TIME
MANAGEMENT
Time Management Matrix
IMPORTANT
Quadrant I Quadrant II
NOT
URGENT
URGENT
Quadrant III Quadrant IV
NOT IMPORTANT
Quad I – Urgent & Important
Eg. Crisis
Deadline driven projects
Nature Call
• requires immediate attention
• press on us, insists an action
Quad III – Urgent but Not Important
Eg. casual drop in visitors
interruptions
some incoming mails
• QUADRANT OF DECEPTION
→ right in front of us
→ often they are pleasant, easy,
fun to do.
Quad IV – Not Urgent &
Not Important
Eg. Watching mindless TV shows
Gossiping
• QUADRANT OF WASTE
→ we often escape to Quadrant
IV for survival
Quad II – Important &
Not Urgent
Eg. Spiritual renewal
Chanting Hare Krishna mantra
• QUADRANT OF QUALITY
→ Involves long term vision
→ It empowers us
Generally, when we ask the
question…
Are you chanting
these days?
We get answers like…
No Prabhu, VERY BUSY THESE
DAYS !!
OR
NO TIME !!!
A million dollar question!
How do we find time for
enhancing our ‘SQ’ or
spiritual intelligence?
When …
• 24 hours are not enough, with so
much to do.
• We are all racing with time.
• We are living in a competitive
world.
Today’s world is moving at a
FAST pace, with
SURVIVAL
of the
FITTEST!!
Solution lies in effective…
TIME
MANAGEMENT
Effective TIME MANAGEMENT
lies in spending considerable
time in QUAD II activities
which are …
IMPORTANT
but
NOT URGENT
SPIRITUAL ACTIVITIES
are
IMPORTANT
but
NOT URGENT
A wonderful demonstration
conducted to explain …
TIME
MANAGEMENT
What can we
conclude from this
demonstration
?
Lets fill in the
same ingredients in
reverse order…
Full
water
We are not able to
fit in the
BIG ROCKS !!!
EFFECTIVE TIME
MANAGEMENT
lies in
IDENTIFYING THE BIG ROCKS
WHAT ARE THE
BIG ROCKS
?
We live in a
relative world
In my opinion what is
• Important – is unimportant
for others
• Beautiful – is ugly for others
• Warm – is cold for others
Our opinions are product of our
• paradigms and perceptions
• conditioning
• environment
• upbringing
• society
• persons whom we associate
with, etc.
Scriptures & great Acharyas
inform us of activities which
are of …
ABSOULTE
IMPORTANCE
Vedas point out human life is
meant for
athäto brahma jijïäsä
SELF REALIZATION
or
GOD REALIZATION
Krishna in Bhagavad Gita points out
bahünäà janmanäm
ante jïänavän mäà
prapadyate
After many births and deaths,
he who is actually in knowledge
surrenders unto Me.
AN
INTERESTING
FINDING …
Çrépäda
Çaìkaräcärya
Çrépäda
Çaìkaräcärya
Çrépäda
Çaìkaräcärya
Prahalad Maharaj in Srimad Bhagvatam
instructs
kaumära äcaret präjïo
dharmän bhägavatän iha
durlabhaà mänuñaà janma
tad apy adhruvam arthadam
One who is sufficiently
intelligent should use the human
form of body from the very
beginning of his life to practice
the activities of devotional
service.
The human body is most rarely
achieved and although
temporary like other bodies, it is
meaningful because in human
life one can perform devotional
service.
Even a slight amount of
sincere devotional service
can give one complete
perfection.
Srimad Bhagvatam instructs
labdhvä su-durlabham idaà bahu-sambhavänte
mänuñyam artha-dam anityam apéha dhéraù
türëaà yateta na pated anu-måtyu yävan
niùçreyasäya viñayaù khalu sarvataù syät
After many, many births and
deaths one achieves the rare
human form of life, which,
affords one the opportunity to
attain the highest perfection.
Thus a sober human being
should quickly endeavor for the
ultimate perfection of life... as
long as his body, which is
always subject to death, has not
fallen down and died.
After all, sense gratification is
available even in the most
abominable species of life,
whereas Krishna consciousness
is possible only for a human
being.
MOST COMMONLY
EXPRESSED FEAR
But what if I am neither
here nor there !!!
In Bhagavad-gita Arjuna asks Krishna
“O Kåñëa, what is the destination of
the unsuccessful transcendentalist, who
in the beginning takes to the process of
self-realization with faith but who later
desists due to worldly-mindedness and
thus does not attain perfection in
mysticism?”
“O mighty-armed Kåñëa, does not such
a man, who is bewildered from the
path of transcendence, fall away from
both spiritual and material success and
perish like a riven cloud, with no
position in any sphere?”
Krishna replies …
“Son of Påthä, a
transcendentalist
engaged in
auspicious activities
does not meet with
destruction either in
this world or in the
spiritual world.”
“The unsuccessful yogé, after many,
many years of enjoyment on the
planets of the pious living entities, is
born into a family of righteous people,
or into a family of rich aristocracy.”
“Or he takes his birth in a family of
transcendentalists who are surely great
in wisdom. Certainly, such a birth is
rare in this world.”
“On taking such a birth, he revives the
divine consciousness of his previous
life, and he again tries to make further
progress in order to achieve complete
success, O son of Kuru.”
“And when the yogé engages himself
with sincere endeavor in making
further progress, being washed of all
contaminations, then ultimately,
achieving perfection after many, many
births of practice, he attains the
supreme goal.”
We conclude…
If we have to lead meaningful lives, we
have learn to effectively manage our
TIME
by spending considerable time in
SPIRITUAL ACTIVITIES
The end
