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“Time is not measured in minutes nor seconds. It’s measured in the things you do with it.”
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In other words, you can have all the minutes and seconds you want, but if you don’t use it to accomplish something, you might as well not have it to begin with.
We go through our days with numerous tasks that require our attention. And we usually deal with them by allocating chunks of time from whatever amount of time we assume we will have in that particular day. I say assume because realistically, you can only guess how many hours you will have to attack these tasks. There is a possibility that you might get into a car accident and you will spend the rest of the day in the hospital. So, we always tell ourselves that we’ll have 15 minutes for this meeting, 30 minutes to write that report, 1 hour for the lunch appointment so on and so forth. We are very good at managing time this way- by allocating tasks to a specific duration of time. This time-for-tasks allocation is a quantitative approach to manage your priorities.
I believe there’s a better way around that. Of course, it would require some un-learning on what we’ve been taught. We may not need to check all that task in the to-do list. After all, many of the things in our life would not need the same quality of attention that we’ve been giving them. Maybe a qualitative approach to the way we spend our precious hours would make more sense. Instead of starting off with how much time to allocate for each projects, how about we figure out first which projects would make give us a better sense of satisfaction and accomplishment? Maybe you’ve always wanted to learn how to bake apple pies. But as you look at your calendar, you might realize that you barely have time to slot in any 60 minutes baking lessons for the weeks to come. And this is when you should start looking into those menial tasks that is gnawing your time away and possibly replace those slots with baking lessons.
We can always make time for the things that we love to do. But if we don’t remind ourselves the goals that we want to accomplish on a daily basis, it’s very easy to let other parasitic tasks slip into our schedule.
Go ahead and list down all the things you want to accomplish by end of the year, and stick to it. Remember, the goal is to do the things that will make your life more enjoyable.[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]