“You may think options there are a lot!
Lemme tell you they are quite few!
So remember to spend it on the most important!
Course the most important for you is you!”
Meurisse, Thibaut in his books always tells that time is the most precious commodity!
He then tells that if you are feeling guilty of saying NO then don’t!
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There was a time when I was completing one Thesis or the other since I love knowledge and I love to write!
The whole idea of the charts and the tables was nectar to me!
This is specially when the Thesis is not yours then the work of research would be done by others and all you have to do is analyse and compile the data!
In an emergency I had finished a whole thesis with the available data in one day! All I had to do was make the specific corrections and modifications and then add the charts and tables!
If the data is already these then it is a piece of eggless sponge cake! Also compared to many in my ‘group’ I was pretty good with the WORD since I had worked as a medical writer for some time! Among the Medical writers I was actually one of the least experienced one but when you compare to the non writes then it is like the one eyed person in the land of the blind!
I also knew that it is imperative to send the thesis on time so that it does not get rejected by flimsy reasons! Since at the time, the center receives a lot of thesis during the exam season, they become more lenient in approval!
But if you delay and send them later then they have only few thesis to see and approve and then they would look through the magnifying glass and see even the smallest errors!
One of the Thesis was rejected from the central board because of some technical issues and my friend just pounced on me for that!
He told me that I no longer try to keep in touch with him and do not talk to him more often!
I had cleared the exam the previous year while he could not and moreover he had moved to another place.
We were anyway not that close but I told him something which was so true even when I did not realise it! I told him, “Yeah right! Just remember that even now the only reason you are talking to me or calling me is to finish your thesis! Once that is over, rest assured unless there is some corrections or modifications, you are never going to call me again!”
I did the modifications and the Thesis was accepted! And yes! My words were prophetic! He (or she!) has not called me for the past several years!
The surprising fact is that I had done around four thesis work during that time and all the four have the same ending! No call back! Not even a Happy deepawali! Of course until the next ‘rejection’ or ‘help’!
Also no! This is not an exercise in self pity! That boat has sailed long back!
Like the author says, TIME is your personal wealth!
You must not feel bad if you cannot give your precious time to everyone!
You are allowed to be thrifty with it! It is your own currency and you have the sole right to spend the way you want!
Another important rule which was told in another self help book was that no one likes to be reminded about how someone was helped by someone else! Of course there are some who would acknowledge the help publicly and proudly but the modern society which is the reel or meme generation likes to do charity ONLY for public or publicity! Which means they do that in the open! But help is taken secretly!
So all said and done, when you say that you do not have time, it simply means that you have priorities! And you do have the right to select your priority so do not feel bad when you say NO!
So you do not have to do many things at one time! Just try to do one thing properly! Multiple things reminds me of Mr Yogi or birthday celebrity Mohan Gokhale!
Now use your time in the night to sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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