There is enough time.

I know I talk about time and efficiency elsewhere but it really seems appropriate to discuss it again just a week before Christmas.Time waits for no man. Time is the one resource that you can never get back once you spend it.

Around the holidays people are always rushing around frantically attempting to get as much done in as little time as possible. Often we hear that there just isn't enough time in the day to get everything done.

For the most part, that just isn't true. We tend to spend(waste) a lot of time doing things that are not absolutely necessary. Or we do things in extremely non-efficient ways.

Part of this is due to the subconscious routines that we get into over time. We get used to going to place A and then place B and then to place C before moving on to place D. When a new thing comes up we just naturally decide that it will get handled after we are done with the other stops. It becomes place E.

It takes us four hours to do things A through E and we start to scream about how there's not enough time to get everything done. But then we realize, or someone points out, that place E is actually between A and B and D is between B and C. If we switch the order of operations to A, E,B,D,C we can actually save thirty minutes to an hour of time due to the fact that we are not constantly backtracking past areas we have already been.

There is also all that time spent waiting to do things. Don't know what I mean? How about in your car while traveling from place to place for Xmas shopping. Or the commute to work.

What is it that you've always wanted to be able to do but never seem to have the time for? How about learning another language? What about developing a skill to be better at your current job or possibly even to replace your job? Instead of wasting all that time while traveling from place to place by listening to tunes on the radio, you could be feeding your mind. Listen to motivational speeches or books on tape, things that will assist you in changing the way you think so that you can be ever more successful in life.

How much of each day do you spend in front of digital media, the television, computer, tablet or whatever, just mindlessly going from one thing to another? If you cut that time in half you would surely have more time for things like making a list of what you need to do that day and perhaps figuring out the best way to get each thing done, so that you have more time left over at the end of the day to spend as you wish.

The more efficiently you can do each task the quicker you can complete the list.  It isn't that there is not enough time. It is that you are doing something the wrong way. Correct that, whatever it is and rejoice at the extra time you suddenly find you have.

We all have a limited amount of time and should make the best of each moment. How many other ways can you think of that you could put your time to better use?