Rao - Time management for new employees : unlock the secrets of effective time management with strategies and tools designed to boost your productivity

Around 350 BC, Aristotle stated his concepts of Physics, the general principles of change that govern all natural bodies, both living and inanimate. One of his concepts was that heavier objects fell to the earth faster than lighter bodies. In 1589, Galileo dropped two balls of different masses from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to prove that the fall of bodies is independent of their mass. Yet, for over a hundred years more, the University of Pisa still taught their students the Aristotelian version of the principle.

Galileo stated and proved his concept. He did not change beliefs. He did not change behavior patterns.

During the initial years of my corporate career, I took several time management courses and read many more books on the subject. Nothing worked for me until I discovered the true reason why nothing worked for me: merely carrying around an organizer/planner, noting appointments and tasks in it, and hoping for the best does not constitute time management. Unless I changed my behavior, I could only get the same old results. Einstein defined insanity as "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." I realize now that my behavior at that time could have well been classified as insanity by Einstein's definition.

Time management is not a skillit is a pattern of thought and behavior based on beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and commitment. Time management training goes beyond stating facts and proving concepts. It involves changing attitudes and behavior patterns.

What changes behavior? Behavior can only be changed through strong motivation that emerges from dissatisfaction with the current state and a deep desire to reach a better state.

This book is intended to help the reader acquire the appropriate beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and commitments required for time management and to bring about the required change in behavior.

There have been references to proper use of time in all ancient texts and philosophies. Roman Senator and Philosopher Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE) said, "Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen."

Benjamin Franklin is considered the father of time management. He eschewed wasting even a moment. His writings have several references to time management. His posthumous autobiography shows his system for the pursuit of "Order." In a small book of his own making, he assiduously tracked each day's activities.