Subjective time

I opened up Slack the other day to find this phrase on the loading screen:

“Always get plenty of sleep, if you can.”

Thing is, short of having a two year old, how can you not?

We all have 24 hours in a day. And most of us are fortunate to have only 8 hour workdays (sometimes a few hours more).

Time as it happens, isn’t something you fabricate. It’s already there.

The way to ‘make time’ is to make sacrifices, with the general rule being that less of one thing gets you more of another.

Less late-night tv, net-browsing, or texting/talking gets you more sleep. It also gets you more time to do other productive and unproductive things, as well.

Same goes for the two hour commute you might take to get back home from work. If you wait up an hour past rush hour, you might save a free hour of not having to slog through traffic.

Or consider waiting, in line for a cappaccino, or at the doctor’s office. What if you sacrificed that time to do something else while you wait?

It turns out we’re always trading time for something. The secret of the trade is figuring out how to spend the most of it doing the things that matter.