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Such available resources are to be fished out by an active application of your imagination or guesswork. It is
the process of exploration. Your power of observation and ability to catch clues will aid you maximum in
finding out resources by this process.
By Improvisation. Many a time your requirements cannot be met by merely
observation, exploration or guesswork. You might require a specific object or a rarely
used object, which is not available in normal course. To take an example, there may
be a need of stretcher to rescue some injured persons. In such a situation, you have to
improvise the thing. Improvisation is the outcome of your creativity, which again is
the result of your imagination. A non-conventional object is to be improvised.

Time—One of the most important but least understood resources is time. Sadly time cannot be
manipulated. One can only learn how to utilise it in the best way. You can achieve it by increasing your
speed, increasing your physical and mental stamina, cutting your rest hours, being more methodical and
orderly and by adopting a lateral instead of linear approach in time management. In lateral approach
of time management you learn to handle many things at a time. You may learn music, yoga and do a
part time job while studying in a college. It is very much possible. In the linear approach one does
things one by one. This approach is slow and less productive because unless one thing in hand is
finished one cannot undertake another job. Remember, time travels only in one direction with its own
unstoppable force. But it is available to everyone in equal measures. God has been totally impartial in
distributing time to human kind. You can take a leaf from the life of any of the successful persons. They
have utilised time in the most productive and astute way.
Money—Undoubtedly, money is very important and a highly efficacious resource. Though money
cannot do anything per se, but it can be converted into many resource; at least those which could be
purchased. Money could be earned, borrowed or lent. In emergency it could be obtained by selling an
article or providing a service.
Planning and Organisation—Planning and organisation refer to the scheme of arrangement of
resources according to a strategy. Orderliness and parsimony are the two essential characteristics of
planning and organisation. Orderliness shows your skill to manoeuvre and maintain your tools in proper
place. You must have observed that some people keep their things in proper place and in a neat and tidy
fashion while some people remain careless, scatter, much around and do not maintain their
tools/equipment. The principle of parsimony refers to being least wasteful. Resources are scare, they are
to be utilised thriftly. Don’t deploy two where one is sufficient.
Let me assure you that planning and organisation cannot be ‘declared’ for a psychologist. I have
observed many candidates write ‘then he made a plan’ may be as suggested by some SSB guidebooks.
Plan is not to be proclaimed this way. The psychologist will make inference about your planning skills
according to the layout of the stories. Both the contents and the cover of your stories provide ample
evidence of your planning and organisational abilities. Even your handwriting is a great indication of
your ‘neat’ or ‘haphazard’ way of dealing with the resources. Cuttings, overwriting, correction,
repetition of words or sentences, variation or consistency in the style and size of letters ‘fonts’ in
computer language give adequate input about your planning and organising ability.
Conclusion—Your stories must and plausibly be written in relation to the task undertaken by the
hero. The psychologist generally scrutinises the conclusion of your stories in the following terms :—

Whether the hero was able to achieve the task or not.
Whether the task was achieved totally or partially.
● Whether the story answers ‘how the task was achieved’. The task has to be achieved by some
planning, organisation and gradual efforts but not due to sheer wishful thinking. Remember you
have to give details and not to end the story abruptly.