The time when you don’t have time

Benedict Aleh Ogadinma
3 min readOct 22, 2021

What time is it now?

With the frenzy of our life nowadays, we all have something to do for most of it.

Maybe from when you wake up till you have lunch you have to work, then an hour of rest, another work in the post meridian time and finally home, relax and stay with family.

If you love doing your job, ok, no problem, but if you don’t love it, you would want more time to spend on things you enjoy.

We all want more time to do the things we like, so you will agree with me when I say that time is the most important resource that we have.

If one has time, he can do anything he wants to do, he can learn a new language, he can go run, he can stay with his family, he can think.

The difference between having and not having time.

Having the time to think is the most important tool.

When you can think about something, you can act with consciousness and rationality.

Thanks to that 2 you can have more good choices and a healthier and happy life thanks to all your good solutions.

Yes, time is money.

But, money is not time (in most cases).

How can I have more time to do the things I love?

I don’t have a good answer for sure about this question, but all I know is that there are some methods to organize your daily life in order to have more time for you.

I participate in a course where they teach me some rules that can improve my focus time, bringing with them more free time to do other things.

Here are the 5 methods I learned:

  • Parkinson's method: “The work tends to become more in front of a large time spent because it tends to occupy every part of it” so assign a good time schedule the more time we have to complete a task, the more time this task will take.
  • Pareto’s method: Studies all the work you have to do and finds that 20% can do the 80% of the output.

This principle means that 80% of revenue is produced by 20% of customers or that 20% of projects give 80% of the results, think about it.

  • Laborit’s method: “Our behavior drives us to do what makes us happy first. “

Start your workday with the most difficult task, then offer yourself a reward as soon as it is finished.

  • Illich’s method: “Beyond 90 minutes spent on a task, our attention and our effectiveness diminishes.” Learn to take breaks. Your brain needs breaks to be productive. So work when you have to work and relax when you have to relax.
  • Hofstadter’s method: “It always takes longer than expected “ It is better to finish a project earlier than planned, rather than the other way around. So don’t take the law of Parkinson too seriously…

There are some things in common between the “Time Management Guru”….

Kevin Kruse made a lot of interviews during this year with billionaires, multi-millionaire entrepreneurs, Olympic champions, and excellent students.

There are some interesting common answers, from these we can keep some important principles…

  • They have 1.440 good things to not waste their time :

We have 1.440 minutes in a day, all of these are important.

  • They don’t do extra work :

They prefer a good rest in front of a not-finished work, it’s better a good work split in 2 different days than a good work 1 day and a random day in another day.

  • They know how to use their energy properly :

All of these people know how they work (their inner self) and they know when it is the time to do the focus work and when to rest when to read and when to work out.

Final

This is the time, and I think it’s better to know how your time is used than watch it come and go like we have infinite of it.

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