Never Enough Time

by Chris McGinty of AccordingToWhim.com

You know what fascinates me? People who actually seem to have time to get things done and still manage to find time to “waste” are very fascinating. How do they do it? I don’t know. Do you know? I always seem to have too much to do and not enough time to tackle it all. I wonder sometimes if maybe I don’t know how to cut items from my To Do List. Is it because I don’t focus on one thing at a time? They say that we all have the same 24 hours a day, but you know what? I don’t think we do have the same 24 hours a day. We each have 24 hours a day, but I don’t think they’re the same.

I’ll probably get into that concept later when I have the time to explain it properly, but for now I have less than an hour to write this blog post and post it. I actually have some blog posts that are written and ready to go, but since I have a topic in mind, I’d like to write something instead of using up my reserve.

I do actually have priority items listed as daily habits, and then I have a separate To Do List for things to get to when I have extra time. The problem is that I either have too many daily items or not enough time to do a reasonable list of daily items. I’m never really sure which it is.

I think that ongoing activities are the toughest part of a To Do List. You get it done one day, and it’s there again the next day. It starts to feel like a lack of progress after a while. You have to start saying things like, “You’re making progress; it’s just subtle.” and “If you keep writing the blog eventually someone will read it.” When you spend the large bulk of your time doing ongoing activities, your To Do List seems very similar from day to day. I do feel like this is the right move, but I have to keep reminding myself that it is the right move.

Chris McGinty may very well have written this blog out of frustration and a lack of time before work.