How to gain control of your free time | Laura Vanderkam | TED

Translator: Leslie Gauthier Reviewer: Camille Martínez

Translator: Heli Paudel Reviewer: Deepak Basyal

When people find out I write about time management,

म टाइम म्यानेजमेन्टको बारेमा लेख्छु भन्ने थाहा पाएपछि

they assume two things.

मानिसहरु २ कुराको अनुमान गर्छन्:

One is that I'm always on time,

पहिलो: म सधै समयमै पुग्छु,

and I'm not.

बास्तवमा त्यस्तो छैन

I have four small children,

मेरा ४ जना साना बच्चाहरु छन्

and I would like to blame them for my occasional tardiness,

कहिलेकाही हुने ढिलाको दोष, म उनीहरु माथि थुपार्छु ,

but sometimes it's just not their fault.

तर कहिले कहीं उनीहरुको मात्र गल्ति हुदैन

I was once late to my own speech on time management.

एकपटक म टाइम म्यानेजमेन्टको आफ्नै प्रवचन दिन ढिला पुगें

........(हाँसो)......

(Laughter)

We all had to just take a moment together and savor that irony.

हामीले संगै बसेर त्यो विडम्बनाको सामना गरेका थियौं

The second thing they assume is that I have lots of tips and tricks

दोस्रो कुरा, उनीहरु सोच्छन्: म संग यता र उता गरेर

for saving bits of time here and there.

समय निकाल्न सक्ने चुट्की, तरिकाहरु छन्

कहिलेकाहीं पत्रिकाहरुमा सुन्छु, उनीहरु आफ्नो पाठकहरुलाइ

Sometimes I'll hear from magazines that are doing a story along these lines,

generally on how to help their readers find an extra hour in the day.

एक घण्टा जगेडा समय कसरी निकाल्न मद्धत गर्ने भनेर अध्ययन गर्दछन्

And the idea is that we'll shave bits of time off everyday activities,

उपाय भनेको आफ्ना सबै कामहरुबाट अलि अलि

add it up,

निकाल्ने र जोड्ने,

and we'll have time for the good stuff.

त्यसरी हामी अरु कामको लागि समय निकाल्न सक्छौं

I question the entire premise of this piece, but I'm always interested

यस बिषयमा म सबैलाई प्रश्न गर्ने गर्छु, तर म संग कुरा गर्नु अगाडिको

in hearing what they've come up with before they call me.

उनीहरुको कुरा सुन्न मलाई खुबै रमाइलो लाग्छ

Some of my favorites:

मलाई मनपर्ने केहि:

doing errands where you only have to make right-hand turns --

छोटो यात्रा जहाँ दायाँ मात्रै मोडे पुग्छ

(Laughter)

.........(हाँसो).....

Being extremely judicious in microwave usage:

माइक्रो वेभ प्रयोग गर्दा अत्ति विचार गर्ने

यसको खोलमा ३ देखि ३.५ मिनेट भन्छ

it says three to three-and-a-half minutes on the package,

we're totally getting in on the bottom side of that.

हामी ठ्याक्कै त्यसै गर्छौं

And my personal favorite, which makes sense on some level,

व्यक्तिगतरुपमा मलाई मन पर्ने: यसले कुनै अर्थ पनि राख्छ

is to DVR your favorite shows so you can fast-forward through the commercials.

मनपर्ने टिवी शो रेकोर्ड गर्ने र बिज्ञापन स्किप गर्दै हेर्ने

That way, you save eight minutes every half hour,

यसो गर्दा प्रत्येक ३० मिनेटमा ८ मिनेट बच्छ

जसले २ घन्टाको टिवी हेर्ने क्रममा

so in the course of two hours of watching TV,

you find 32 minutes to exercise.

कसरत गर्न ३२ मिनेट बच्छ

(Laughter)

.........(हाँसो).....

Which is true.

हुन त हो

You know another way to find 32 minutes to exercise?

