So why are our lessons still so painful? My still, small voice explains that pain, suffering and loss are in no way part of natural order. Rather, our resistance to love flowing through all things creates an energetic snarl of pain and loss.

Today, tsunami is teaching us how to release our resistance. As we open our hearts and minds to victims of this disaster, our empathy moves us into quantum field of love, where we become one humanity.

This is path of oneness taken by all great mystics and why Hindu swami Muktananda said, "Earth, moon, stars and sun revolve inside me." Rumi, Sufi poet of Islam, urged us to immerse ourselves in glittering cosmic sea of spirit until our toes begin to say Allah.

The Hebrew prophet Elijah found oneness and divine guidance in still, small voice within and so did Christian prophet Jesus. In "The Life of St. Issa," an ancient manuscript translated by a traveler in a Tibetan monastery in 1880s, Jesus points us to voice of heart and God’s infinite healing and peace.

The universal laws of love will protect us if we live in harmony with our planet and keep our eyes on big picture: a wheel inside a wheel turning us inward to an enlightened new age where we are one people, one mind, one soul dispelling its demons and coming to know Itself.

Judith Pennington is a writer, singer and coast-to-coast teacher of meditation and evolution of human consciousness. She is author of a ground-breaking book, The Voice of Soul, about her extraordinary journey into inspired writing, guiding wisdom of soul and science of spirituality. Visit her primary website, www.eaglelife.com, to check for a workshop near you, sign up for her free e-newsletter, "The Still, Small Voice," and read complementary articles in her paid-for e-magazine, OneWorld Spirit, devoted to art, beauty, truth, spiritual politics and global peace.

Improve Your Attention Span

While your brain and its functions can be improved by improving your diet (fish and vitamins, along with a steady sugar level are absolute basics for feeding your brain), often case is that you are allowing yourself to be interrupted which is causing distraction (even if it appears to be in job description that you must down tools when boss calls). You can still put systems into place to ensure that you don't get distracted - and get a block of time available to focus your attention in. Even a response to person at door of "just a second, let me just finish this bit off" can mean that you don't waste first five minutes after a distraction trying to remember where you were.

Choose right system for you

Look at list above and decide what your main tasks are which match what each system is best suited for. Then implement a combination of them. Often all you need to do is integrate your priority list with a scheduled list (by using a diary with a loose piece of paper as your priority list of unscheduled items - just remember to allow time in your schedule to complete unscheduled items).

Many people swear by Stephen Covey time management system that is similar in layout to a diary layout but adds space for unscheduled items as well as things that aren't too specific (such as spend time with your children/work on novel etc). You can find it in his book First Things First. You can even buy fillers for your filofax based on that layout, so that you have it all to hand whenever you need it.

Give it some time

Learning and implementing a new time management system is like learning a new habit - and just as difficult as it is something extra to remember. It can take up to 12 weeks to be sure that new habit is learned, at which point it will be second nature to use your system. If it doesn't work for you, just modify it a bit and try again - it can be something as simple as buying a larger diary so that you can use just one item to record your tasks, meetings etc.

Distraction Management

Locate your regular distractions and set up a plan to minimise them (I deliberately didn't say remove them - that would be rather difficult, unless you moved to North Pole). This can be through implementing a system where you are not available to be distracted at work for a set amount of time, on premise that you will get back to them with an actual answer to their problem moment you are able to. While this may not be too popular with some of your co-workers (because you are not available at drop of a hat), fact that if you are able to be more productive during normal working hours, you will actually be able to leave work on time a bit more often. Make sure though that when you do get back to people after a no-distraction period, that you answer their question/query fully and swiftly.

Time management is not difficult; it is various things that are fundamental to them being able to work that are complicated parts. So long as you are able (both physically and mentally) to focus your attention you should find that time can be managed better. Remember though that there is no one-size fits all in world of time management systems - you will need to try out one or two before you find perfect one that works for you. Just make sure you choose ones that are suitable for tasks that are part of your daily life