Why "I Don't Have Enought Time" is B.S.

This bit below is excerpted from the Commitment chapter in The Power To Transform, Assignment #8 (page 193):

One of the big complaints that I hear everywhere today is that “I don’t have enough time.” Everyone, everywhere lives in a story called “I am too busy.” At work this goes a step further, with more ominous consequences, and becomes a pervasive mood that we call overwhelm. This is a story people fall into in which there is too much to do, too much to know, not enough time, and not enough resources— and it isn’t ever going to change.

Our collective response to this mess has been endless sets of tips and techniques for what has been termed time management. To put it simply, this is all largely useless B.S.

As usual, this is a solution that is focused on the symptom, not the cause. To find the resolution to this dilemma, we need to get at the root cause.

The issue has little to do with time or its management. It isn’t as if we have somehow lately been running short of time. There are still 24 hours in a day, and this is likely to continue into the foreseeable future. Thus the issue isn’t time management:

It’s commitment management.

When we aren’t clear about what we are committed to, we tend to get over-involved, and this is what produces the mess in question. Involvement and commitment are not the same thing, and this is a key distinction. A lack of clear commitments opens the door to the tendency to say yes to too much and no to not enough. Combine this with a universal tendency to overestimate our capacity, and we have all the makings of the current mess.

The way out is simple. Become very clear about your commitments...

More about that next time.

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[Devremülkler]

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