Time Management

I need a solid eight hours of sleep. I no longer have kids up in the night, so eight hours is doable. If you aren’t there now, I’m sorry. Feel free to take a quick nap, it won’t hurt my feelings. But I function best with eight hours, when possible. I’ve talked to other people who do well with 7, or even six.  So a couple of years ago I started praying that I could be functional with six. Thinking that with two extra hours I could get so much done.

But praying for more time is kinda like praying for more money. If you aren’t using what you have wisely, you’re unlikely to be wise with more. Time is also like money in that once it’s spent it’s gone. But I think we make a mistake when we think that we have to be busy to make the time count. In fact the money that is working the best for us isn’t the money we spend but the money that is in the bank, doing nothing, just gaining interest.

We need to realize that the bigger return on our time may come in the moments of nothing, the small moments invested in doing nothing productive with our families, or even on our own.

Our culture is in such a busy get things done mindset, that just like when we spend all out money, we bankrupt ourselves with time, we are writing checks with our time that are leading to our own depletion and exhaustion.

So take some advice from your money and just do less.  Instead of trying to get more time, let’s try to make the most of the time we have.