"I Don't Have Enough Time"

Time

There are days when I get shocked back into reality. Where I notice I have told myself a continuous lie. The lie that I tell myself Is not having enough time. Taking inventory of my time I realize that I have so much time on my hands. More than most. I have a 40 hour job week but my evenings and weekends are free. Almost completely free. No two jobs, no kids, no responsibilities other than keeping up with myself. And I whine. I whine about not having enough time. How I’m extremely tired. How I don’t have time to complete my tests. To accomplish anything extra. 

How do I exercise?

How did I do homework? 

How do I market? 

How do I meet other goals? How do I complete the smallest tactic that will weigh the cards in my favor to accomplish a goal of mine. 

The shocking reality to my brain is that I have exponentially more time than most people. They have kids, puppy dogs, two jobs, other time commitments. I have one day a week where I work for 8 hours and then do school for a couple hours and sometimes on my late days I would get to being away from home for 12 hours. I used to do that daily. Now I work 8 hours and I feel like I got hit by a truck and NEED to relax IMMEDIATELY and for EXTENDED periods of time. When it came to  my goals there would be an excuse. “I’ll start tomorrow” “I’ll start when life slows down.” Funny part about life is that it is unpredictable and it might never slow down. I’ll start tomorrow is funny because after two months of tomorrows passing I am still not working hard towards my goals. No progress even though in 2024 that was my word of the year. A word that I resembled pretty well. I have time. That isn’t the problem. And it is finally time to admit that. 

People have so many other things. I don’t. My time is mine. Let’s use it as such. Here are some thing I can do to reach my goals. 

Pickleball training or some type of exercise daily. Golf, walk, run, pickleball, basketball maybe even a few weight lifting sessions. 

Healthy foods in my body. Lots of veggies, water, quality protein, and fruits. There is a direct correlation between how I feel and what I eat. 

Chess and piano are two mental goals I want to hit. Chess is a quick game I can do at any moment. Piano I loved to play great songs and playing an instrument just felt amazing. 

Business. Something I wanted to do so much and made some mental gymnastics over how bad I wanted it. Post every day. A blog. A video. A picture. It doesn’t have to be incredible every day. Learn marketing. Try new things just get consistent there. Every person I hear about marketing says to just start and figure it out. 

School. A HW assignment each day is more than fair. 

Write fiction and read audio books. It doesn’t have to be 3,000 words a day. Just a quick writing sessions that I loved to do. 

It might seem ambitious. Lots of items but several of them can be done one after another in a small timeframe. Time is on your side. I need to use this blessing because with life, you never know when time commitments might change.