A Time For Everything

Dear Reader,

How are you doing? I hope you had a marvelous week!

It's been a while since I posted an entry and I cannot wait to share with you lovelies what I have been doing these days that I have not been writing.

The review proper just started. Hooray! To those of you who have not read my first entry, I am an Accountancy graduate, and now I am preparing for the board exam. So my time is mostly spent on reading lecture notes, answering drills, and problems. But of course, I always make time for church activities, and a devotional even if it's just 30 minutes in a day, to feed my soul. :)

And speaking of time, it is the most precious thing we humans have. We cannot seem to have enough time in a day right? I mean we all have 24 hours in a day, but why is it that some people seem to have more time than others? The answer to that is proper time management. I myself, am a victim of unwise time management when I was in my younger years,(until now, actually) but when I got into college, things got more chaotic and my schedule was a mess! I've had a lot of things undone because of my poor time management skills.

But praise the Lord that over the years, I have discovered how to keep my schedule organized and I found out that keeping a weekly/hourly planner was the way to go. You can easily keep track of how much time you spend time on something and you can also plot in advance your priorities for the week. This is a lot easier than keeping a mental note on things that we need to do, because human as we are, we tend to forget things, so better be safe and write it down. I personally like to color-code my schedule because aside from their cuteness factor, I can easily identify which things do I need to do first.

The second thing that I found effective that maybe would help you manage your time as well
, especially in the field of academics, is using the Pomodoro technique. What this technique says is that you divide your time between work and then break, so that you can maximize the number of hours in which your brain is in full attention. This also helps you focus on one task to the next. The usual time denominations are 25/5 mins. or 50/10.

What about you? What has been an effective tool for you to manage your time? :)


Ecclesiastes 3 perfectly tells us that there is always a time for everything.

3 There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

²     a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
³     a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
⁴     a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
⁵     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
⁶     a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
⁷     a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
⁸     a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.

⁹ What do workers gain from their toil? ¹⁰ I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. ¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet^[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. ¹² I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. ¹³ That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. ¹⁴ I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

¹⁵ Whatever is has already been,
    and what will be has been before;
    and God will call the past to account.^[b]

¹⁶ And I saw something else under the sun:

In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
    in the place of justice—wickedness was there.

¹⁷ I said to myself,

“God will bring into judgment
    both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
    a time to judge every deed.”

¹⁸ I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. ¹⁹ Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath^[c]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. ²⁰ All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. ²¹ Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”

²² So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?"

It has been always a challenge for me to manage my time, even until now, I still stumble and fall. Perhaps we all do. But what matters is that we keep on standing up and moving forward each day.

And with that I'll leave you a very lovely reminder from 2 Corinthians 4:16-18  "So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,  as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal." 

Have a great day! 

Yours eternally, 

Chiqui