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title: "Foundations of Time Management"
artifact: "highlights"
resource_person: "Prof. Rupashree Baral"
resource_person_role: "Professor of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras."
vertical: "careers"
module: "Time and Resource Management"
lesson: "Foundations of Time Management"
lesson_key: "foundations-of-time-management"
source: "GuruSetu original"
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# Foundations of Time Management: Highlights

**Resource person:** Prof. Rupashree Baral - Professor of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras.

1. Dr. Indu Iyer’s day shows teaching, research, service, caregiving, deadlines and recovery competing at once.
2. Ask what can be delegated, what the institution can support and which boundary is reasonable.
3. List current work and family priorities, then connect them to goals, needs and personal values.
4. Unexpected demands, poorly defined goals, FOMO and constant firefighting make prioritisation harder.
5. The same minute can feel different depending on pressure, context and attention.
6. The ₹86,400 exercise stands for the 86,400 seconds whose balance expires at day’s end.
7. Allocate the fixed daily hours according to current priorities.
8. Build a better habit through a recognised need, belief in change, one small plan and reinforcement.