Minimizing the formation of energy holes is an important research issues to be dealt in Wireless Sensor Networks. The contributions of the paper are two-fold. First we have proposed a novel energy efficient clustering algorithm along with a novel cluster head selection process which reduces the formation of energy holes in the network thus increasing the lifetime of wireless sensor network. Another significant contribution is that we have optimized the sojourn time of the cluster head based on the residual energy of the one hop sensors. We argue that our proposed work is efficient in dealing with various design and implementation issues of clustering procedures subsist in the existing works. The efficiency analysis is studied and presented. Also the time efficiency analysis of the proposed clustering algorithm is calculated. Simulation experiments showcase a noteworthy improvement in network lifetime in comparison with the existing algorithms.