कसरत गर्न ३२ मिनेट बचाउने अर्को तरिका तपाईंलाइ थाहा छ ?

Don't watch two hours of TV a day, right?

टिवि हेर्न दैनिक २ घण्टा खर्च नगर्ने, कि कसो ?

(Laughter)

.........(हाँसो).....

कुरा त्यहि हो कि, यता उति गरेर, तान तुन थप थाप पारेर

Anyway, the idea is we'll save bits of time here and there, add it up,

we will finally get to everything we want to do.

हामी आफुलाई मनपरेको काम गर्छौं

But after studying how successful people spend their time

तर सफल व्यक्तिहरु कसरी समय बिताउछन् भन्ने अध्ययन गरेर

and looking at their schedules hour by hour,

तथा उनीहरुको प्रत्यक घन्टाको कार्यतालिका हेरे पश्चात

I think this idea has it completely backward.

अघिका विचारहरु एकदमै पुरातनवादी लागे

We don't build the lives we want by saving time.

हामी समय बचाएको भरमा हामीले चाहेको जीवन प्राप्त गर्न सक्दैनौ

We build the lives we want,

हामीले चाहेको जस्तो जीवन बाच्ने

and then time saves itself.

गर्दा समय आफै बच्दछ

Here's what I mean.

भन्नुको मतलब

I recently did a time diary project

मैंले भर्खरै १००१ अति ब्यस्त

महिलाहरुको समय तालिकाको अध्ययन गरें

looking at 1,001 days in the lives of extremely busy women.

They had demanding jobs, sometimes their own businesses,

उनीहरुको राम्रो काम छ, कतिको आफ्नै व्यापार व्यवसाय छ,

kids to care for, maybe parents to care for,

हेरचाह गर्नुपर्ने केटा केटि वा बाउ आमा छन्

समुदाय प्रतिको प्रतिबद्धता-

community commitments --

busy, busy people.

व्यस्त, अति ब्यस्त मान्छे /

I had them keep track of their time for a week

एक हप्तासम्म उनीहरुको क्रियाक्रलाप अवलोकन गरें

र उनीहरु कति घण्टा काम गरे, कति सुते विचार गरें

so I could add up how much they worked and slept,

and I interviewed them about their strategies, for my book.

र आफ्नो किताबको लागि उनीहरुको रणनीति बारे प्रश्न गरें

One of the women whose time log I studied

मैंले समय तालिका हेर्दै गरेको एक महिला

goes out on a Wednesday night for something.

कुनै बुधबार राती कहीं जान्छिन्

She comes home to find that her water heater has broken,

फर्केर घर आउंदा, उनको भान्छाको धारो बिग्रिएको रहेछ,

and there is now water all over her basement.

जता ततै पानी नै पानी जमेको रहेछ

If you've ever had anything like this happen to you,

तपाईंलाइ पनि कहिले यस्तो घटना घटेको भए

you know it is a hugely damaging, frightening, sopping mess.

थाहा छ नी: कति भद्रगोल, भिजेको, बिग्रेको गन्हाउने हुन्छ

So she's dealing with the immediate aftermath that night,

तुरुन्तै उनी त्यो परिस्थिति संग भिड्न थालिन्

next day she's got plumbers coming in,

दोस्रो दिन, प्लम्बर आयो

day after that, professional cleaning crew dealing with the ruined carpet.

कोठाको भिजेको कार्पेटहरु तथा अन्य समान सुकाउन मद्धत खोजिन्

All this is being recorded on her time log.

यो सबै कार्य उनले समय तालिकामा लेखेकी थिइन्

त्यो हप्ताको ७ घण्टा सरसफाईमा लाग्यो

Winds up taking seven hours of her week.

Seven hours.

पुरै ७ घण्टा

भन्नाले झन्डै दिनको १ घण्टा

That's like finding an extra hour in the day.

But I'm sure if you had asked her at the start of the week,

यदि उनलाई हप्ताको पहिलो दिन

"Could you find seven hours to train for a triathlon?"

