Time management is the efficient and effective use of time. Timelines are used in many different situations to help identify key events that require managing time properly. Throughout time, there are various examples that would help us confirm that time is one of the essential factors in war today. No matter what happens we are only given 24 hours in a day. What we choose to do with that time is a huge factor in our everyday lifestyles. When you learn to take control of your time, you improve your ability to focus. And with increased focus comes enhanced efficiency. With these attributes, you will start to breeze through tasks more quickly. Having good time management skills will help you develop a better sense of decision making. When in a combat situation and you are under intense fires, this will come into play. If you are given an order to be somewhere and do something at a specific time, you need to make sure that no matter what, you do everything in your power to get it done. Being on time to certain situations like that can help with the flow of battle. Having a good flow during battle affects your enemy 10 fold. During the battle, there are specific lines that may be physically or notionally set on a battlefield to where the friendly forces will not and should not advance past. Typically with these phase lines comes a time. There needs to be an association between the two. If you have forces that are showing up to your phase lines without having any idea what time and why they are supposed to be there. The flow of battle goes from efficient to failure. Placing timelines on phase lines is an effective way to ensure that the battle moves in a way that continues impose our will on the enemy. The more we learn about ourselves and our abilities to adapt and overcome the difficulties we have in life, the more we learn about the things that affect us in a negative way.
If I would be one of those people who have the hardest time getting up in the morning and I am always late to everything that I am told to beat, maybe I need to take some time and reflect on my time management. There are a few things that we could do to help us mitigate having to be late all of the time to everything we do. We could start going to bed earlier. If you start going to bed earlier, you will have more time to sleep. There are a few things with sleep that can affect us in a negative manner as well. If you lack sleep, it can actually affect your body. Lack of sleep has been linked to weight gain. When you gain weight, ultimately your body is lazier than it would be if you were an active person. being in shape and getting enough sleep your body doesn’t have to work as hard at the little things you do on a daily basis. Good sleep can help you with concentration and productivity. If you wake up in the morning and you are ready to work with your other marines, you will motivate them. If they see you working all the time they will end up wanting to work harder themselves because they want to impress you and their other leadership. Ultimately this will help you effectively show up on time because you will be more motivated to do the simple tasks during the events that happen to you on a daily basis.
Timelines can be made by anyone, from the lowest Private to the president. They are useful to anyone. As a team leader, creating timelines for my marines is extremely important. Being in a leadership position requires you to have detailed plans for events that are happening through a day, week and even a month. During the day, having a plan of what you are doing and what time these things need to be done is crucial to making sure your marines are preoccupied. keep your marines busy will keep them technically and tactfully sound. If they are sitting around every day and not doing anything at all, they will become lazy. A lazy marine is a useless marine. As a team leader if you can’t depend on your marines to be able to do simple things without you being there supervising all of the time you have ultimately failed them. Not having set the proper example on how to be and how to act in certain situations will ensure that Marines will not be adequately prepared to progress in their own careers.
A team leader should set the proper example by not only showing marines the right things to do but also doing them himself. If Marines are constantly being told when to do things, where to do them and how to do them without properly doing them, they won’t know anything other than being a boss. There is a difference between being a boss and being a leader. A leader tells his Marines what needs to be done and shows them the proper way of doing things by doing them himself. Being a boss is someone who constantly tells marines to do the things he doesn’t want to do because they are difficult tasks that he doesn’t want to do. Junior marines feed off of what their leadership shows them. If they have leaders that set the proper example, they will be more inclined to do things that they weren’t told to do but do them regardless because they know it is the right thing to do.
