Skill Lever 5: The daylight rule to be more – beginning of an insight.

Anyone can give time to someone but, time can never give time to anyone. Time can be used, you could only use them at an alarming rate. Another aspect I would like to clarify is that you cannot save time. You could also not preserve it and use it later.

Here comes a pertinent question as to how one can be efficient with time management?. One has to be very clearly differentiating between Skill Development and Time Management. Skill development is often heard to be the future normal.

Skill management is an act and it greatly influences professionals these days. Let’s now understand the difference between skill development and skill management.

Skill development is the process of acquiring new skills while Time management is the process of micro management of skill that we already possess

The connection between skill development and time management could not be overemphasized. But before leveraging these concepts let’s understand what is       ‘A daylight saving’ . Understanding daylight saving is crucial to understand the connection between skill development and time management. 

What is Daylight saving time (DST) in general

In Geographical terms daylight differentiation can be meant as follows, earlier sunrise means earlier sun set. Later sunrise means later evening. Here you might think how can the Sun be late?, or sooner? This is where we need to understand  IST- International Standard Time. In summer days are more and nights are shorter. In winter days are less and nights are more. Due to this natural phenomenon countries like India lose more days during winter.

Do you know that by being in India you actually lose time. In other words, if the clock is set in advance by one hour so we could have more daylight. This is especially true in most eastern parts of the country. There are many benefits to daylight savings in India. But this is not one of the detailed areas which we are going to study in this article. We will learn how we can be effective during the daylight so that we acquire more skills and manage our time better. 

Wikipedia says the following on some of the advantages of DST ‘Proponents of DST generally argue that it saves energy, promotes outdoor leisure activity in the evening (in summer), and is therefore good for physical and psychological health, reduces traffic accidents, reduces crime or is good for business’.

Saving daylight even if your not following DST

Time management is an important component of skill development. Managing time is a skill in itself. Starting your day early. Then you can definitely end  up saving more time and that eventually leads you to be more skillful and even more productive.

It doesn’t matter when you go to sleep last night. Always have a habit of waking up at the same time. If you wake up early in the morning and you start to do your routine then the path to your career development is being laid accordingly.  You might think that losing a few minutes by sleeping more is not visibly known but you put an invaluable pressure intangibly to your schedule. Saving the daylight means here, I am asking you to spend more time during the daylight – Day time.

We are told by many not to procrastinate our tasks. But have we always tried to do our tasks without procrastinating. If the answer is yes, you are the few among those who are really saving the daylight and you could really be one of the successful persons in life. 

Advantage of using daylight rule

The list of advantage when you save your daylight in given below:

• Allot proper time for your daily routine. They are important to start your day with renewed energy.
• Can be more organised, you could avoid taking up tasks hurriedly
• Prioritise your tasks of the day and set aside requisite time.
• Accomplish all of your tasks.
• Positive approach to people management.
• Your tasks would be executed in a timely manner.
• You could always explore – How can one be more skillful with the available time.

What could we lose if we do not follow the daylight rule?

Mismanagement of our skill is the key bad-results if we are not following the daylight rule.The following demerits may occur.

• Low self esteem and even lower level of self respect.
• You could become pessimistic.
• Habit of procrastination will happen.
• Delaying in executing your tasks leads to absolute delay in career prosperity.
• It will build up stress and eventually lead to to dissatisfied works

Introspection

Being on time for any work is the greatest virtue as far as being more skillful is concerned. If all of your plans or tasks should be completed in the same way of their original conceptualisation, then following this daylight rule pays off well. In fact, the way in which your action ends quantitatively relies on the way in which you begin it. If beginning a task is of paramount importance then the same should be done in a timely manner.

 Tips to follow daylight rule

• Rise early, rest early.
• Plan in advance and finish in advance.
•  Perfect your tasks every time.
• Exceed the expectation of your own.
• Remember your skill management is preceded by efficient time management.
• Skill acquired should be calibrated with available time within which the same can be executed.
• People are third dimension along with skill and time.
• Problems can devastate your ideas and plans but ability to overcome the same is with this  daylight formula.

Therefore, by following the daylight formula/ rule I am simply requesting you to follow the same pattern of executing your daily tasks. Make sure you do most of your important work during the daylight. If you are a person who works in the night shift then you could modify this rule accordingly. 

The author is Kannan Periyanayagam, Founder of IASR, a specialised academy of skill development and research. 

Credits: Wikipedia