After reading Marie Kondo's book, "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" and Arnold Bennett's "How to Live on 24 Hours a Day" I learned some very insightful time hacking lessons.
There is a very good reason why Marie Kondo is a mega superstar in the home organizing space. She so elegantly created a two-step process to organize your space.
It's that simple! Discard, then organize.
I think the same thing is true for time hacking. All of the little micro-responsibilities add up to a great big pile of soul-crushing commitments.
I don't have a solution to eliminate all of the things that you're doing that you shouldn't be doing, so for now I'm focusing on the organization part of the equation.
I read another great book called How To Live on 24 Hours A Day. It is a delightful book that was written in 1910, but it holds up. The idea is that you have sleep time, you have work time, and most people consider the time not at work as kind of shoulder time. Instead of treating that time with disregard, what if you added some purpose in there? You could definitely find 7 hours in your week just by adding a little bit of purpose into your shoulder time.
So, our take-away is to focus on 1. ELIMINATE followed by 2. REPURPOSE.
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