the eye of the bird, and nothing but the eye. He shot the bird right in the eye cause he could see nothing but his target.
While goal setting seems like a huge task, it's the only way you'll get what you want in life. The challenge is in how to identify and set goals, and how to achieve them. But without knowing where you want to go, you'll never get there!
Focus is what allows us to concentrate rays of diffused sunlight into a force powerful enough to start a fire.
Next Week
Next week, we will 1) work on goal setting, and we will 2) place your time usage side by side with your goals.
Next week, we will 1) work on goal setting, and we will 2) place your time usage side by side with your goals.
Regards,
Sandeep
# posted by Babu : 5:46 PM
