The Rule of Thirds to Manage Your Time

In photography, there is such a principle called rule of thirds to position the subject in focus but still with the perspectives of having a good background or foreground. The rule of thirds also has applications in budgetting time It ideally works, depending on one's circumstances, goals and priorities, by simply dividing your time into three parts.

In a year, some parts of the world are blessed with four seasons, at least each season goes for three months. In a week we have 168 hours to spend on the many things that we do. Basically there are only three important things that we have to do, sleep, work and the rest is ours for the taking.

An eight-hour sleep is important to energize our body for the day's work. Anyone working or studying will need those good hours of sleep if they want to do well in their jobs or at school. Those homebuddies also need the same amount of rest. Lack of sleep adds to stress and spells alot of trouble that result to poor quality of work and negative emotions that can affect relationships with others.

The other third part of your weekly time can be spent for your work or studies. Well less working hours can really be more productive for any person. But, since 40 hours are usually required as working hours, then you still have 16 hours left for your travel time to and from work or school. In schools, students are not really required to stay there for 40 hours, so the rest of the time can be spent for extra studies, group studies, personal reading or doing homeworks.

The last third part of your weekly time can be budgetted to anything as you please. If family is high value to you, and your working or studying, then the weekends are supposed to be your family time. If you have other activities or interests, then you may spend those remaining 56 hours for them. Say, you have social engagements, organizations, and other commitments you should be able to crunch all of them in this third part of your weekly time.

The ABC principle of setting priorities is also a time management strategy. Here, you set the things that you need to do as to their value or importance and urgency. A's will be your top priority because they are important and urgent. B's will be the next thing you have to do, because they are important although not so urgent. C's are those fun things that you want to do, no deadlines and some may not really be important.

There are is the rule of thirds applied to managing your time. I hope it helps you and works well for you. Remember time is your friend, it can work best for you and never against you if you can manage it well. There is time for everything, but time runs as it is fluid. You can never turn its hands back. If you can not set your priorities and manage your time, the rule of thirds loses its magic and you'll regret not finding the time to do what ever you had to do.

Everything is in your hands not in the clock's.