Did you ever get so busy that you felt you no longer have the time to do the things you like? That feeling hits me all the time. I have been keeping track of how I spend my time over the past couple of days, and I've noticed that while I get a lot of the little things I want to get done accomplished, many of my larger projects fall to the wayside.
I think the problem lies in the amount of time that some of my larger projects would take to do. I work on a computer all day. It is easy to get up to get a cup of coffee and get two or three little tasks done in five or ten minutes...pay the bills, clean up my desk, read an article or two while I drink my coffee. These are the easy ones. Checking my daughters' school work or playing with my daughters usually has to wait until after we have dinner and/or after we get back from karate. Meanwhile, things like taking the girls for a hike or to the museum needs to be put off until the weekend, or in many cases, put off for weeks until everyone's schedules seem to coincide. In the end, what's missing is time. Technology has helped to free up so much time that I have expanded my to do lists to such a level that I always seem to be doing something. Ten years ago, while I worked in New York, every day I had about two hours in the morning and another two at night where I didn't have to do anything but sit and relax while the bus or train ran me home. Although I hated the commute, it did give me a time to cool down and just relax, evry morning and every evening. Do I think I would like to do the daily commute again? No. What I do think I'd like is to pencil in some "me time" every day. Maybe twenty minutes in the morning before everyone gets up to just sit and enjoy a cup of coffee. And the same in the evening. Right now, I get up get dressed and start reading through my emails. Then I check the news sites to make sure there was no new news for my companies. At night, after playing with my daughters, it's back to checking the news, in case I have to get ahead of anything. All said, time to pencil in some me time and focus my work time during the day a little more effectively so that everything still gets done with the precision it needs and deserves. We'll see how the new schedule works out. Time to make time!
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