For Sleep

Time management is an essential skill to life , as people grow older they learn to respect and appreciate that skill – hopefully by wisdom instead of by a tough life lesson- , because time management is the skill that allows all other skills to emerge ,shine and reach their full potential after getting cleaning the dust accumulated by time misuse. In fact , time management helps people decide what their priorities are and helps them focus on their tasks so that they can finish them in time , stress free and while managing to get your regular ( if you are lucky enough to have one , that is )dose of sleep.

How do you manage your time? Simple , you create a list of the things you need to do, sort them by priority  ( try to make the list look small , because if you are as lazy as I am it will be hard to motivate yourself to finish them if the list is 10 km long , you will be slightly demotivated and won’t finish anything at all, trust me that’s coming from experience. Remember to estimate the time of each action so you don’t overload you day and give yourself breaks so you can renew your energy and go back to work with a fresh brain.

Ok so now you’ve got your list ready? Great ! now next step , execute it . No don’t give that look , come on honestly I am sure you saw that coming? No? well sorry to break this down to you but you have to work on accomplishing them now , don’t worry they’ll be done on time if you don’t get very distracted  , take my word for it I am writing this article at 12:48 am (time management , how ironic ) , that’s about 7 hours before it’s due ( well actually 48 minutes late but  that’s nothing, you can always forge the date if you want but I don’t recommend that , it’s useless ).

Now the most important step , is self discipline, you can make plans to manage you time in the most brilliant of ways , but all of that will be worthless if you cannot bring yourself to follow  (follow  is not the freest of words , how about embrace? )  that plane , resist all temptations to create a new plan or derive the original one if you know that you are only doing this to procrastinate and waste time ( and you can’t trick your conscience so don’t pretend you taught it for your own good , that’s pointless and lying to yourself only makes things worst and pushes to feel guilty, makes you despise yourself and destroys your ego, so an off topic advice, always be truthful to yourself , don’t try to give excuses for your mistakes , confront yourself with the truth, accept  it and learn to love it and be happy with it, then try to be better, or else you will be miserable ). Tame your cravings so you only focus on what you have to do ( Red Alert 2, minesweeper , facebook and 1984 can all wait , math can’t ), and finish it.

I am going to have to conclude this now as it is already 1:11 am ( yes I did procrastinate a little while writing this , but I am an IB student it helps me concentrate ) , however sleep has became one of my top priorities these days, so I’ll fight of the will to write a verbose blog post ( because I m very talkative) well it’ actually 615 words so I guess I am fine , and fight off the alluring sight of the internet right after I finish this blog post ( no facebook, no twitter no http://ahmed-khaled-tawfik.blogspot.com/ -visit it there is a reason I copy pasted the link - , straight to sleep , and that my friends is self control.

Goodnight, and please forgive the sheer stupidity  of this article and the prodigious amount of mistakes I am sure I committed, I need sleep .