How to Make More Time
Short answer. You don’t. Everyone gets 24 hours a day. Everyone gets seven days in a week. I used to say “Oh. I don’t have time for that”. “I don’t have time to exercise. I don’t have time to manage money better. I don’t have time to learn that area of law”. Everyone gets the same amount of time. You and I have the same amount of time that Aristotle, Leonardo DaVinci and Henry David Thoreau had.
David Ball likes to say that a trial, just like a play is about what it spends it time on. If you spend all your time on liability and not damages, the issue becomes one of right and wrong and not about the extent of the wrong. I believe our lives are the same way. They are about what we spend on our time on. We all get 24 hours and spend those 24 hours. I always make time to check my e-mail. I always make time to check my favorite political sites on the internet. I make time to read my favorite blogs. It’s a cop out for me to say that I don’t have time to exercise. In reality, when we say that we don’t have time for something, we’re saying “It’s not a high enough priority to get to”.
So the short answer is you can’t make more time, but you can consciously spend more time on things that make you happy and help your life.
I really appreciate the commentary about "not having enough time." We all have the exact same 24 hours a day. At this point, 99% of the population would characterize themselves as busy. I can have 5 million thing going on and I refuse to admit that I am busy.
Ron Miller
www.millerandzois.com
I'm preparing an hour's workshop for a business in my area of NC on time wasters, interruptions, and using the right tools for the job. Your post hits home with me - because it's about the choices we make.
"Take away my money, I'll make more. But if you waste my time, that's something I can't get back."
Anne B. Cornwell
ABC Consulting
Productivity Coaching for Professionals
