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Don’t Worry, You Have Time.
When I realized I was thinking of time management all wrong.
Last year, with two kids at home being homeschooled, two teenagers in extracurriculars, a part-time work-from-home job with tight deadlines, and a time-intensive volunteer position with my church, I found myself constantly thinking, “I don’t have time.”
I didn’t have time to exercise, I didn’t have time to clean, I didn’t have time to spend with friends– I didn’t even have time to call my own mother.
Normally in this situation I’d drop the least important thing off my plate, but which was that? My kids’ education? My commitment to my faith? My income? They were all non-negotiables.
I was running from task to task, a slave to my frantic schedule, yet I never really felt like I was getting anywhere. I was surviving, but I certainly wasn’t thriving. I was the proverbial hamster on the wheel, and I was running out of steam.
In desperation, I started listening to productivity podcasts in the few minutes I had driving my teenagers to and from their after-school activities. I thought there must be some magic way to squeeze more time out of each day.
It turns out there was a solution– but it wasn’t magic. It was a mindset.