खेलकुदको लागि ७ घण्टा फुर्सद निकाल्न सक्नुहुन्छ?

"Could you find seven hours to mentor seven worthy people?"

वा केहि महत्वपूर्ण मान्छे लाइ भेट्न ७ घण्टा फुर्सद छ?

I'm sure she would've said what most of us would've said,

भन्ने प्रश्न गरेको भए पक्कै पनि उनले

which is, "No -- can't you see how busy I am?"

"भ्याउंदिन, साह्रै व्यस्त छु" भन्थिन्

Yet when she had to find seven hours

तर, जसरी पनि ७ घण्टा

because there is water all over her basement,

नभई नहुने अवस्था पर्दा त्यो ७ घण्टा

उनले निकाल्न सकिन्

she found seven hours.

यसले के प्रमाणित गर्छ भने, समय तन्किन्छ

And what this shows us is that time is highly elastic.

We cannot make more time,

हामी समय बढाउन सक्दैनौ,

but time will stretch to accommodate what we choose to put into it.

तर आवश्यकता पर्दा मिलाउन सक्छौं

And so the key to time management

यसर्थ, टाइम म्यानेजमेन्टको महत्वपूर्ण कडी

is treating our priorities

हाम्रो आवश्यकताको प्राथमिकता हो,

as the equivalent of that broken water heater.

बिग्रिएको धारो जस्तै

यसलाई अझ जोड दिन,

To get at this,

I like to use language from one of the busiest people I ever interviewed.

मैंले अहिले सम्म भेटेको अति व्यस्त एक जनाको भनाइ राख्छु

By busy, I mean she was running a small business

व्यस्त भन्नाले, उनको सानो व्यापार थियो ,

१२ जना कर्मचारी थिए

with 12 people on the payroll,

she had six children in her spare time.

अझ व्यस्त बनाउने ६ जना केटाकेटी थिए

I was getting in touch with her to set up an interview

म उनीसंग एउटा अन्तर्वार्ताको लागि समय खोज्दै थिएँ

on how she "had it all" -- that phrase.

उनको व्यस्तताको सिमा थिएन

I remember it was a Thursday morning,

बिहिबार बिहानको कुरा हो,

and she was not available to speak with me.

उनीसंग बोल्ने पनि फुर्सद थिएन

Of course, right?

अत्ति नै ब्यस्त

But the reason she was unavailable to speak with me

तर म संग बोल्ने समय नहुने कारण थियो

is that she was out for a hike,

उनी पदयात्रामा जादै थिइन् ,

because it was a beautiful spring morning,

सरद महिनाको शुन्दर बिहानी थियो

and she wanted to go for a hike.

घुम्न जाने राम्रो दिन थियो

So of course this makes me even more intrigued,

यो कुराले उनलाई भेट्ने इच्छा अझ तिब्र भयो

and when I finally do catch up with her, she explains it like this.

जब उनलाई भेटे मौका मिल्यो, उनले यस्तो कुरा गरिन्-

She says, "Listen Laura, everything I do,

उनले भनिन "हेर लाउरा, म जे पनि गर्छु,

every minute I spend, is my choice."

आफ्नै रोजाइमा प्रत्येक मिनेट खर्च गर्छु"

And rather than say,

यसको अर्थ के हो भने,

एक्स वाई जेड काम गर्न मलाई फुर्सद छैन

"I don't have time to do x, y or z,"

she'd say, "I don't do x, y or z because it's not a priority."

किन कि, त्यो काम मेरो प्राथमिकतामा पर्दैन

"I don't have time," often means "It's not a priority."

"फुर्सद छैन" भन्नुको अर्थ "त्यो मेरो प्राथमिकता होइन" भन्नु हो

भाषागत हिसाबले त्यो भनाइ एकदमै व्यवहारिक हो

If you think about it, that's really more accurate language.

