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“Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert these are perceptual illusions. Sensation is an abstraction, not a replication of the real world.” Vernon Mountcastle

Quote from YouTube Video: Kavli Prize Laureate Lecture – The Restless Brain

The Life Goals Planner

Part 5 – Time Planning

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.”
Harvey Mackay

  • To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
  • To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
  • To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
  • To realize the value of ONE DAY, ask a daily wage laborer with kids to feed.
  • To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
  • To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
  • To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
  • To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics

Treasure every moment that you have!

And remember that time waits for no one.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow a mystery. Today is a gift.

That’s why it’s called the present!

 The most valuable things human beings have is time. You can always get more money but once you spend some time it’s gone for ever. If you don’t already know the price you are paying for the mismanagement of your time, then you’re in for a major shock. Properly set goals are the foundation for effectiveness, and time management is the foundation of productivity. First we have to realize how valuable time is and then we need to understand the principles if we are going to manage it effectively. Time management is really personal management. It has been said that the quality of your life will be determined by the quality of your time management. Time management is really the external demonstration of self-discipline in your life and being effective here will bring you huge rewards in self esteem, confidence and respect because you have the ability to manage your most valuable resource.

Time management is both a skill and a habit. Like typing or playing the piano, the skill can be developed and refined to an art and over time with repetition of applying the principles you will be a productive person. Day Timer, a company that understands time management built a huge company helping people use their time more effectively. In 1947 Morris Perkin, a local attorney, realized that he needed more information about his work day than could be provided by a simple appointment calendar. So he designed his own system, which he called Lawyer’s Day. This time record book of calendar pages combined all the functions of: an appointment book, a tickler reminder system, a detailed time record, a diary and record of all work done and activities, and a work planner and organizer.

It was Perkin’s personal solution to time management. By 1952 Perkin needed a commercial establishment to handle the printing of Lawyer’s Day for him, so he approached the Dorney’s — and changed all of their lives. As Bob Dorney recalls it: “For a while we just printed it for him, initially he only had about 700 customers. But he really struck a nerve, because Lawyer’s Day went over very well. As the subscription list grew, we began shipping it for him, then marketing it, too. Eventually, it got to be a little more than he wanted to handle, and after dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s, we merged.” They sealed the agreement with a handshake, and the partnership quickly became a successful venture. The diaries were sold using the theme: “Lawyers who keep time earn 42% more than non-time keepers.” Results of a Bar Association study revealed that lawyers who used the system earned 50% more than those who didn’t.

Lawyer’s Day was a revolutionary concept that was soon being used by 20% of the lawyers in the country. Commerce and trade were booming in the early ’50s, and the economy began to flourish. Calendars in use at that time were primitive, consisting of dates on simple pages or blocks of dates on a page, with little room for appointments, and no space to record details of meetings or transactions. Because of the vitality of the economy and the increase in “action,” business people had outgrown these basic calendars, they needed more room to keep track of more obligations, appointments, expenses, and details. After conducting extensive market research, the Dorney brothers discovered that the Lawyer’s Day system would also be effective for professionals other than lawyers.

Science-fact-theory-hypothesis

Definitions key to discussions:

  • Fact: A fact is a statement that is true and can be proved with evidence.
  • Hypothesis: A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon that can be tested by the scientific method. A hypothesis has not been tested.
  • Theory: Scientific theories are distinguished from hypotheses, which are empirically testable conjectures, and from scientific laws, which are descriptive accounts of how nature behaves under certain conditions. Theories have been rigorously tested and widely accepted by the scientific community who agree the theory best explains the observations or phenomenon we experience.
  • Scientific Method: The scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge.
  • Empirical Evidence: Empirical evidence is the knowledge received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and experimentation.
  • Reality: Reality is the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.
  • Delusion: A delusion is a belief that is held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.
  • Insanity: Insanity, craziness, or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.