Time is an important factor that has to be managed properly to make progress. Good time-management is an essential element for attaining your goals and being successful.

As the saying goes, time wasted is time lost.

Try to be conscious of the fact that each minute that passes only occurs once. When it’s over, you lose one more opportunity to achieve your objectives.

After setting clear goals for yourself, the second thing to do is set up a system for managing your time, according to what you want to achieve.

Every minute of your life should be devoted to some useful occupation. That doesn’t mean your schedule has to be constraining, or overburden you with too many things to do. When that happens you get discouraged, and you could give-up too soon.

Creative time-management is something all successful people know how to do.

Divide your time between work – occupations designed to help you make progress in getting what you want in your professional life – and leisure activities that help you relax, and get rid of some of the stress you accumulate on your quest for success.

Devote two thirds of your time to your projects, and one third to leisure. That will balance your use of time perfectly, and enable you to move forward more quickly towards attaining the life of your dreams.

You can’t do anything about the way time passes, but you can organize it so it suits your purposes. That’s how you can become the master of your own time.