DATA, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP

Social Model of Disability in IT Projects

Lavanya Madras Purushothaman

As a person who worked/working in many major IT change and Transformational projects, the key part is understanding the requirements firmly, so effective solution can be identified and implemented to solve the organizational problem.

As part of the requirements gathering, one of the key element to consider is the the Social Model of Disability

So, What is Social Model of Disability?

The Social Model of Disability is a model acknowledges that it is not the individual’s disability that creates barriers, but rather it is society that needs to change to remove these barriers. The model emphasizes the need for changes in society to remove barriers and enable people with disabilities to participate fully and equally in all aspects of life.

This includes changes in the built environment, such as making buildings and transportation accessible, as well as changes in attitudes and beliefs about disability, such as valuing diversity and recognizing the contributions that people with disabilities make to society.

Role of Social Model Disability in IT Projects:

In IT projects, the social model of disability plays an important role because it can help the developers and designers to create technology that is more inclusive and accessible for people with disabilities. The model also emphasizes the importance of involving people with disabilities in the design process to ensure that their needs and preferences are taken into account. This can lead to technology that is more user-centered and meets the needs of a wider range of users.

Additionally it also helps organisation to meet/promote:

  1. Business Users and Customer Satisfaction: By designing technology with accessibility in mind, organizations can increase their potential customer base and improve user satisfaction.
  2. Promote Social Inclusion and equal participation: Adopting the social model of disability, developers and designers can create technology that is more inclusive and accessible for people with disabilities promoting social inclusion and equal participation in society for people with disabilities.
  3. Legal Obligations: In many countries, there are legal requirements to ensure that technology is accessible for people with disabilities. Failing to consider the social model of disability can lead to legal risks and potential liability for organizations.

Social Model of Disability IT requirements:

Below are the key IT requirements to be considered based on the social model of disability to create technology that is more inclusive and accessible for people with disabilities, based on the principles of the social model of disability.

  1. Inclusivity: People with disabilities to be involved in the design process to ensure the technology to work with a wide range of assistive technologies.
  2. Accessibility: Ensure to provide alternative input methods, ensure that content is easily readable, and provide captions and transcripts for multimedia content.
  3. Usability: Technology should be designed with a focus on usability, meaning that it should be easy to use and understand for all users, including those with disabilities. This includes using clear and simple language, providing intuitive navigation, and minimizing the number of steps required to complete a task etc.
  4. Compatibility: Technology should be designed to be compatible with a wide range of devices and software, including assistive technologies used by people with disabilities. Such as ensuring that the technology works well with screen readers, braille displays, and other assistive technologies etc.
  5. Testing: Technology should be tested with people with disabilities to ensure that it is accessible, usable, and inclusive for all users. This includes involving people with wide range of disabilities, such as visual impairments, hearing impairments, and mobility impairments etc.

Challenges and Limitations:

We all now understand that social model of disability is a powerful framework for creating technology that is more inclusive and accessible for people with disabilities. However, it is equally important to recognize the potential challenges and limitation we may have in IT Project world to adopt the social model effectively. Some of the key challenges are

  1. Complexity: Designing technology that is inclusive and accessible for people with disabilities can be complex, especially when there are multiple types of disabilities to consider. This can make the design process more time-consuming and expensive.
  2. Lack of Awareness: Some developers and designers may not be aware of the social model of disability or the importance of accessibility in technology design. This can lead to technology that is not inclusive or accessible, which can limit its usefulness and exclude certain users.
  3. Limited Resources: Some organizations may not have the resources or expertise to design technology that is inclusive and accessible for people with disabilities. This can limit their ability to adopt the social model of disability in IT projects.

Despite the complexity, it is our responsibility to take into account on the social model of disability as it helps to promote a more inclusive and equitable society, and provides a framework for addressing the systemic barriers faced by people with disabilities.

IDEAS, LEADERSHIP, TIME MANAGEMENT, Uncategorized

How to run an effective virtual meeting?

Lavanya Madras Purushothaman

Meetings….. Meetings……Meetings…… And Meetings…….its meetings all the time.  And especially with Covid 19 and all these work from home scenarios, things are not normal.  Even small conversation that could be possibly covered over a causal office corridor catch up is all on virtual calls. I am sure, just like mine, all your calendars are also clogged with a countless number of virtual meetings, and without any doubt, we all are struggling to find the most required focus time to do the actual work on deliverables.

