168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think

by Laura Vanderkam

“Simply changing my words from ‘I don’t have time for that’ to ‘That’s not a priority for me’ has completely changed the way that I organize my life.

while we think of our lives in grand abstractions, a life is actually lived in hours. If you want to be a writer, you must dedicate hours to putting words on a page.

The way I see it, anything you do once a week happens often enough to be important to you,

when you focus on what you do best, on what brings you the most satisfaction, there is plenty of space for everything.

You’ll need to change your life to spend more time on these things, and less on the things that are neither meaningful nor pleasurable for you or for people you care about.

When you say “I don’t have time,” this puts the responsibility on someone else: a boss, a client, your family. Or else it puts the responsibility on some nebulous force: capitalism, society, the monster under the bed.

People who get the most out of life spend as much of their time as possible on these core competency activities, and as little as possible on other things.

The truth is, money, like time, is a choice—and often a related choice. Just

Multitasking is, more often than not, inefficient single-tasking.