How We Spend Our Time | The Curiosity Chronicle

the core challenge of managing our limited time isn’t about how to get everything done – that’s never going to happen – but how to decide most wisely what not to do, and how to feel at peace about not doing it.

So many of our decisions are related to how we’ll spend our most valuable resources: our time, money, and energy.

The trick is to utilize your time effectively. To value every minute of the day equally, regardless of how many other minutes are attached to it. Once you have chosen to value every minute, you can begin to create systems by which those precious minutes can be used.

The truly troubling thought, though, is that those of us who’d never dream of choosing a lifestyle like Salcedo’s might nonetheless be guilty of the same basic mistake—of treating our time as something to hoard, when it’s better approached as something to share, even if that means surrendering some of your power to decide exactly what you do with i

We tell ourselves that we have very little free time—but we have far more of it than we think. Our distraction time is sprinkled throughout our day between our more meaningful experiences, but all that time really does add up.