Despite all these infinity numbers of meetings, do you feel that you not only end up spending more time than anticipated but still feel you end up not being able to all the required information?  Well, don’t panic, because you are not alone. I was in a similar situation, and today I would like to share some key steps I followed and was of great help.   

During this pandemic times, the organisations are able to deliver the project by connecting people online successfully.  So, thanks to the tech and the Internet. 

The online meeting has many advantages, such as less travel cost and time, bringing people together who usually cannot have the opportunity to join the discussion without being on-site. Although there are advantages in having these virtual meeting, we still cannot ignore the cons, such as technical difficulties, delay in starting the meeting, deciphering body language cues, managing distraction, and keeping the group focused. 

But by following the below steps, we can achieve a better outcome from the virtual meetings.

Plan –

Planning is critical when it comes to scheduling an online meeting. Firstly, before calling a formal meeting, ensure your topic requires a formal meeting and something that can’t be answered by an email.

Send an agenda –

Prepare a clear agenda ahead of time.  Make sure to include items that your participants want to prepare.  Distribute it to the meeting attendees so they are all aware of what will be covered during our meeting session. This also allows people to get back on any questions they may have, their roles and assignments.  If there’s something you want everyone prepared to discuss, place that on the agenda.

Be specific on who is invited to the meeting –

Although it easier for attendees to join the session irrespective of their geographical location, as an organiser, make sure you do not extend the meeting invite more than required people and fill the forum with extraneous people.  Only invite those who need to be there.  Remember, a focused group is always better.

Establish expectations –

At the beginning of the meeting, reserve some time to establish the meeting’s purpose.  Please go through the agenda (it would help bring new participants who joined at the last min to speed).  Set clear roles, including facilitator and assign/check for someone to take action points and record any decision.  Agree on ground rules such as mentioning the names and going on mute when not speaking.  Communicate if the meeting session will be recorded, and everyone is aware of it and agree on how actions will be communicated and followed up. 

Keep the session Interactive as possible –

With online meetings managing distractions or keeping them focused is hard.  As not all the time, people would have their video on all times.  So, here are a few tips to keep the session interactive.  Try using software that is fun, and allow social sentiments like giving thumbs up etc.  Try using open ending questions.  Encourage attendee not to save questions till the end of the presentation and ask their questions as a comment in the chatbox while presenting and make sure to read them and address them during the session as long as they are on topic.

Watch the time and stay on topic –

This is key as it is often easy to go off-topic.  So make sure you stick with the time on each topic and stay on schedule. 

Summarise action items –

Make sure to close the meeting by summarising the action items. Let know the attendees that a follow-up email will be sent out listing actions, responsible person to action, and deadline. 

I hope these tips are helpful, and before we wrap up the article, below are the most common Video Conferencing Tech that I have used

  1. Microsoft Teams
  2. Zoom
  3. Join.Me
  4. GoToMeetng
  5. Google Meet

So what video conferencing tech does your organisation use?

DATA, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Our DATA, Our Rights!

Lavanya Madras Purushothaman

I recently had an opportunity to work on a very interesting GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) project to ensure our client is fully GDPR compliant.  It was an exciting journey, and today, I am here to share my knowledge on what it means for an individual when it comes to GDPR policy and what are our data rights!

Firstly, what is GDPR?

GDPR (General data protection regulation) policy is a data protection policy came into effect in the UK on 25th May 2018 which applies to all organisation located in EU and also to all organisation outside EU if they offer goods and services subject to EU data.  In a nutshell, GDPR applies to all companies processing and holding the personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union, regardless of the company’s location.

All organisation should be GDPR compliance by ensuring that all the personal data that are stored and processed follows the key seven principles such as Lawfulness, fairness and transparency, Accuracy, Data minimisation, Integrity and confidentiality (security), Accountability, Purpose limitation and Storage limitation. 

Personal data in terms of GDPR:  This is a piece of information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

The organisation not compiling with GDPR will face a financial penalty which could be a maximum fine of 4% of their annual global turnover or €20 Million. 

But what does this policy mean to an individual’s?

While all organisation is taking all action to ensure they compile with the GDPR policy, on the other hand, it is equally vital for an individual to know how organisation use our personal data and what are our rights on our data. 

