Do you need more hours in a day?

Did daylight savings save you, because it gave you one more hour in a day? When was the last time you asked someone how they were doing and they did not say busy? These days, it seems as though we are all too busy and we never really have the time to relax, without our to-do lists looming over our heads.

My friend Anne says we are all trying to squeeze every two minutes into one minute nowadays which is why we feel as though we cannot possibly accomplish everything we set out to do in a day. Logic does prevail and eventually we all come to some type of conclusion regarding how much time we really have in a day, 24 hours, except for daylight savings days. But, it sure would be nice to have more time do the things we want to do.

Some people think they will manage to keep their jobs even if they are always behind, while others think they cannot leave work until they are completely finished and their desks are cleaned off. There should be some middle ground, I say. If we really want to do something drastic about our time and what we squeeze into it, we can work towards become more efficient at what we are doing. If we can get faster at our daily tasks, we will ultimately have more free time, which equals more time to do what we want to do. Technology has helped to make us more effective, if we take a little time to learn how to use it properly. Another thing we can do to free up time is to cut tasks out that we don't have to do, or even better, don't love to do. Perhaps there is someone else at work or at home who is perfectly capable of doing some of these tasks. If we really look at our list of things to do, we will certainly find redundancies or at least things we can pass off to others.

Remember, we all seem to find at least some time to do the things we really want to do. It seems we only complain about not having enough hours in a day, when we are talking about the things we are not so crazy about doing. So maybe the real solution is to fill our lives with things we love to do. Just some food for thought.