Time. Metaphorically, someone who never stops running, immortal, self-proclaimed, someone who is full of life, but is lifeless. Theoretically, it is another bewildering dimension, something that scientists understand, but the most confusing thing humans could ever grasp. Such a wide area to ever wonder about, is as fragile as the veins of a leaf, is just as important to entrepreneurs as the sun is to the earth.

Sudhanshu Ranjan, Founder of Innovative Machineries Agro India Pvt. Ltd., once said “At times, I keep staring at the clock and wonder how I have spent my whole day, working without accomplishing any goals. We can’t control time, but I want to make the best use of my 24 hours”.

Like an old folklore, there is a common saying that time is like money to entrepreneurs. Time is such a pivotal, climacteric thing, that managing it in the right way, in a wise way to put in words, would make you earn profits to a huge extent. Studies have shown that time management would in fact exert a fine and an upright influence in the minds of newbie entrepreneurs. Time management is a lesson that teaches entrepreneurs to prioritize their work in a proper way. As something found from profound statistics, it would in a way reduce stress. To all the aspiring entrepreneurs out there, let’s dive into a rollercoaster ride of prominence of Mr.Time.

Understanding the value of time is a crucial step in management of time. Time can be complex, complexity which is a multiple of quantum theory. But just as the devotion to God, once turned poison to nectar, a devotion to surrender yourself to managing time in the wisest way, could turn every second into a dollar. Everything has a pro and a con, just like how everyone has a face of good and evil. So does time management. Prioritizing things, would leave someone or something upset, but that is exactly when ‘management in a wise way’ steps in. With a goal oriented mind, and good ethics, time management has proved itself to be a damsel itself. Managing time as an entrepreneur is like orchestrating a symphony – each task is an instrument, and success comes from conducting them harmoniously to create a well-timed masterpiece.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.” - Peter Drucker

The aftermath of understanding the value of time management is that the person would feel it in their guts the need to prioritize tasks, set achievable deadlines, and delegate responsibilities. Next crucial step, that most people fight between heaven and earth, is eliminating distractions and everything else that would waste time. This actually needs a determined mentality. Unless the person is determined to his mindset, his ideology, he can never be a good entrepreneur. Next the person should schedule every event from head to toe, and then learn to handle stress and failures. Because failures are inevitable in a journey of start-up. And one last point, and of course not the least, is that time management in a way will make you understand how to adapt for sudden changes, and makes you have instantaneous reflexes to sudden burnouts.

“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

• Bill Gates

Managing time for entrepreneurs is akin to managing a budget. Each hour is a currency, and allocating it wisely can lead to a profitable outcome. Just as financial resources are budgeted for maximum returns, entrepreneurs allocate their time strategically to activities that yield the most significant impact on business growth. Prioritizing tasks becomes analogous to making wise investments, ensuring optimal returns on the limited resource of time.

Like Hades to Persephone, managing time would make the way clear, of all blurs, of all dust, to entrepreneurs. Once a second wasted, it would remain in the fossils of time, like an Achilles' heel. A simple topic, time management, most often people would take granted for, is like the midrib to a leaf. Just like how a leaf is about to fall off from a branch, and the midrib holds it as if it is the leaf’s last hope, time management is sometimes the last hope for a breakdown in an entrepreneur’s failure. Remember, time that is gone is gone forever.

Time is indeed complex, and the sea would be so honest, only if you dare to drown in her.