But why? Well, because today we live in a data-driven world, where our personal data such as name, email address, telephone number, address etc. are collected at various circumstances by various organisation for a distinct purpose.  For example, our personal data gets collected when we make an online application, online booking and reservation for a hotel, flights, posting on social media, data sharing/transferring, browsing various websites etc. 

So, below are the eight rights for individuals on their personal DATA!

1. Right to be informed:  

Should we be informed when an organisation collects my data?

The answer is, BIG YES! When an organisation collects the personal data, it should provide the individual with the privacy information.  If an organisation received our information from a different source, they should still provide us with a privacy notice within one-month time.

So, what are the information that should be included in the ‘privacy information’?

The privacy policy should include information on the below two key items:

  • Personal data:  Organisation should inform us if they collect and process our personal data. We should be informed on the list and type of our data used, how long our data will it be retained along with the retention purpose. If the data is used in profiling. 
  • Data sharing/receiving: Organisation should inform us if our data are shared with 3rd parties or overseas countries. In which case they must also provide with the information on the 3rd parties or the country name to which our data is shared with along with the purpose for sharing our data and the ways it is intended to be processed.

Additionally, the organisation should let us know as to how to contact them and our rights to complain to ICO.

2. Right to Access:  

As an individual, we have the right to know if an organisation is processing or storing our personal data. 

We can make the request to the organisation either verbally or in written to restrict access to your data.

3. Right to rectification:  

If the data held by the organisation is inaccurate or incomplete, then as an individual, we have the right to correct and rectify them by contacting the organisation.

Can the organisation refuse to comply with the request for rectification of data?

Yes, the organisation could refuse to rectify the data in certain circumstances, such as if the request is repetitive in nature. In these cases, the request could be rejected, or the organisation could charge a reasonable fee to process a request.

If the request is rejected, then the individual should be notified on the reason of rejection and informed on their right to make complain to ICO (Information commissioner’s office). 

4. Right to erasure: 

GDPR introduces the right for the individual to get their personal data held by the organisation to be deleted, which is also called as “the right to be forgotten”.  However, this request is not absolute, and the right only applies in the circumstances such as

  •     Your company do require to hold your data,
  •     You have withdrawn your consent.
  •     When the organisation processed data unlawfully.

5. Right to restrict processing:

As an individual, we have the rights to limit the ways an organisation could process the data.   In this case, an organisation can still store the data but could be restricted for the ways it can use the data. Restriction to processing the data is only temporary, and this can be lifted once it is found ok to do so. But the organisation should inform the individual before the lifting of the restriction. 

6. Right to data portability:

This right is to allow individuals to transfer their personal data (only to the data that the individual provides content to) from one system to another in a secure way enabling us as a user to use our personal data across various services. 

We can request an organisation to transfer all our electronic data from their system to another.  This data includes not only the data that an individual has provided but also other information the organisation would have collected such as

  • Data collected by wearable device or any device that collects data
  • Information collected on your location
  • Search and website history etc.

7. Right to object:

The next right is the right to object/stop our personal data being processed by an organisation for certain circumstances such as direct marketing and sales etc.  When individual requests to object, an organisation should stop using our data unless otherwise, they can provide with the valid reason to proceed/continue processing the data.

8. Rights related to automated decision making including profiling:

There are two other ways our data is used

  • Automatic decision making without any human intervention
  • Profiling, which means our information is used to analyse us.  E.g. Using your data to analyse your interests etc. for further marketing purpose.

Unless there is an ultimate necessity or have consent from the individual, the organisation cannot carry out the profiling.  The organisation should also make sure that the individual is informed on the processing. 

Requesting the organisation: 

As an individual, we have all the above right, and we can request any of the above to an organisation either verbally or by written for which the organisation should respond back within one calendar month.  The service is free of charge in most circumstances, but there could be a minimal fee under certain circumstances, such as if it is an excessive or repetitive task.

And finally, we have reached to the end of this post…. Once again just to remind you all; We live in a data driven world, and it is essential to be aware of our data rights! So always remember ……..

Our DATA, Our Rights!

LEADERSHIP

Don’t be afraid to fail, afraid not to try!

Lavanya Madras Purushothaman

What is Failure?

It is simply a word used to describe the situation when we did not receive the result we want. I was that one of those people who was trying to go through life trying to avoid failure as much as possible until recently I realised that failure is inevitable and imperative. Everyone fails in life at one point or other, especially when you pursue something out of your comfort zone.  I have failed in many things in life, from small failures like failing my driving test to big ones like failing my first business ventures in 2006. I was completely shattered and lost total confidence in myself and worst of all fear of failure consumed me!

