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Make Time

If you try to find time for your most valued activities by first dealing with all the other important demands on your time, in the hope that there’ll be some left over at the end, you’ll be disappointed. So if a certain activity really matters to you – a creative project, say, though it could just as easily be nurturing a relationship, or activism

Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

What else would you do if your biggest goal for the year was cultivating one or two deeper friendships, and you now realize that you have more than enough time to make it happen?

Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships

“If you don’t save a bit of your time for you, now, out of every week,” as she puts it, “there is no moment in the future when you’ll magically be done with everything and have loads of free time.” This is the same insight embodied in two venerable pieces of time management advice: to work on your most important project for the first hour of each d... See more

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Defining time well spent for yourself is one of the most important tasks of going day to day in this life.

Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day

Jake Knapp

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In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry—to allow things to take the time they take—is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself, instead of deferring all your fulfillment to the future.

Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Principle number one is to pay yourself first when it comes to time.