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In past few weeks, I noticed that my time vanishes from the clock, as if it has some holes. I planned my days and hours.But end of the day, dead lines were not met in the way I wanted. 

An engineer lost his job, as management of the company decided to outsource the function of maintenance. He was specialist in his field with a lot of talents, added to the years of experience. He got a new job in some other company with a reasonable salary. But his knowledge was put to rust, in new company, as only a small fraction of it was being used.

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Each day of our life we waste lots of gold. Well as I can remember someone has said that " time is gold". So how come we waste this much of time? Just think about it. How many hours do we waste in buses, trains or in traffic jams per a day? How much time we spend thinking about our dreams that haven't come true still?Being exhausted by working or something else how much of time we spend letting your mind wander where ever it feels like going?

The sad thing is all this time we are living in a university; a place full of resources even without knowing it. We have all sorts of knowledge around us. The knowledge we can use for betterment of our and others' lives. God has stored it in different forms. And he checks whether we are awoken enough to identify those sources, whether we are talented enough to absorb the knowledge that has been hidden. And if we are smart enough to locate this hidden treasure, he award us gifts that are really worth, success that we dream of. Let's see what these sources are.

Each day, we live our life through some incidents cause disappointments, frustrations as well as happiness. Despite they grieve our heart or make us happy, they become our experiences ultimately as they add to the book of history. 

But these experiences become beams of light we are in darkness sometimes, when we feel lost among several options or when we are in a dilemma with a confused mind. If we can be opened enough to our past experiences, we can see the lessons lie beneath them which are capable of helping us out. 

We can analyze our experiences. We can see the points where we have failed or which brought us misfortune. Once we see them, we can find the reasons for them. In that way we can use them to deal with our day to day life in a way which is quite useful.

Actually that's one of the reasons for elders being respected in the society.They have gone through lots of things in life and by their experiences they can see things deeper.

Some of us think that they do not have to deal with people much because their jobs are different. I think they are wrong.

People who do businesses or jobs in fields like human resources management have to connect with the people directly. But if you are doing a job in some technical field then also you have to deal with the people because you are recruited by them and your products are finally use by them. And in our life we all have to move and deal with people. So the knowledge of successfully dealing with people and understanding of their behaviors are really useful to all of us.

Dealing with people, it's like both science and an art. Some one can tell you that people are like  this and that. But if you want to swim, you have to get into the pool. That means we have to learn about them by dealing with them. 

Most of the times we are surrounded by people. At our work places, in our schools, in the road and in the market place we have to move with them.

So why don't we use these opportunities to learn about them? Why don't we observe them closely during the times we waste by day dreaming? Listen to them and pay them your attention. Let them feel that they are special. You'll unveil the wonders of human behaviors and you'll have the keys to their hearts.

People who are around us are like closed books that are walking. You must open them up and read. You'll gain a huge knowledge. Because after living this life up to here they must be rich in various kinds of experiences and knowledge. 

I can remember the days that I used to listen to my grandpa on a sofa in the living room. He was closing to 90th flag and his stories about his younger age were always full of wonders and colors. In those days as a teenager I enjoyed them. But its now only I realize the knowledge about life which stored in each one of those stories.  

Books are the best friends that we can ever have. They can leave us wiser and experienced than the people we used to be when we start reading. 

All of us have heard about the great Russian writer 'Maxim Gorky'. Unlike other children who were at his age, he didn't get a chance to get a school education. He had to pass a childhood which was full of miseries. He worked hard, harder than most of us can imagine to make a living. So how come he became one of the greatest writers and a thinker that world has ever seen? Books. His habits of reading books and learning from the people he met did the magic for him.

Make the best use of your time. Read as much as possible.It increases your ability to concentrate while booming your knowledge. If you think you don't have enough time since you are busy, do this simple exercise.

Take a piece of paper and write down the useful things that you have done through out the day. And try to put the time duration for each of those task approximately. Add the number of hours you slept and add the durations of your meals also. Then subtract the total from 24. You'll see the number of hours you have wasted. 

Finally we can come to the conclusion that if we want to learn, there are lots of resources always. So I think I've proved my words above. Let's be mindful and let's learn. 

It's a very flexible, agile animal which can be found almost everywhere throughout the northern temperate, subarctic and arctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America.

The guy was getting ready for a hunt. He was giving witty looks at something and reaching for it carefully, quietly. I thought it was a mouse and screen hadn't shown the animal yet.

Suddenly camera was turned towards his target.

" Oh! My gosh! "

Target was at least 3 - 4 times larger than the stoat. It was a huge rabbit.

And the game was begun as our guy jumped. Rabbit started to run at its top speed. It was running rounds across the grassy land where it was having its supper. It was taking sharp bends to miss the stoat but it wasn't that easy.

Then only I noticed that there were dozens of other rabbits, with watchful eyes and ready to run at any moment. And most interesting thing was during his chase, stoat happened to pass several rabbits those were close to him but seemed like he didn't care. His eyes were glued to the rabbit he chose and that was that.

Still the rabbit was far away from him and I thought he would have to give up. But it was not him.

Chase was there for sometime and slowly stoat started closing in. Finally he managed to reach for a paw and rabbit happened to slow down as the stoat bit its paw. Then he clung on to rabbits' bod and slowly reached his target, the neck and the final bit was fatal.

I was amazed by his focus and discipline. All that time his eyes were on the rabbit but he could have been distracted by other rabbits. If he started chasing after another one he would have to stay hungry because then he would have to start the chase from the beginning no matter how close they were, rabbits are good runners.

In that way he hunted down the rabbit which was 3 - 4 times large than him. 

Unlike the stoat, most of us are running after several rabbits at a time. The result is quite clear. We end up with being tired and empty handed. What are these rabbits ? Those are our tasks in day to day life.

The complain most of us make is that 24 hours is not enough for us to finish our ' must do' s in a day. But the truth is it's more than enough. We run after this rabbit and that rabbit until our time is gone.

You and me have 24  hours per a day. The owner of the world famous ' Virgin' brand, Richard Branson owns more than 360 companies. But still he  manages to reply for the all mails which send to him by his employees,  by himself while looking after all the other businesses. But does he have 48 or 72 hours per a day ? I doubt that.

All of you know about Leo Babuta @ Zen Habits. He is a full time blogger with massive 1, 60, 000+ subscribers and a writer who's been published both online and offline. In his early days he had to work at his 9 - 5 as well as writing to his blog. Yet he managed to post 3 - 5 times a week plus 1 - 3 guest posts on other blogs. And I didn't mention about working as a free lance writer for magazines. And apart from that he had a big family to care about with 6 kids. So how did he do all these things in 24 hours ?

What makes all these difference? It's the power of focusing. Remember the stoats' rule, One rabbit at a time. If we can focus our mind on an one task at a time, it will boost our efficiency.

You love examples.don't you? Imagine you are writing a blog post and your browser stays minimized with inbox opened. Suddenly you get a mail.So you stop writing to peep into inbox. But after reading the mail you decide that you can reply to the mail later because you have this post to finish. Then you move to the post again but by then you've lost your flow so now getting back on the flow consumes your precious time. And when you start replying to that mail later, you find you have to go through it again to reply. If you open the mail after finishing the post it will save you  a lot of time.

That's how Leo Babuta has mentioned about the way he used to focus.

We must improve our ability to focus along with some discipline. It will help us to stay focused without distractions. There are some simple methods to improve concentration of your mind. Simple meditation methods can help you a lot with concentration. I tried this and it is really easy to follow. It worked for me. Try it and it's totally for FREE. 

Be determined to have some disciplines and to continuously practice on concentration. The more you practice on focusing more you live.