Time Sucks The Life Out Of Us

Our days are long and our nights are short…In your lifetime you will spend

Seven years in the bathroom,
Six years eating, five years waiting in line,
Three years in meetings,
Two years playing telephone tag,
Eight months opening junk mail, and
Six months sitting at red lights.
You’ll get interrupted 73 times a day(!), take an hour of work home, read less than five minutes, talk to your spouse for four minutes, exercise less than three minutes, and play with your kid for two minutes.

Nightmarish. Want to change that picture? Just as with poor Scrooge, scared into life change by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and to come, it’s not too late for you to refocus your life. That is what time management is really all about right?

No matter what you do in life, you are still going to spend a lot of time waiting at red lights, idling in waiting rooms, and standing in line waiting for the customer in front of you to stop complaining.

Take Control Of Your Life And Your Time

Life is about making changes. You could make huge changes. You could quit your job, pack your bags, move to a cabin in the woods and live off the land or perhaps the seaside where the sand is soft and the moon is bright. While you could do this, you probably will not and probably should not.

Start slow; you can make tiny changes in your life on a daily basis, without needing anybody’s help or permission. You can, for example, set aside specific hours during the just for family, you can make sure you are home on time at least a few nights a week, you do not have to work all the time when you are home and so on…you get the point, right?

Take some time and use your creativity, initiative, and energy to this exploration, you will find ways to create meaningful, life-affirming change where perhaps life won’t pass you by. I would write more but I’m late for a meeting…Gotta Go-

Looking for a good book on the subject, suggested reading;

• The Visionary Leader: How to inspire success from the top down.
• Susan Bagyura (Author), Michael E. Gerber (Foreword), Fiona Dempsey (Illustrator)