Time Management_M_nabi's NOTE

Reframe Your Perspective of Time The Awesome Advice I Got From The Book “Someday Is Today”

5. Recently, I’ve been reading the book “Someday Is Today,” but I’m still not finished yet. But I found a really fantastic, practical piece of advice that changed my perspective of time. And now, I’m sharing this with you. 6. The author of this book “Mr. Matthew Dicks” is sitting in a McDonald’s restaurant, meeting with a woman. They are talking about literary agents, editors, book contracts, international sales, etc. And at one point, during the conversation, the author asks the woman, “How’s the book coming?” And the woman says she hasn’t really started it yet. Then, she asks him how his writing process is. 7. He says, “You were seven minutes late today.” When the woman starts to apologize about it, he says, “No, no ,no, that’s not my point. The point is that during those seven minutes, I wrote nine good sentences.” 8. He continues, “The average novel is somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 sentences. And every sentence that I write gets me closer to my goal. And today, I got nine sentences closer.”

The Power of Minutes 1. We usually think that in order to complete creative, massive life projects and tasks, we need to put into “hours and hours” of focused, dedicated work. Whether it be writing a book or painting a mural, we think, “Oh, I need to add an hour of work to make some progress.” I, myself, include thinking in that way. When I know I have something to do, I mostly start at 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, etc. I don’t feel like starting at 1:17 or 2:49: those numbers look unattractive to me. So I wait until the clock hits 1:30 or 3:00. And because of this mindset, some minutes have been dumped to waste for no reason, the minutes that I could have spent doing something useful. Plus, I didn’t even consider it a bad thing. 2. But now I realize that if I spend one minute doing something productive, like reading, for example, then I’m one minute closer to obtaining the valuable knowledge of that book. Likewise, if I choose to use that same one minute to play a game, then I’m just wasting it; there’s no real benefit I can think of that comes out of playing games.

4. Anyway, the point here is that small minutes can add up to certain results, and they can even dictate who we will become in the future. If I spend 3 hours every single day watching TV, by the end of a month, I’d be spending 90 hours in front of that screen. That’s almost four full days! And when the year ends, 1,095 hours are spent on TV. That’s 45 days! Alternatively, if I spend only 15–30 mins reading valuable books every day, I’ll be finished reading 15 books in a span of 1 year!

3. That’s the power of minute. You don’t have to commit for hours, just spending minutes daily on valuable activities can traject our lives. At the same time, minutes spent on doing frivolous things can derail you in the course of time. Minutes matter. 5 minutes multiply by 10 is 50 minutes. (that’s simple math) So, let us use those seemingly tiny little minutes to our advantage. Let’s not neglect those small fractions of time. Time is valuable, right?