The Timelines That Can Make or Break You

I don’t know who originally said it. Most people have alluded to the English men; time and tides wait for no man. Additionally, the economist says time is money…

We can’t without net negative output, waste time. In the Holy Writ, one of the concepts given a lot of weight is time. You will hear the king of wisdom and sagacity say there’s time for everything (Ecclesiastes 3). I can’t agree more.

I especially like the concept of the time to sow and time to reap. The two follow a natural law that can’t be disobeyed. When it’s time to put seed in the soil, you must not come to the fields to gather into barns. You can’t arrive with that intention. If you do, you will be declared a lunatic.

So, while time is important, it can’t be taken in a blanket manner. Everyone has 24 hours in a day and we must partition it to the day’s demands. For instance, when someone is too busy to say hi, it is just a courteous way of saying, ‘Hey there, you don’t fall on my priority list.’ I can’t create time for you in my tight schedule because it adds little or no value at all.

But all in all, there are three important times of the day that you can’t afford to gamble with. The consequences of gambling with these timelines are too costly.

So what are these three times?

1. 1. The Time you wake up.
2. 2. The ‘Lazy’ Time
3. 3. The Time You Sleep
4. Final Thoughts

Let’s start with waking up time.

1. The Time you wake up.

When do you wake up?

Most people I have interviewed about wake-up time have two different responses. A wake-up time for the routine days and a wake-up time for the weekend. So you will find someone who wakes up at 5 am between Monday and Friday. On the weekend, they wake up when they can’t sleep anymore. This depends on whether they are joining a congregation for worship. It also relates to their preparation for the other side of eternity.

You can’t gamble with this time. For instance, if you need one hour to prepare for work, don’t limit it to half an hour. You won’t achieve the same level of precision and comfort. It will spoil your day and mood, and you will perform poorly at work.

Time of waking up differentiates great achievers from the crowd. There isn’t a specific time that is the best. However, you can create some margins that will make a difference.

Because of Job issues, you don’t have time for personal development and meditation. What if you added an hour earlier for yourself? No memes, no laughing around, but continuing with your reading culture that you buried 20 years ago? And then, on weekends, you don’t sleep to the point of saturation. Instead, you still wake up at the same time and set up the project of redeeming time?

You can be surprised how drastically you can change. People who wake up at a perfect time are more stable. They are also more fruitful in all manners of attainments possible to mankind. Only avoid the temptation to waste your time with memes and jokes at 3 am. If you must wake up early, let it be for serious business and not revelry.

2. The ‘Lazy’ Time

Lazy time in this context refers to the time you have absolutely nothing to do.

For instance, if you have an hour for a lunch break, you might spend only 20 minutes on lunch. Then you have 40 minutes left unallocated. These minutes are at your disposal. Whatever you do with this time is very important.

For the outstanding majority, this time is used for social media and rest. A lot of entanglements are fostered in such a time. But we need to realize that there’s a possibility of doing better with this time. Don’t dance to the tune from the Devil’s Workshop!

Make yourself more useful by finishing your personal development pending assignments. You will be surprised how powerful you become. Redeem the lazy moments and refuse to see them as lazy moments.

3. The Time You Sleep

And now it’s time to sleep once again.

You’ve done a great job for the day and you have some satisfaction. You woke up an hour earlier. You made the best out of the lazy moments you had during the day. You’re proud of yourself.

But do you know you can spoil this pattern by the time you sleep? For many people sleep has remained the forgotten Doctor.

There is no way you are going to wake up an hour earlier if you sleep two hours later. It beats logic and will lead to a nervous breakdown and the worst form of isms; somnambulism!

A perfect pattern must be set here too. Maintain a certain time. If you have to disobey, then let it be that you get to bed a minute earlier but not later. Guard jealously your bedtime.
Don’t waste your time talking to strangers till midnight then you still want to wake up early. You will die young, and no one will stop anything for you. We will just announce a job vacancy and find the best from the frictionally unemployed group.

Final Thoughts

Within the 24 hours, we have in a day, there are some timelines we need to raise our guard upon. These are the timelines that can make or break us. This includes the time we wake up, the time we sleep, and the unallocated time.

If you can sleep at the right time, you will wake up at the right time. And if you clear the lazy moments and find something worth doing, you’ve just escaped a lot of problems.

Learn more about the value of time in these related posts:

• Time
• Is Time Wasting a Sin?
• Time Well Spent