It is good, for a beginning, to make a study of your time consumption pattern in a typical day. For example how much time do you spend in sleeping, eating, recreation, TV, Study, reading, chatting, dressing and make-up , phoning, talking on cell, browsing internet, or plain day dreaming?. So if you tabulated the above to find out on an average how many hours you spend for the activities which you do regularly and find out the activity which consume most of the time.

Often, we are caught in the vice grip of crises and emergencies because we neglect important things. So let we look at the following time consumption Model

So now our activity bases on the spend time has been categories are represented by four quadrants.

1. Important and Urgent: e.g. Studying for imminent exams, paying our phone bill, taking our meals, arriving in time for examination, setting out to school in time, seeing the day’s news, seeing a doctor when sick
2. Important not Urgent. E.g. studying regularly, eating regularly healthy food, attending classes, keeping in touch with friends, replying important letters, doing revision tests.
3. Urgent not Important: e.g. attending to some phone calls, seeing a popular movie, attending parties, taking account of attractive discount sales.
4. Not Important and not urgent: e.g. seeing movies, chatting with friends, watching cricket matches, tours and sight- seeing , watching cartoons.

So poor time managers spend most of there time in 4^th quadrant and they also spend time on quadrant three with urgent but not important things. As a result quadrant 1 which deals with important and urgent things goes on expanding and out of control. They are always struggling to meet deadlines and out of breath in the process. They pay very little attention to quadrant 2 which consists of important but not urgent things. This area is neglected and as a result soon these things pile up in quadrant1 which is made up of urgent and important things.

The secret of successful time management is to give more weightage to quadrant 2 which deals with important but not urgent things and pay maximum attention to this area. When this are is well taken care of quadrant 1 of urgent and important things will shrink in size. There will be less and less need for rushing to meet deadlines and more creativity can be unleashed with a mind free form stress.

Naturally least priority should be given to quadrant4 which consists of things neither important nor urgent. Some examples are spending hours on the cell phone or internet chatting, TV watching, shopping sprees, fiction books, etc.

Time is great gift of God and we do not know how long or short life may be. This is in the hands of the maker. A visit to any grave yard will show you that people can die at any age—in infancy, or teenage or adulthood or ripe old age. Death does not count your birthdays to whisk you off from this earth.