Time management

Honestly time is a big deal. Time seems simple but it is not. Saint Augustine used to say " What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."
How can we manage something that each of us don't really understand, something for which we are a part of. All of us appeared in time and will disappear one day in the time . As a matter a fact we don't understand the time that is a kind of machine that is continuously changing the future in past and between past and future there is something that we can't seize that is called the Present.

The Present doesn't really exist because each infinitesimal instant belongs either to the future or to the past and the paradox is that we do not live in another place that the present !

Anyway, Present Management should be a more appropriate definition than Time Management because again time is not under our control, we can't have a journey into the future and as well we are not able to move ourselves into the past in order to see our ancestors. Back to the future doesn't work... On the contrary we handle space and we are good at controlling space : we went to the moon and we are building magnificent houses and swimming poll in Aix-en-Provence (South of France)

But if you want to go further about time and if you appreciate deep thoughts on such topics like the big bang and the universe, if you are not only interested in God but also in love and art as well, if you want to know more about what does it takes to be a guy living a normal daily life and how this normality itself is incredible, i would recommend you to read some wonderful pages (very well written) from Jean d'Ormesson's books : "La Douane de mer","Presque rien sur presque tout", "C'était bien", and one of his main masterpiece : "La Gloire de l'Empire" which is available in English (Glory of the empire)


The video below is a great presentation and a first class lecture about time management given by Randy Pausch on November,27 2007 at the university of Virginia . When he gave his lecture Randy was aware he had only 3 or 6 month left to live because his previously known pancreatic cancer was terminal. And Randy told to his audience " i am gonna talk about topics on time management, the circumstances are, as you probably know, a little bit unusual, i think i am at this point an authority to talk what to do with limited time" !!!

So learn a lot about time with Randy and find :

• Why time is the most important commodity ?
• If you are not going to have fun, why do it ?
• Why managing your time well makes you successful ?
• Why are you doing it ? What happens if you choose not to dot it ?
• Doing things right vs. doing the right things
• Why you have to do the ugliest thing first ?
• Why your inbox is not your to do list ?
• Why doing the things at the last minute is expensive ?