Abstract
Time is the most precious thing in our life. Our success depends on how we are planning and utilising the available time. A brilliant, normal and dull like this all people have the same 24 hours in a day. A normal become brilliant through some effective time management techniques. By managing our time more wisely, we can minimise stress and improve our quality of life. Time Management is concerned with the plan of our day to day activities. The present study is on secondary data basis and own experience, so it is also regarded as empirical study. The main objective of the study is study and suggestion of time management techniques for utilising available 24 hours in a day and night. Our sleeping hours plays an important role in time management, so, it is suggested to FIX to SIX hours of sleeping for normal human being. Life is full of hurdles and problems, they lead to stress, but stress is danger. So, time and anger management techniques are provided for stress management. Some of the time management techniques include preparing a schedule before a day, priority fixing in that day plan, learning art of saying “NO”, decentralising work, evaluating the time spent, attend the seminars on time and stress management, getting counselling for managing stress, medications to relax stress, daily walk, yoga and meditation. The main findings of the study include people are struggling in day to day activities since they are poor in time scheduling, we are also poor in memory as we have no day slip in our packet, Time wasters such as TV, Mobile and some people are playing a vital role time wasting, major cause for the stress is long working hours, restless work, and adverse environment at the job, It is also found that one of the main reasons for the stress is some employees carry office problems to home and they also carry family problems to the office. The suggestions include allotting works to be done on the day in sequential order, please learn the art of saying “NO”, prepare day, week, month, year and life plan, avoid family problems at office, anger is a danger, so, control it by adopting techniques. It is concluded that time is prime, anger is danger and these have impact on stress. Heavy stress causes heart attack, alcohol, divorce and death. To the major extent stress can be managed by time and anger management techniques.
Key Words: Time Wasters, Day Plan, Yoga and Meditation, Time, Stress Etc.