How to Take a Time Management Course When You Have No Time at All.
Working at Russobit-M, with all the crunches, projects, and deadlines. And then the company offers — time management courses. Seriously. With a certificate and everything.
The hardest part of the entire training? Finding the time for it. That was the ultimate proficiency test. While everyone was talking about the Eisenhower Matrix and time tracking, my top priority was just physically making it to the class. Harder than any case study.
I had to apply the future skills before even learning them. Ruthlessly set priorities (goodbye, personal life for a couple of weeks), delegate what I could (thanks, colleagues!), and literally squeeze those hours into a schedule that was already bursting at the seams.
But I made it. And yes, they gave me a certificate. Now it sits there, reminding me not so much about planning, but about how sometimes, to learn how to manage time, you first have to win a battle against it. A real one.
Since then, by the way, no deadline has scared me. After that ordeal, they all just seem like cute little calendar reminders.