I could tell you I don't have time to dust my blinds,

मैले "पर्दा सफा गर्ने फुर्सद छैन" भन्छु भने

but that's not true.

त्यो सत्य होइन

If you offered to pay me $100,000 to dust my blinds,

कसैले पर्दा सफा गर्न मलाई एक लाख दिन्छु भन्यो भने

I would get to it pretty quickly.

म सबै भन्दा पहिले त्यहि गर्छु

(Laughter)

.........(हाँसो).....

Since that is not going to happen,

त्यसो हुनेवाला त छैन,

I can acknowledge this is not a matter of lacking time;

त्यसैले यो समयको अभावको कुरा होइन

it's that I don't want to do it.

खासमा मलाई गर्न मन नलागेको हो

Using this language reminds us that time is a choice.

यसले हाम्रो रोजाईको कुरा देखाउंछ

And granted,

भिन्न परिस्थितिमा,

there may be horrible consequences for making different choices,

फरक रोजाईका डरलाग्दा घटनाक्रम होलान्

I will give you that.

त्यसो हुन सक्छ

But we are smart people,

तर हामी बुद्धिमान मानिस हौं

and certainly over the long run,

समय संगै बिस्तारै

we have the power to fill our lives

आफ्नो जीवनमा आवश्यक पर्ने कुराको

with the things that deserve to be there.

व्यवस्थापन गर्ने सामर्थ्य हुन्छ

So how do we do that?

कसरी त्यस्तो हुन्छ त भन्दा

धारो बिग्रिएको अवस्था जस्तै

How do we treat our priorities

as the equivalent of that broken water heater?

हामीले प्राथमिकता दिने बिषयमा भर पर्छ

Well, first we need to figure out what they are.

सबै भन्दा पहिले आवश्यकताको निर्धारण गर्नु पर्छ

I want to give you two strategies for thinking about this.

यस बिषयमा सोच्न म तपाईंलाइ २ रणनीति दिन्छु

The first, on the professional side:

पहिलो: पेशागत क्षेत्र

I'm sure many people coming up to the end of the year

बर्षको अन्त्य तिर मानिसहरु

are giving or getting annual performance reviews.

आफ्नो बार्षिक प्रगतिको लेखा जोखा गर्छन्

You look back over your successes over the year,

तपाईं गत बर्षमा पाएको सफलता हेर्नु हुन्छ

your "opportunities for growth."

आफ्नो "उन्नतिको सम्भावना" खोज्नुहुन्छ

And this serves its purpose,

यसको अर्थ तथा उद्धेश्य त्यहि नै हो,

but I find it's more effective to do this looking forward.

तर मलाई पछाडी फेर्कर हेर्नुभन्दा अगाडी हेर्नु राम्रो लाग्छ

अहिले अर्को बर्षको अन्त्य हो भन्ने सम्झनुहोस

So I want you to pretend it's the end of next year.

You're giving yourself a performance review,

तपाई आफ्नो प्रगति विवरण हेर्दै हुनुहुन्छ

and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you professionally.

तपाईंको व्यक्तित्वको हिसाबले यो बर्ष अत्यन्त लाभदायक छ

३-५ कुनै त्यस्ता काम भन्नुहोस जसले तपाईंको यो बर्षलाइ सफल बनायो

What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing?

So you can write next year's performance review now.

तपाई अर्को बर्षको प्रगति विवरण यसरी अहिले लेख्न सक्नुहुन्छ

And you can do this for your personal life, too.

यस्तै कुरा आफ्नो व्यक्तिगत जीवनको पनि सकिन्छ

I'm sure many of you, like me, come December,

म जस्तै तपाईंहरु पनि कति जनाले बर्षको अन्त्यमा

get cards that contain these folded up sheets of colored paper,

यसैगरी पट्टाएको रंगीन कागज पाउनुहुन्छ

on which is written what is known as the family holiday letter.

जसलाई पारिवारिक छुट्टीको कागज भनिन्छ

(Laughter)

.........(हाँसो).....