Psychologist Martin Seligman explained that there are three ways in which our internal beliefs or narratives become damaging. 

  1. By making the failure personal: i.e. “I failed, so I must be a failure”. 
  2. By taking it Pervasive: “i.e. I failed in this instance, so I’ll probably fail in every instance”.
  3. By making it feel that it is Permanent: i.e. “I failed once, so I’ll probably fail always”.

Of course, each of these three narratives is a lie, but at that moment of failure it feels very true. And believe me I went through all of the three at one point of my life when I failed my first business.

I thought that success is all about having that one opportunity, But I was wrong!  Because Failure was there to stop me. In fact, I realised that failures were not actually there to stop me, but they are there to grow me.  My failures were a sign of showing me where I went wrong. It not only showed me that I failed in my business due to lack of research on setting my target audience, poor estimation and planning.  It helped me to identify my weaknesses and pointed me to focus on them so I made the required adjustment to get the right result when I hit the ground again in 2014.  That’s why they say that there is no success without failure!.

So the good news is – It’s OK to fail!. But what is not ok is being afraid of failing at something that you decide not to try it at all. 

Key Lessons we learn from our failures:

It is only through the failure we learn some of the most valuable lessons that sometimes success forgets to show or teach us.

  1. Failures are the moments which help you to discover who your real friends are!
  2. Failures help you to learn where and how you went wrong and discover your weaknesses!
  3. It is during these moments you discover how strong as a person you are!
  4. It is this period which tests how passionate you are about your ideas and your mission.

Famous Failures:

A newspaper editor once fired Walt Disney because Disney lacked creativity and imagination.  But that did not put him off; he continued despite those failures.  Today here is the man responsible for an empire of imaginative movies and play for children around the world. 

Henry Ford’s first two companies failed. The first one went bankrupt. And the second one ending up in a big dispute. But it was his third try that really sealed the deal.

Failure does not mean that you are not good enough, it merely says that you must do better, you must switch your mindset, think and revive your approach. Once you start seeing failure as feedback to improving yourself, then you become unstoppable, and your success will be inevitable. As Charles Darwin rightly quotes “It’s not the strongest but the most adaptable that survive.”

What can be the best teacher than failure?. If you do not fail in any of your endeavours, how do you learn to be better? Remember, often valuable insights come only after a failure.  Accepting and learning from those insights is the key to succeeding in life because success is not a onetime thing; it takes huge efforts, persistence, commitment and failures!.

CLOUD COMPUTING, DATA, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

What is Cloud Computing?

Lavanya Madras Purushothaman

In a very simplest term, cloud computing is nothing but internet-based computing, which means enabling access/delivering servers, network, database, storages and a various broad range of applications over the internet otherwise called “the cloud” available on a pay as you go basis. 


Cloud computing has become more popular and adaptable due to its various benefits as below:

  • Time to market
  • Low cost (Pay only for services and storage used).
  • Easily scalable and highly flexible
  • Better data security
  • No need for a dedicated team for hardware and software maintenance
  • No physical server space required.
  • Better data recovery
  • More team collaboration

Different types of cloud

Different types of cloud computing

Public Cloud – This type of cloud infrastructure the ones available to the general public.  E.g. Google drive.  Some of the dominant providers of this type of cloud infrastructure are AWS, Microsoft Azure and IBM’s Blue cloud.

Private Cloud – This type of cloud infrastructure is dedicated cloud available and operated by an independent organisation that can be managed by the organisation or a third party and could exist in on premises or off premises.  AWS is one of the major providers of private cloud. 

Hybrid Cloud – Hybrid cloud computing is the combination of public and private cloud allowing to combine data and services from various clouds.

Popular types of service models:

Types of Service models

There is three types of service models available.  Understand which cloud service is suitable for an organisation is vital.

