You can’t make more time for yourself, you have to take more time for yourself.
Time is a commodity. It is the commodity in life that is most rare, and everyone is vying for your time.
Time is money!
Follow the money, and you’ll see where you are spending your time.
Triage
The average person works a 9 to 5 job to pay for time to live where they want, drive what they want, and do what they want.
For those who have a “job,” life is a case of battlefield triage where one is forced to rank items that require attention in order of “must-get-doneness.”
- Home from work – check
- Hit the gym – check
- Make dinner – check
- Eat dinner & clean up – check
- So tired, Do nothing productive – check
After dinner is where most of us lose it.
In this example, work, a job, a career (whatever you call your time-eater) is given top spot because it takes the most amount of time. It’s the elephant in the room.
A job is a black hole consuming a big part of your time.
Job vs. Work
Job and Work are just words, meaningless without context.
For this post, however, this is the concept of job vs. work.
A job is when you sell your time (and expertise) for money. You are a cog in someone else’s wheel powering an economic machine that ultimately gives them time to do what is important to them.
You get money – they get time.
Work is a labor of love. A passion. Work is living. Work could be having a job, as long as it aligns well with the individual. As long as it gives you the time to do what you want.
You get money – you get time.
Time is money.
Quit your Job and Live Full Time
This year I quit my job so that I could live full-time. I quit because I wanted more time. Time to think, to write, to live.
I was unwilling to give my employer 10 hours of my day Monday through Friday because I didn’t have enough time to do the things that were important to me.
I didn’t have time to work.
Now that I am working, I’ve discovered something very interesting.
Time is still a commodity.
Time is still rare, and other forces (besides a job) vie to take it from me.
Take Time – A Universal Truth(?)
Regardless of if you have a job or work, you have to take time, or it will be taken from you.
An advantage to a job (and perhaps the reason it is organized so) is that an employer sequesters your time and eliminates time-stealers in order to get stuff done.
Working, however, has no such time-lords. When you work, you have to proactively set the schedule and take the time.