आश्चर्य भनौ कि बिडम्बना,

Bit of a wretched genre of literature, really,

going on about how amazing everyone in the household is,

कति व्यस्त छन् त परिवारका सदस्यहरु

or even more scintillating,

जहाँ परिवारका सदस्यहरु,

how busy everyone in the household is.

संगै बस्ने, घुम्ने पनि समय छैन

But these letters serve a purpose,

त्यसैले यो पत्रको अर्थ छ ,

which is that they tell your friends and family

जसले तपाईको परिवार तथा साथीभाईलाइ भन्छ

what you did in your personal life that mattered to you over the year.

तपाइले व्यक्तिगत जीवनमा जे गर्नुभयो, त्यो गएको समयको कुरा भो

यसर्थ यस बर्षको काम गराई

So this year's kind of done,

but I want you to pretend it's the end of next year,

जुन आउदो बर्षको हो भनेर कल्पना गर्दै हुनुहुन्छ

and it has been an absolutely amazing year

तपाई र तपाईले चाहनुभएको मान्छेको लागि

अत्यन्त लाभदायक हुन्छ

for you and the people you care about.

What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing?

त्यसैले ३ देखि ५ वोटा ती महत्वपूर्ण कामहरु के हुन्?

So you can write next year's family holiday letter now.

अर्को बर्षको बिदाको चिट्ठी अहिले नै लेख्न सक्नुहुन्छ

Don't send it.

तर पठाई नै चै नहाल्नुस

.........(हाँसो).....

(Laughter)

हो भन्या, नपठाउनुस

Please, don't send it.

तर पक्कै लेख्न सक्नुहुन्छ

But you can write it.

And now, between the performance review and the family holiday letter,

पारिवारिक छुट्टी र बार्षिक मुल्यांकनको बीचमा

we have a list of six to ten goals we can work on in the next year.

आगामी बर्षमा सम्पन्न गर्न सकिने ६-१० लक्ष्यहरु निर्धारण गर्न सकिन्छ

And now we need to break these down into doable steps.

सम्पन्न गर्न सकिनेको आधारमा यीनलाइ बर्गिकरण गर्न सकिन्छ

So maybe you want to write a family history.

हुन सक्छ तपाई पारीवारक इतिहास लेख्न सक्नुहुन्छ

First, you can read some other family histories,

पहिला तपाईं अरुले लेखेको ईतिहास पढ्न सक्नुहुन्छ

get a sense for the style.

लेख्ने तरिका बुझ्न

त्यसपछि, आफ्नो नातेदारहरुलाई सोध्ने प्रश्नहरुको सुची तयार पारेर

Then maybe think about the questions you want to ask your relatives,

set up appointments to interview them.

अन्तर्वार्ताको समय मिलाउनुहुनेछ

Or maybe you want to run a 5K.

वा चन्दा संकलनको योजना

So you need to find a race and sign up, figure out a training plan,

गरेर चन्दा संकलनको तरिका र नियम

and dig those shoes out of the back of the closet.

सिकेर त्यसैमा लाग्न सक्नुहुन्छ

And then -- this is key --

यस्तो कार्य गर्दा,

we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater,

धारो भाँचिएको अवस्था जस्तै

by putting them into our schedules first.

प्राथमिकता निर्धारण गर्नुहुनेछ

We do this by thinking through our weeks before we are in them.

काम सुरुगर्ने एक हप्ता अगाडिनै हामी यस बिषयमा सोच्छौं

I find a really good time to do this is Friday afternoons.

यो काममा हातहाल्न मलाई शुक्रबार दिउसो ठिक लाग्छ

Friday afternoon is what an economist might call

अर्थशास्त्रीहरु यो समयलाइ "न्यून मुल्यको सम्भावना"

a "low opportunity cost" time.