SaaS (Software as a service) – In this model, users gain access to application software and databases where the cloud providers manage infrastructure and platforms required to run the applications. SaaS also referred to as “on-demand software” are usually priced on a pay-per-use basis or using a subscription fee. [1]

PaaS (Platform as a service) – In this model, the vendor deliver a computing platform, typically including operating system, programming language execution environment, database, and web server for application developers to develop and run their software solutions on a cloud platform with the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and software layers.[3]

IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) – “Infrastructure as a service” (IaaS) refers to online services that provide high-level APIs used to dereference various low-level details of underlying network infrastructure like physical computing resources, location, data partitioning, scaling, security, backup etc.  In this model, providers deliver resources on-demand from their large pools of equipment installed in data centres.[2]

Cloud providers:

Some of the popular cloud service providers in the market are Amazon web services, Google cloud platform, IBM cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle and Alibaba Cloud.

Below table lists out the popular providers and their website for more details on their services.

Cloud Providers Weblink
Amazon Web Services https://aws.amazon.com/
Google Cloud Platform https://cloud.google.com/
IBM Cloud https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/
Microsoft Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/
Oracle Cloud https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/home
Alibaba Cloud https://www.alibabacloud.com/

The reasons like scalability, security, low cost are popular reasons for organisations to opt for cloud computing services.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 2018

The figure shows the Gartner magic quadrant for cloud IaaS 2018. Amazon Web Services tops the leader list with Microsoft Azure being close behind. Additionally, Google cloud platform has made into the leaders segment.


Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide. – Source (Gartner – May 2018)

The two major players leading today/s market are Amazon web services and Microsoft Azure. With Google making into the leaders segment this year and the rise of Alibaba cloud certainly puts them on competitor radar. So what’s the best suitable provider for your business?

References:

 [1] “Definition of: SaaS”. PC Magazine Encyclopedia. Ziff Davis. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
[2] “ElasticHosts Blog”. Elastichosts. 2014-04-01. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
[3] Boniface, M.; et al. (2010). Platform-as-a-Service Architecture for Real-Time Quality of Service Management in Clouds. 5th International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW). Barcelona, Spain: IEEE. pp. 155–160. doi:10.1109/ICIW.2010.91.

DATA, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Is Data Lake a game changer for an organisation?

Lavanya Madras Purushothaman

 Data is merely a collection of facts and figures in a raw or unorganised form which can be text, numbers audio clips, video clips and pictures that will be processed to convert into meaningful information.

Today’s issue:  In today world success depends on acting too quickly.  Hence from small businesses to large corporates use and depend on data to process meaningful information to understand their customers, competitions, market and to make any key business decision making. 

Managing a large volume of data is a big challenge as data can be produced and stored within multiple functional areas of the business, within different systems databases and sources. And these data are always not in the same format and can be structured, unstructured, machine two machine or semi-structured. 

Can data lake be a solution?

Data lakes is a powerful architectural approach for the growing variety and volume of data. James Dixon (then chief technology officer at Pentaho) allegedly coined the term [1] to contrast it with data mart which is a smaller repository of interesting attributes derived from raw data.[2].

What is a data lake?

A data lake is a centralised repository that stores Big datafrom a various source in its natural state at any scale.  These data stored in the lake can be either on-premises or in the cloud which can be used further by various users forvarious purposes.  

Image source: 3dprint.com/126372/data-security-in-3d-printing

Benefits of Data Lakes:

Versatility- One of the most key advantages is its ability and the possibility to store all types of data, in other words, it can store text, multimedia, people and social data. (All structured, semi-structured, unstructured etc.

Speed – Ability and flexibility to query the data much faster to derive meaningful information and helping with real-time decision analytics

Scalability- Relatively inexpensive regarding scalability when compared with traditional data warehousing. 

Flexibility– Data lakes can grow and scale as we go as the schema is not up front but derive/unfold as we work with the data leading to tackle and deal with more data quickly.

Accessibility– Users of all types around the globe (not limited or restricted only to operational users) can have access to the data by setting them up with a necessary role with required restriction and limitation.

With data lake offering so many benefits, on the other hand, there are risks and issues involved such as lack of data security, lack of privacy, data quality and governance. 

