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Originally Posted by seeker5  Heh, you do seem to do a lot though, from your full time banking job, to your poetry, to your multiple blogs. |
Right ... That's what I mean.
I hold down a full-time job as a lawyer specialising in investment banking. Yet I find the time to write poetry books; run a current affairs blog; meditate; swim and run regularly; and raise two kids. I also make time to meet my parent once a week for one week without fail. And I also read widely - about politics, economics, science, religion etc.
Apart from all that, I even have time left over for mindless surfing.
Here's the trick. An hour is inherently meaningless. It all depends on what you do with it. A person who works 80 hours a week doesn't necessarily accomplish any more than a person who works 40 hours.
Very often, people who work very hard are simply people who don't really understand how to do their work. That's why they have to work extra hard to accomplish the same amount as other people.
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Try this exercise. Next time at work, when you get a typical piece of work, time yourself and see how long you take to do it. Record the time you took. Then later, think about how you could have done it just as well or even better, but in lesser time.
The next time you get a similar piece of work, actually try it out and time yourself again.
What you're going to discover is that time is phenomenally elastic. A task that once took you eight hours, will later take you only four; then only take you two hours; then later only take you one.
Shockingly, you might even discover that a task that once took you eight hours, will eventually end up taking zero time. Because you'll learn that some things simply don't need to be done. If you learn to identify the cause of a problem, and to fix the cause, then you won't have to repeatedly solve the symptoms of the problem, again and again and again.