'LOST & FOUND' is Not Applicable with 'LOST TIME'

 'LOST & FOUND' is Not Applicable with 'LOST TIME'

Lost and Found Counters are everywhere.  Good Samaritans are still aplenty.  You would hear a foreign tourist losing his passport and belongings only to recover it when the taxi driver traces him back.  And social media has become a very helpful platform for all lost items EXCEPT 'time'.  To quote Benjamin Franklin, one of America's Founding Fathers, 'LOST TIME IS NEVER FOUND AGAIN'.  Supposedly, that is the end of the story but not for the stubborn folks.  They will retort that there is a 'tomorrow'.  That what was not done today can be done tomorrow. !@#$%?  Sadly, that is a fallacy we don't want to waste our time.  It's just NOT worth it.  Let's just call spade a spade.  LOST TIME is LOST TIME, end of story.

Oh, we all have watched before that top box-office hit series 'The Twilight Saga' bannered by Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.  Most of the time, its cinematography offered us the gloom of twilight.   And this is where the analogy comes in.  When you got LOST TIME. think about the gloom brought about by your LOST TIME because that equates to LOST OPPORTUNITY. Even for someone defensive who'll argue that he's got nothing to do today, that's just CRAP !

When this pandemic broke out a year ago, we all sighed in unison, thinking [falsely and wrongly] that working from home is a welcome relief, thinking that time is now within our palm, so easy and quick to randomly tweak and balance it out.  A year after, we're all scratching our heads because task overflows have become the norm of the day, missed tasks have become the norm than the exception, reset and rescheduled deadlines kept on being pushed till it reaches the edges of the cliff and ravines.  And before you know it, we're screaming that working from home is 'stressful'.  Whew !  Are we now about to blame this pandemic ?  And this 'blame game' points fingers to Covid-19 Wave 1, Wave 2.  God knows, maybe until Wave 99 ?  Whew !  Phew !

Do you need a shot in the arm ?  Take it from Courtney Connley in her piece @ https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/31/4-ways-to-be-productive-and-avoid-distractions-when-working-from-home.html where she succinctly lays down the four antidotes to 'uptick your productivity and avoid the distractions when working from home.

Let's get down to brass knuckles.  Whatever is your calling, regardless if you're a student, a working professional or a homemaker, it's all productivity that matters.  And if our production window is eight hours, be focused on that 8-hour window [and DON'T breach it, unless a major snafu warrants it].  And if you were productive yesterday, challenge yourself:  DID I EFFICIENTLY UTILIZE MY TIME ?  CAN I FURTHER OPTIMIZE IT FOR EFFICIENCY ?

The late Former U.S. President Dwigh Eisenhower was Gallup's most admired man of the year for 12 times.  Addressing the Century Association in 1961: 'Who can define.. the difference between the long and short term.. we are almost compelled to give our attention to the URGENT PRESENT rather than the IMPORTANT FUTURE'.  By the time he ended his term, his accomplishments were just one too many to create so much impact not just to the U.S. but to the world, where the U.S. was the revered and undisputed global leader.  

Three decades after Eisenhower's term, Stephen Covey, the noted American educator  whose most popular book is 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People', he crafted Eisenhower's insights into a simple tool to prioritize tasks now known as the Eisenhower Matrix.  This framework guides us to 'eliminate time-wasters' in our life and create that more mental space to further progress in our goals. Vanessa Loder shares her tips how can we combat procrastination  @https://www.forbes.com/sites/vanessaloder/2016/04/15/10-scientifically-proven-tips-for-beating-procrastination/?sh=30ae25a2296a.  From Princeton University's McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning @ https://mcgraw.princeton.edu/understanding-and-overcoming-procrastination, it dissects why many of us procrastinate and how can we overcome that.  Enough of all these dissecting pieces, let us not gloat and be self-approving if we have not hit rock bottom yet.  Who knows we're nearing rock bottom ?  In Latin, quando motus.  WHEN DO YOU MOVE ? 📌📌📌