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Benjamin Franklin used to say that "if you like your life don't waste your time because it's the material your life is made of". I totally agree with this quotation, it's one hundrend percent true. Unfortunately, very often we waste our time by sleeping too much, doing needless things or just sitting in front of computer serfing global net without any aim (it's very actual for the XXI century). Turn your head back to your past and answer the question: was your time been spent in the most useful and practical way or not? Most of all will choose the second answer, and so did I. Thoughts about minutes, hours, days, months and even years of time-wasting makes me sad, and the only person to blame is myself.

But, as the famous Russian proverb says, "late" is better than "never". Imagine your life organised with maximum quality, you always have time and prohibility to do anything you want, every second of your daily routine is under control. The thing that was feigned to help us is called "time-management". It is not actually a science, but it has very much in common with psychology and sociology. You can hardly find a person who has never heard about it, but you can twice hardly find a person who uses time-management postulates in his everyday life. Book stores are nowadays full of publications devoted to time-management, so it wouldn't be a problem for you to find, read and chew one or several of them. 

The main piece of advice I want to give you (according to the books) is "planning". Remember, that successful man is well-selforganised man. Begin to plan your daily deals, problems and cases beforehand - it'll bring you at least 2 hours of freetime every day. Let daily books and electronic organisers be your best friends from this moment. Write everything you want to do, should do and must do in your diary. Roughly speaking, if you always forget about cleaning your teeth before going to bed, write it in your diary with remark: "the most important problem. Solve it for sure", - soon cleaning teeth wil become such a habit for you as breathing. 

The second piece of advice is waking up as early as possible. As another Russian proverb says: "Who gets up early is rewarded by God". The most successful businessmen and other celebrities wake up even at 5 or 5:30 AM. What for? They have at least an hour more to think about forthcoming day than to-sleep-lovers! Every second of their workday they are awared about what they have already done, what they are doing at the moment and what they will do two hours later. Their efficiency is unbelievable, it seems that they are some kind of  superheroes, but in fact they are merely well-organised human beings. Is it necessary to compare them with unorganised and nervous people like ourselves?

And I want to finish with the third piece of advice: it is called delegation. Don't be scared to delegate some of your problems to other people, especially if they are your subordinate colleagues. Have you ever seen your director doing something that every fool could do? Very rarely, I think. Every smart manager delegates most of his work to others, and, so he has more time to solve the most important and complicated problems (or just think about the gift to donate to his wife, how to spend his vacations and what is the main sense of life). 

Good luck!

P.S. My friends, Happy New Year to all of you! Best regards :) 

Yours sincerely,

Tyoma