Clocks in Time Management

Clocks are everywhere. They are in our mobiles, on the car radio, on our computer desktop, on our real desktop, on our microwave ovens. Does it not look like we are slaves of Time? To be a slave is boring, humiliating and is not the best way to build relations with Time. Time as any boss will not respect slaves.

No wonder, that we do not especially like a time management program that encourages us to be a slave to Time. Women, as more emotional creatures probably always felt this. Have you noticed that women's watches are usually smaller than men's? I believe it is because women are more sensitive to the dullness of the time monitoring. Besides women are more aural creatures and probably always prefer to hear the time rather than see it. You may also notice that the clock in Microsoft Windows taskbar is small and hardly visible. I believe that Microsoft carried out the investigation and found out that large bright clocks are appealing for short time but become boring in the long run.

As any monotonous and time consuming job time monitoring should be delegated. Wealthy people always delegated it either to a servant or to the secretary. Time management tools prior to this new fifth generation did not take into account the nature of Time, and instead of saving us time, they often forced us to devote more hours to time management.

Good relations with Time require clocks to be changed so that they would appear only when we summon them. It would be even better if they could talk and tell us the time with a pleasant voice. Software has only recently become available that keeps track of Time for us and allows us to live in comfort. It includes text and voice computer alarms and reminders as well as software that periodically announces the date and time. To avoid causing stress for the listener(s), it is very important for the announcement to be made with the voices of persons we like or with our own.

We of course still need the clock, for example to see whether we have enough time even to begin a new job. But certainly, we do not need clocks in such quantity every moment of out life. Good relations with Time require that clocks, as our servants and Time agents, appear when we summon them and disappear from our sight when we do not need them. With Your Voice Reminder software it is possible.

Time awareness and clocks though important and common is only the simplest form of the communication with Time. As with people, to establish communication and be on really good term with Time, we should always be close to him. As is well known, Time always "flies" and we should be ready to move together with him. In other words, we should not be ahead of Time and, what is more important, we should not allow Time to pass us by. In the next chapter we will consider how we may manage moving with Time.