We can have a great time only when we valued our time and understand what time anagement is all about. This article will give you a new turn to be a perfect time manager.

Now go on and enjoy yourself, dance to your hearts content and win the Prince heart. But remember, you have to be back before the clock strikes twelve at midnight.

We all are familiar with the words of the Fairy God Mother in the evergreen fairy tale Cinderella. It is these words that probably made us aware for the first time in our lives of the value of time. We all sympathized with Cinderella when all her splendid gown and other finery turned to rags at the stroke of midnight. Our first acquaintance with the villainous time.

But then, is time such a villain, who should always be painted in black? We have heard the proverb that says there are no wounds that time cannot heal.

Here of course we get the image of a wizened old woman who comes hobbling up to us with a pitcher full of balm and gentle fingers that soothe away all our pains and sorrows.

But thats enough. This book was not written to eulogize time. There is no need of the romance of Cinderella or the soothing finger of an old lady when we are talking about time. And do you know why? It is because we do not have the time for it.

We are going to try and understand time in its many faces. No, I was not referring to the faces of watches or clocks. I was referring to the many meanings that time has. Oh yes it does. You thought that time meant the same to everyone. Well think again; or maybe you could try to explain the logic behind the following cases.

Picture a farmer who plants a sapling of a tree that would probably take ten to twelve years to reach the stage when it would start to bear fruit, by then the farmer would in likelihood be under the soil himself.

Picture a jailbird in bird counting on the bars of his cell waiting for the seconds, minutes, and hours, days, weeks, months and years to go by before he can be free again.

Now picture a young couple madly in love with each other cherishing the few minutes they get to spend with each other every day, cursing time because it flies so fast when they are together and never the other way round.

So what does time mean to you?

When was the last time that you realized the value of time?

The answer is probably the last time you watched one of those Hollywood thrillers in which the hero is driving a car in which a time-bomb has been planted and the hero is unaware of this. But we being the getting-to-see-it-all audience watch with bated breath as the tiny needle of the timer ticks towards the point at which the explosion is sure to occur.

But just before that, the hero hits the brakes screeches to a halt to avoid hitting that old lady crossing the road. And when he jumps out to help her cross the road the needle reaches the point and the bomb is exploded. And our hero is safe. It is funny how the hero always escapes without a scratch in these movies. But I expect that is why they call them heroes.

Now we are really transgressing are not we? So back to our subject that is Time Management.

Do you know what is interesting about the concept of Time? It is absolutely uncontrollable.