How You Spend Your Time Matters

Reacting will never take you where you want to go.

What is the best use of my limited time?

This is a question I’m often asking myself.

Working from home means balancing work and domestic duties. Those tend to fall to me because I’m home all the time, but now most of us are home all the time and renegotiating how we spend our time.

Our attention spans are limited. Despite the hefty to-do list, we return to the apps on our phone or favorite YouTube channels. We put off what we need to do becuase we “aren’t in the mood” for it.

In times of crisis or when life gets busy, it’s easy to slip into reacting mode and deal with whatever life throws our way. Reacting mode can feel safer than making a plan and putting it in place.

But reacting mode will never take us where we want to go.

Good time management and keeping routines matters. Even now. Especially now.

Time management night be the one thing standing between you and what you want.

Taking control of your time use moves you from reacting and feeling indecisive to a power position. When you have the power to decide how your time is spent, you can allocate time toward your goals. You can pursue hobbies and passion projects–things that fill you with energy.

If you don’t manage your time, someone else will. Be it a boss or a family member.

Don’t allow someone else to manage your time then complain about how you aren’t where you thought you’d be. You’re not–and you’re holding yourself back by giving away your power.

When you spend your time waiting for someone else to tell you what to do next, you miss the opportunity to decide what’s important to you and pursue it. You won’t get everything you chase after, but you will never get what you want if you don’t aim for it. Spending your time working toward your dreams is a big confidence booster. Once you’ve achieved something important by working for it, you’ll know you can do it again if you put in the effort.

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