A budget is a way of apportioning resources and linking them to objectives in such a way that optimum results are obtained. You can budget your time for the year, month, week, day and the next few hours. When you budget your time, you first decide your priorities and how much time is required for each activity. Then, while implementing your time-budget you keep making a Variance-analysis, i.e. you see whether you were able to do the work in more time or less time or in the exact slot of time set aside for it. What were the reasons for taking more time? Could they be avoided in future? What was it that helped to finish faster? Can these factors be used to finish all activities faster in future?

Periodic meditation, for instance, can speed up work involving the mind, such as reading, preparing lessons for the exams or writing an article. Meditation can be used to create a type of relaxed self-hypnosis by which mind works faster and better.