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Not Enough Hours In The Day




The topic of our meeting last week was "Time."  What would you do if you had more time in the day?  I can think of many things.  I know that I don't utilize all of my time well.  I never have.  I'm not disciplined when it comes to time management.  I find it so hard to put my "free-time" on a schedule.
 
First, I need to say that being a responsible adult, having a job, and living to pay bills just really screws up the time factor, and the fun factor of life!  I like my job, but a lot of time is spent there, and even more when you include the time spent driving to and from work.  Today, as I sit here at work, I think about the things I need to be doing, and the things I want to be doing.  As you probably have guessed, I'm not thinking about work.  You can see that I am thinking about, and writing this blog.  It's important to me, and I haven't done it in a while.  It has slipped through the cracks, as I have many other things going on.
 
Of course, I need to clean the house, do laundry, and all of that "not-fun" stuff, and I am really good at procrastinating on that, because, again, there are other things I would rather be doing.  I want to be working on my art.  I have orders to fill, and I seem to have the creative fever more often, when I can't utilize it!  I have books I want to read.  I want to get my knitting out again.  I want, and need to be exercising.  I'm sure the list could go on, and on.  Just give my mind a few minutes to slow down, and the list will continue to grow.
 
The new fall TV season is starting, and there is more TV that I want to watch, than I did over the summer.  I probably watch too much TV, but I do record all of my shows, and binge-watch, when necessary.  I don't live in front of the TV (although the idea of sitting in the recliner for long periods of time, also distracts me from the other things I need, and want to do.)
 
So, how do I best utilize the time I have?  How do I make more time in each day?  I already get up early every day, pretty much at the butt-crack of dawn (excuse the terminology), and try my best to get up at least 30 minutes earlier than I normally would, to get my exercise in, first thing in the morning.  Exercising after work eats up a lot of time, that I feel like I could, and should, be doing other things.  Therefore, I am able to talk myself out of something I need to be doing, to make the choice to do something else.  But, now that I am training for a 5K, there are a couple of evenings that I train after work.  This is something that I want to do, but that also means that something else probably will not get done that day.
 
I could stay up later at night, because I do go to bed early.  Usually though, I got up so early, that I am hardly able to hold my head up after 8:00 p.m.  (I keep the hours of an "OLD" person, I know!)  I also don't sleep well, so sleep is important to me.  So many times I want to watch Fatdag's live shows, and I just can't stay awake.  I know that I miss so much, by going to bed so early.
 
I guess I could make a schedule, and set alarms, and only allow myself so much time for each activity, but I am just not sure how I really feel about that.  Sometimes too much structure, totally overwhelms me.  What if I am not at a good stopping place when the alarm goes off, to move to the next item on the list?  What if it is time to work on a certain task, and I'm "just not feeling it?"  I can't be creative on schedule.  I can't force the inspiration.  I guess I could rearrange my schedule, but, that also seems overwhelming.
 
I wonder if anyone else gets this overwhelmed with time management, and not having enough hours in the day.  Is it just me?  Probably not.  I just wonder how others do it!


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