And finally – It’s not just technology– although there are underlying technologies Heudecker says, “Instead, the business value is derived from the data-science skills you can apply to the lake”, he also says “Data lakes aren’t a replacement for existing analytical platforms or infrastructure.  Instead, they complement existing efforts and support the discovery of new questions”.[3]

References:

 [1]  Woods, Dan (21 July 2011). “Big data requires a big architecture”.Tech. Forbes.
[2] Dixon, James. “Pentaho, Hadoop, and Data Lakes”. James Dixon’s Blog. James. Retrieved 7 November 2015. If you think of a data mart as a store of bottled water – cleansed and packaged and structured for easy consumption – the data lake is a large body of water in a more natural state. The contents of the data lake stream in from a source to fill the lake, and various users of the lake can come to examine, dive in, or take samples.
[3] https://www.cio.com/article/2948182/big-data/5-things-cios-need-to-know-about-data-lakes.html
The growing importance of big data quality

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

Strategy Tools

Lavanya Madras Purushothaman

‘Strategy is the means by which we create and take control of the future ‘Lawton et al. (2007).  A strategy is a word that often commonly used in the corporate world. “Strategy” is used in a number of ways for years by business leaders, but yet there is no definitive answer about what strategy really is. Strategy implies changes (such as changes in structure, behaviours etc.) which are complex and time-consuming.

internet business strategy

To implement strategy we need to look at people, resources and capabilities to check if it can happen or not. Strategic decisions are very important and may affect the whole organisation. Organisation uses pictures and diagrams to model by adding and/or removing variable accordingly to simplify the complexity. The key aspects are that it also provides methods for group works and discussions that allow the sharing of knowledge.

SAF-Strategy-Model

Strategy Tools:

Some interesting strategy tools for examining the complexity and help with the production of diagrams are tools such as Mind tool, Impact wheels, Why diagram, influence diagrams and scenarios analysis.

startegy tool

Mind maps help to organise information visually. With other programming tools, mind maps can be used to structure, identify basic ideas as an aid to study and organise information and make decisions. Software packages can extend the concept of mind-mapping by allowing individuals to map more than thoughts and ideas with information on their computers and the Internet, like spreadsheets, documents, Internet sites and images. Santos, Devin (15 February 2013).

Impact wheels is a simple tool designed to help in and decision-making. It is simple but yet powerful tool. It is commonly used by corporate people throughout the world. depict the effects of trends, events or problems either currently or in the future

Why diagrams allow tracing the reasoning for the l. Basically, we state the problem first followed by a series of questions still are left with solutions which would provide a basis for discussion an agreement

Influence diagrams require feedback loops enabling events and their impacts to be linked.

Scenarios analysis basically identifies the very important trends that might affect the future

REFERENCES:
Santos, Devin (15 February 2013).”Top 10 Totally Free Mind Mapping Software Tools”. IMDevin. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
Wilkinson, A. and Kupers, R. (2013) ‘Living in the Futures’
Harvard Business Review, 91, 5, May, pp 118-127
IDEAS

Where good ideas come from?

Lavanya Madras Purushothaman

I always wondered where good ideas come from.  Is it a property of a creative people only, or anyone who are crazy enough to take a risk or see the world differently can come up with a good idea as well!?!?!?….

startup-idea

We all know that good ideas come from smaller hunches.  But turning those hunches into real time ideas are a great pleasure.  So what are your recent hunches you turned into ideas?

I recently came across the video ” WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson “, which I found interesting and wish to share with you.

Hope you are come up with that great idea which is unique and successful.

TIME MANAGEMENT

MY 24 HOURS

Lavanya Madras Purushothaman

Time is more valuable than money! As far we all agree how precious time is, we should also agree on wasting it wisely because we all have just 24 hours in a day.

transitions

As much I understand time management is critical for productivity, it is one of the common things I struggle with.  With just 24 HOURS in a day, but so much more many things to do.

Where do my 24 hours go….?

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They say we at least need 8 hours of sleep in that case we are left out only with 16 HOURS in a day!

Out of 16 hours, you spend around 8 hours at work and addition 3 Hours on travel time leaving you only with 5 HOURS!

Within the 5 hours felt back after a long exhausting day, out of which 3 hours taken off on cooking, cleaning, dinner time, and prepare things for the next day leaving behind just 2 HOURS in my hands!

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Well…. after all the long day, I usually try and take at least 30 mins break to recharge myself so I can use my rest of the time (1.5 Hours) focusing on my MBA studies which demand ruthless focus and dedication.

After which it is already time for bed and time to get a good night sleep to start another brand new day and face exciting challenges.   I guess this would be the usual routine for many people like me around the world.  I always wonder how other people manage their 24 HOURS..!!!  With that question in my mind, I think I will stop writing any further today and hit the bed on time.  Zzzzz…

Will catch you all in my next post