Getting Things Done Right Now
As I grow older, I realise that more and more tasks or responsibilities arise. It is nothing major but rather several small tasks. For instance, it can be anything from paying a credit card bill to getting in touch with your guide in an internship. Most of these tasks usually take 10-15 minutes. My earlier habit was to postpone these to some ideal time when I am done with all other work. But usually that ideal time never arrives. Even if it does, the accumulation of several tasks takes the joy away from that free time. Now, I get it done as soon as some reasonable certainty has been established. Booking tickets, washing clothes or sending reminders are common instances.
Take Time To Introspect
It is easy to continue running the race and not pause for a bit. I will not call it a rat race for it is not one. Most people compete because it gives them a reasonable probability to get somewhere significant in life. What is significant for one may be meaningless to the other. But all of us at some point or the other are competing for something better. That in itself is no wrong. But it becomes pointless when you take no time off to think for yourself. If being part of the race is due to a definitive goal in mind, well and good. For instance, when I wrote CAT, I was competing. I needed higher and higher scores to get a better college. That is a fact. But after coming here, I decided to put my time into only those activities that were in line with what I wanted. And the leisure that second year at IIM Calcutta provides was greatly helpful in allowing me the time for introspection.
So what is the conclusion at the end of it all? I myself cannot lay my fingers on it. I leave IIM-C wiser than I was before? Smarter than before? I do not know. But certainly more confident and happier than before.
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