I was hearing a conversation in court of then Supreme Court Judge Justice Rajendra Babu when he was presiding as Judge in Court 2 in Supreme Court. later, he retired as Chief Justice of India.
A Senior advocate mentioned about Judge's habit of reading a lot of books and wondered how it could have been affected after his elevation as Judge.
Judge said,"It does not affect much except that after you become a judge, life becomes more structured. The activities began to fall in pre-structured time slots."
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I have heard about many lawyers and other persons who live in structured way of life. Every routine of their life is allocated a fixed time slots and schedules.
I have found that this requires a lot of discipline to live as per pre decided schedules.
A lawyer's life is full of uncertain events. It requires a great effort to fix time slots and to live as per time slots.
But before a person can start moulding himself into a structured life, he must have a burning desire to develop time management skills. He must be clear on why he wants this skill and what are the enormous benefits he is going to reap out of his time management skills.
In life of Supreme Court lawyers, Sundays are very hectic. Counsels are to be briefed for Monday admission matters. Most counsels keep Saturday off and give appointment on Sunday afternoon.
To live a well structured life is a challenge for lawyers.
Haresh Raichura
9/11/13