को समय भन्छन्

Most of us are not sitting there on Friday afternoons saying,

शुक्रबार दिउसो हामी कोहि पनि

"I am excited to make progress

"म मेरो व्यक्तिगत र ब्यवसायिक

toward my personal and professional priorities

प्राथमिकता निर्धारण गर्ने ठिक समय हो"

right now."

भन्ने सोचाईमा हुन्नौ

.........(हाँसो).....

(Laughter)

के गर्दा ठिक होला भन्ने बिषयमा भने सोच्दै हुन्छौं

But we are willing to think about what those should be.

So take a little bit of time Friday afternoon,

त्यसैले, शुक्रबार दिउसो केहि समय निकाल्नुस र आफ्नै

make yourself a three-category priority list: career, relationships, self.

३ प्राथमिकताको सुची बनाउनुहोस: कार्य, सम्बन्ध, र व्यक्तिगत

Making a three-category list reminds us

यस्तो ३ प्रकारको सुची बनाउँदा

that there should be something in all three categories.

हरेक क्षेत्रमा केहि छ भन्ने सम्झना हुन्छ

कार्यक्षेत्र: हामी सोच्छौं

Career, we think about;

relationships, self --

सम्बन्ध र व्यक्तिगत कुरा

not so much.

त्यति सोच्दैनौ

But anyway, just a short list,

जे भएपनि एउटा छोटो सूची

two to three items in each.

जसमा २-३ काम मात्रै होस्

अर्को हप्ताको काम हेरेर कहाँ

Then look out over the whole of the next week,

and see where you can plan them in.

अटाउन सकिन्छ, हेर्नुहोस

कहाँ अटाउने, तपाईंकै विचार

Where you plan them in is up to you.

I know this is going to be more complicated for some people than others.

कोहि मान्छेको लागि अरुको तुलनामा यो निकै कठिन काम हुनेछ

I mean, some people's lives are just harder than others.

भन्नाले, कसैको काम अर्काको भन्दा निकै कठिन हुन सक्छ

It is not going to be easy to find time to take that poetry class

यदि तपाईंको धेरै बच्चाछन् भने, कामलाई

if you are caring for multiple children on your own.

प्राथमिकता निर्धारण गर्न कठिन हुन्छ

त्यो त म पनि बुझ्छु

I get that.

And I don't want to minimize anyone's struggle.

म कसैको संघर्षलाइ कम आंकलन गर्न चाहन्न

But I do think that the numbers I am about to tell you are empowering.

तर मैंले भन्न गैरहेको एउटा नम्बरले तपाईंलाइ उत्साहित गराउनेछ

There are 168 hours in a week.

हप्तामा १६८ घण्टा हुन्छन्

Twenty-four times seven is 168 hours.

२४X७ = १६८ घण्टा

That is a lot of time.

यो प्रसस्त समय हो

If you are working a full-time job, so 40 hours a week,

हप्तामा लगभग ४० घण्टा काम गर्नुहुन्छ

sleeping eight hours a night, so 56 hours a week --

दिनको ८ घन्टाको दरले ५६ घण्टा सुताई

that leaves 72 hours for other things.

त्यति गर्दा अरुकामको लागि ७२ घण्टा बाकी हुन्छ

That is a lot of time.

त्यो भनेको प्रसस्त समय हो

You say you're working 50 hours a week,

मानौ, हप्तामा ५० घण्टा काम गर्नुहुन्छ

maybe a main job and a side hustle.

मुख्य काम संगै अरु केहि काम

Well, that leaves 62 hours for other things.

तैपनि अरुकामको लागि ६२ घण्टा बाकी हुन्छ

You say you're working 60 hours.

६० घण्टा काम गर्छु भने पनि

Well, that leaves 52 hours for other things.

अरुकामको लागि ५२ घण्टा बाकी नै हुन्छ

You say you're working more than 60 hours.

हप्तामा ६० घण्टा भन्दा बढी भन्नुहुन्छ भने

Well, are you sure?

पत्याउनु ?

(Laughter)

.........(हाँसो).....

