Planning and Time Management

It is said, time and tide waits for none. The most important aspect in one's life is planning and time management. If we want to know the value of time, we need to approach a great political leader like APJ Abdul Kalamgaru who started his life as a paper boy and reached the height of a universal teacher apart from a great administrator. In this context, we must know the story of a king. Once in a country, the king who was elected should rule only for one year. After completion of his term, he was sent to an island. It was going on every year. At the time of crowning ceremony, every king felt happy, but it was short-lived. Later, a new king was elected. He was not like other kings. As soon as he was crowned, he wanted to see what happened to the old kings. When he reached the island, he found their dead bodies. Came to know they became food to the wild animals. The new king thought he had to do something to overcome this situation. He ordered his men to shoot all wild animals. He further ordered them to construct houses with beautiful gardens. Within the short span of his term, he converted the terrible island into a beautiful place of living. He achieved it only because of his planning. Thus, planning and time management play a very important role in one's life. Postponement always creates disasters, breaks one's health. Nowadays, children wake up late. At 11th hour, start to their schools or colleges. The result is rash or fast driving to reach destination in time and meet with accidents. They must know the value of time instead of making poor excuses like I missed the bus. Why don't you wake up early and get ready 10 minutes before? We see many instances when the doctor says I could not save his life if you had brought the patient 5 minutes late. If a person is in ICU and if a doctor tells we can't give assurance of his life till 48 hours, then we count minutes and even seconds. And feel that time is going very slowly because at that point of time we feel each hour, minute, every second moves like a yoga. Those who are facing such circumstances can tell you the value of time. To those who are involved in good activities, who are as busy as bees, great administrators, business magnates know the value of time. Abdul Kalam Garu, in spite of being busy as an administrator, he liked to spend his free time in teaching the students. Till the end of his life, he knew how to manage time and took his last breath while teaching the students. Thus, he shed the last drop of his blood to the country and the students and became role model to one and all irrespective of age and gender. If we want to be successful in our lives, we have to think what made a paper boy a great administrator and a universal teacher. It is certainly his dreams, his plans and implementation of his plans following time management. Let us try to move on his path. Thanks to Lakshmana Arayangaru for his inspiring speech.