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Confessions of a Burnt Out Over-Achiever
The reason for this effect is straightforward: the more firmly you believe it ought to be possible to find time for everything, the less pressure you’ll feel to ask whether any given activity is the best use for a portion of your time. Whenever you encounter some potential new item for your to-do list or your social calendar, you’ll be strongly bia
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
There is truly a bottomless pit of advice on how to do work faster, harder, and more efficiently, and all of these ideas have been comforting to me at various times in my career. Now, having made myself sick living like that, I find myself looking for new advice on how to adhere to some other approach, one that does not focus primarily on beating t... See more
Rachel Katz • Giving Up Hustle Culture Doesn't Mean Giving Up
These are the underlying meanings when someone says, “I don’t have enough time.” My environment is filled with inefficiencies, barriers and triggers that are sucking up my valuable time. I am ambitious and have high standards, but I don’t know exactly how to structure my day and week to tackle everything. My ambition has clouded my understanding of
... See moreKatie Lee • The Effortless Everyday: How to design your daily life to free up time and energy for what really matters
That is, running too hard at the wrong priorities, compromising ourselves, force-fitting ourselves into ways of living we know aren’t right … all of which is highly abrasive and inflammatory.