How Efficient you are at work

Most of us follow a practice of routinizing our day to day activities, usually the stuffs in office. For example, we might have N number of activities to do. Hence, we often set time lines for finishing up various activities. It is not so surprising that we cannot finish the day’s work. We curse circumstances having too much of work and less time. On the other side, we might come across people who would have finished almost the equal quantity of work within that much time, perhaps in less time. How only few people have finished their tasks while everyone put equal efforts to do their respective tasks? Let’s find out why. One of the qualities of human mind is that, it rambles very fast. The mind of a normal man keeps shifting its focus continuously; it is very difficult to set it fixed at one place or
point for a long time.

For example, you are reading this article now.:

The same article can be read in 3 minutes by person “A” and in 5 minutes by person “B” whereas both of them have the same intellect. A could read the same in less time because it could fix the focus of his mind better than B. Now the question is- why our mind rambles?
Anxiety about the future or worry about the past could be one reason for such unstable mind. While doing a certain task, we might start worrying about what happened in the last appraisal where we could not meet the project deadlines resulting in a bad rating. It could also come to our mind that what we should do to make this year’s projects successful. Our own mind won’t let us do our tasks, and we blame that there was shortage of time. It destroys the peace and productivity.

We spend around 10 hours in a day in office. But out of that, how much are we actually utilizing. I would like you to take up the question to yourself and check out your own productivity. Most of us will be surprised to see the ratio of productive hours against unproductive hours. The general consensus around the world is 30 to 40 per cent of time utilization. In other words, the work which should ideally take 3 to 4 hours takes 10 hours. It is the reason we keep complaining that we do not have time. But the truth is we do not have the intellect to keep the mind in present. If we can do that, we would have all the time in the world.

This rambling of mind not only kills the productivity, but it also causes tired ness. We often feel fatigued at the end of the day; some people even need a drink. Whereas, the kids do not usually get tired even after jumping around, dancing, kicking the whole day. We are physically stronger than them but yet we get more tired as compared to kids. It is because, we get mentally week. The kids do not have any anxiety of the future or any worry about the past. Hence, they have boundless energy. They can live in the present, better than us. If we could control our intellect to live in present, we would also have the same energy as kids. The secret of some one’s efficiency lies in his power to control the mind.