Ten Ways to Make Your Time Matter

Ten Ways to Make Your Time Matter

Time, the most precious resource we have, often slips away unnoticed. Discover ten transformative strategies to harness its potential, making every moment count. Let's delve into the art of time management, turning fleeting minutes into meaningful experiences.

The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly finite.

Given that, it follows that time management should be everyone’s chief concern.

Consolidate Your Caring

Social media is a machine for getting you to spend your time caring about the wrong things

Seek out novelty in the mundane

Time seems to speed up as we age

Cultivate instantaneous generosity

Give in to the generous impulse immediately, don’t wait to figure out if the recipient deserves your generosity.

Decide in advance what to fail at

Strategic underachievement: nominate in advance areas of your life in which you won’t expect excellence

Practice doing nothing

Resisting the urge to manipulate your experience or the people and things in the world around you, and to let things be as they are

Focus on what you’ve already completed, not just what’s left to do

One counter-strategy is to keep a “done list,” which starts empty first thing in the morning, but which you can gradually fill in throughout the day as you get things done. It’s a cheering reminder that you could have spent the day doing nothing remotely constructive…yet you didn’t.

Embrace boring and single-purpose technology

Make your devices as boring as possible, removing social media apps and, if you dare, email.

Adopt a “fixed volume” approach to productivity

One way is to keep two to-do lists-one for everything on your plate, one for the 10 or fewer things that you’re currently working on.

Serialize

Focus only on one big project at a time.

Be a researcher in relationships

When faced with a challenging or boring moment in a relationship, try being curious about the person you’re with, rather than controlling

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