Life Management involves understanding that you are the ultimate manager of your life's direction, by taking control of your life in such a way that you determine your time and ensure that your actions align with your priorities and goals. That calls for awareness of time as a finite resource that cannot be replenished, highlighting the need to set clear, focused goals in life. Furthermore, life management requires one to boldly reject distractions, which might be impediments to effective planning and achieving one's goals or what truly matters.

John F. Kennedy once said, 'Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.'  The relevance of this quote to life management cannot be overstated; The duality of life offers opportunities to both leaders and learners. Your ability to lead yourself, make decisions, and take control of your life is directly tied to your willingness to learn, adapt, and grow. Your life is like your job or business; your ability to take reasonable control of it and navigate the challenges that it brings determines how far you can go in life. Competence and ability to navigate life challenges, coupled with a conscious awareness of unnecessary wastage (human, economic, physical) resources, call for prudence.

Just like a business enterprise and profession, success hardly comes out of a vacuum; professionalism, knowledge, good management, strategic foresight, disciplined execution, and the prudent allocation of resources all enable success to emerge. Life is no different. Much like one can squander the resources of an enterprise through poor management, a poorly managed life can destroy one's financial and human resources, as well as one's legacy. Therefore, the need for survival armour becomes imperative. That calls for prudence in decision-making, discernment in expenditure of effort, and vigilance against waste, which are consequently not optional virtues but prerequisites for survival and flourishing alike.

Remember that time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils. As darkly humorous as that might sound, it reminds us of the brevity of life and how vulnerable we are, as mortals, to the passage of time. Hence, we must learn the importance of making good use of our time, so that our life experiences will enable us to live our lives to the fullest, having in mind the brevity of life and the limitedness of time on earth. Whether we can live our lives to the fullest is determined by our ability to prepare for them.

Ultimately, life management is about readiness. Preparation is the fundamental magic key that unlocks potential into achievement, desire into direction, and transient experiences and ephemeral instants into lasting legacies. Preparation failure is never a mere oversight; rather, it is a deliberate act of preparation for failure. Life presents us with time, choices, opportunities, and challenges; the way we manage them influences the results and the types of legacies we leave behind. The reality of life is such that in the economy of life, the unprepared merely survive, but the prepared truly live. If we fail to prepare, we prepare to fail.

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