It’s tempting but naive to pretend that we can make time for everything by multitasking or by working more efficiently. But face it, there’s not that much slack in your schedule. An hour spent on one thing is an hour not spent on another. So if you’ve made a resolution to spend more time with your kids, or to take a college class, or to exercise more, then part of that resolution must be to decide what you’re going to stop doing. Make it concrete: Look back over your schedule for the past week and ask yourself, What, specifically, would I have given up to carve out the extra three or four or
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