Failing to plan is planning to fail.
I just read a blog from http://www.thesimpledollar.com/ . The writer’s messages are mostly on-point with the solid research shining through. This one was about trading money for labor* to get more time in your busy day. Will hiring an assistant or outsourcing mundane chores actually give you more time or just add another iron in your crowded fire?
To help me decide, I also read the usual readers’ postings following this article. There was a lot of hair splitting over what to do with this newly captured time. Why spend time waiting in a Jiffy Lube when you could be making sales calls or planning an upcoming meeting? But wait, isn’t your steel stallion on a lift being drained of fluids. The argument swayed back and forth with no clear consensus, but it made me think.
What’s a better way to spend time then with yourself? A blank sheet and a pencil helps your trapped thoughts spring forward. Finding a quiet spot to meditate will reboot your mojo to mellow. Writing a message no one will read is not wasted time, it’s creative writing practice.
I now find time to play a self-indulgent game with no name. Its goal is write down things to make my life the slimmest percent better. It may be about buying clothes; eating better; or listing unfinished work. Even if I’m ill prepared for the exercise and it comes up empty, its is not wasted time. I’ve become more in touch to what’s going on in my life.
So far, I’ve decided I don’t want an assistant to be part of how I go through life.
Doing it myself is too much fun.
* this article: http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2010/06/24/professional-time-leisure-time-and-wasted-time/