There is an app for it: The one with the time-management apps

There is an app for that: The one with the Time-Management apps

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Dear Reader,?

How are you? That is a question that many of us ask each other in emails. But I want to start with something different. What is the colour of your eyes? Baffled! Many of us don’t know, if we know we do not know the exact shade and how would you name it? We see ourselves in the mirror every day. We see but we never observe. Seeing is easy observation requires patience. So with this series of emails/write-ups, I want you to take a pause and observe, think and reflect.?

We all have had those moments when we hate taking that bitter pill, but your parent has forced it down your throat. Or we do not want to sit and work but your tutor pushed us through. If you are a teenager with all the angst in the world have your parents ever confiscated your phone and you thought the world has come to an end? There are examples of tough love. Things we do not like but our loved ones still do that for us or to us. So with this series, I am writing to MYP Community about solutions for some of the challenges people face.??Sharing some pills we all know we need but avoid. I intentionally use the word people and not students because adults know that we do need some help with a lot of things in our life.?

While facts and information are a pretty important part of education, it is skill development that helps us navigate the world. The pandemic has connected us in more ways than ever. While companies like apple have started thinking about finding a balance with features like screen time. There are thousands of digital and analogue solutions for our day-to-day issues. I am not trying to be a guru or a messiah. Just sharing the ideas I have and that might be a solution that you needed.??Do you have one? Share it with us and we will create a tool kit to rely on when we need it. Bernard Shaw said, “If you have an idea and I have an idea and we give each other an idea we will have two ideas.” So that is what I intend to do.?

Today’s theme: Where did the time go??

Time as a concept is pretty vague. It is a construct. While it unites us it also creates differences- time differences. We all have had those days when sitting with a cup of coffee in the evening we feel where did the time go? What did??I do? But we never realise that while we were trying to finish writing that email or trying to do that homework. We juggled, multitasked between 50 different tabs, watch 658 YouTube videos, and DMed our friends. All of them by the way are pretty important things.??I think we have forgotten a very important thing as humans we were not created to multitask. If you don’t agree walk into my office and we will play a small game. The biggest product in the market today is our focus. And we need tools to recapture our focus.?

So with this series, I am going to share two apps/analogue solutions in every letter.??There are thousands of them. These are the ones that worked for me, and I am sure they may help some of you too. Well if it does not, you will still thank me that you learnt that it did not work for you. The funny thing with our brain is if It starts thinking that if this did not work for me, what will? It will try to figure out what solution or app or idea does work for you. And that is a good place to be.

App 1: Forest: Curious? Watch this video

App 2: Pomodoro:?Yes I speak fluent Spanish !!!!?

With each email, I am also taking the liberty to share a book recommendation that has helped me develop a better understanding of this subject. So while today’s email might sound like that I have shared two ways of time management. The big conversation is about our?Stolen focus?and we need to take it back collectively as humanity.?

See the thing with tough love is, that it is not negative, it is often misunderstood. And we all can do a little better with some.?

Till next Tuesday.

Jiten