एकपटक मानिसको कार्यतालिकाको

There was once a study comparing people's estimated work weeks

अध्ययन गरिएको थियो

with time diaries.

They found that people claiming 75-plus-hour work weeks

७५ घण्टाभन्दा बढी काम गर्छु भन्नेहरु,

२५ घण्टा अघि नै हिडिसकेका थिए

were off by about 25 hours.

(Laughter)

.........(हाँसो).....

कता लागे, त्यो प्रश्न भो

You can guess in which direction, right?

Anyway, in 168 hours a week,

जे भने पनि हप्ताको १६८ घण्टा

I think we can find time for what matters to you.

आवश्यक पर्ने समय जसरीपनि निकाल्न सकिन्छ

If you want to spend more time with your kids,

केटा केटि संग बढी समय बिताउन चाहनुहुन्छ

कुनै परिक्षाको तयारी गर्न चाहनुहुन्छ ,

you want to study more for a test you're taking,

you want to exercise for three hours and volunteer for two,

३ घण्टा एक्सरसाइज र २ श्रमदान गर्न चाहनुहुन्छ

you can.

सब सम्भव छ

And that's even if you're working way more than full-time hours.

अहिले नै पनि धेरै समय काम गर्दै भएपनि

So we have plenty of time, which is great,

हामी संग प्रसस्त समय छ, गज्ज़ब कुरा

because guess what?

अर्को कुरा के, थाहा छ?

We don't even need that much time to do amazing things.

रमाइलो काम गर्न हामीलाई त्यति समय पनि चाहिन्न

But when most of us have bits of time, what do we do?

फुर्सद भयो कि हामी के गर्छौं ?

Pull out the phone, right?

फोन गर्ने

Start deleting emails.

पुरानो इमेल मेट्ने

Otherwise, we're puttering around the house

अथवा घरको झिनामसिना काम गर्ने

or watching TV.

वा टि भी हेर्ने

छोटो समय पनि महत्वपूर्ण हुनसक्छ

But small moments can have great power.

You can use your bits of time

केहि खुशीको लागि

केहि समय दिन सक्नुहुन्छ

for bits of joy.

Maybe it's choosing to read something wonderful on the bus

हुन सक्छ, काममा जादा आउदा कुनै रमाइलो

किताब पढ्न सक्नुहुन्छ

on the way to work.

I know when I had a job that required two bus rides

एकताका मलाई काममा जान

and a subway ride every morning,

२ घण्टा बस चढ्नु पर्थ्यो

I used to go to the library on weekends to get stuff to read.

सप्ताहन्तमा म लाइब्रेरी गएर किताब लेराऊथें

It made the whole experience almost, almost, enjoyable.

जसले गर्दा बस यात्रा सहजै कटथ्यो

Breaks at work can be used for meditating or praying.

ब्रेकको समयमा ध्यान वा प्रार्थना गर्न सकिन्छ

If family dinner is out because of your crazy work schedule,

कामको व्यस्तताले साँझको खाना बाहिरै खाने गर्नुहुन्छ भने

maybe family breakfast could be a good substitute.

बिहानको खाना परिवारसंगै बसेर खान सकिन्छ

It's about looking at the whole of one's time

यो भनेको आफुसंग भएको समयलाई सहि तरिकाले

व्यवस्थापन गर्ने कला हो

and seeing where the good stuff can go.

I truly believe this.

यो कुरामा म बिश्वस्त छु

समय निकाल्न सकिन्छ

There is time.

Even if we are busy,

जस्तै व्यस्त भएपनि

we have time for what matters.

समय मिलाउन सकिन्छ

And when we focus on what matters,

अत्यावश्यक बिषयमा ध्यान पुर्याएर, भएको

we can build the lives we want

समयको सदुपयोग गर्दै हामी चाहेजस्तो

in the time we've got.

जीवन बनाउन सक्छौं

Thank you.

.........धन्यवाद.....

(Applause)

.........ताली.....