This Is How You Live Twice As Much

Stop wasting time…

If only we had more time, we say.

We’d get more done and finally feel ‘caught up.’

Our to-do list would have everything marked out. Life would be restored. And now we could finally sit and relax. No worries, no concerns, no more problems. Peace, at last.

So it makes sense that we always point the finger at time.

But would this change anything?

Wouldn’t we just add more to that to-do list? Set our ambitions higher. Seek more to fill our time.

Would we actually take this extra time — this gift — and do something useful with it?

Probably not.

Think about how we use our time now.

Scrolling. Binging. ‘Killing time.’

We torture ourselves: taking on more than the calendar or clock or our energy permits, wasting minutes that evolve into hours, and most egregiously, not noticing the value in what’s right in front of us.

Nothing exhibits this better than witnessing people on a beach, taking a vacation they spent hard-earned money on, in a job they might not even like, to spend time with their children, who are playing in the sand, with the open ocean in the background…while they bury their head in…