Precious Time

We all know that time is precious because it's finite. But most of us have an uneasy relationship with time. We feel like it's rushing past us, like we don't have enough of it. We constantly complain that we're too busy, and we feel stressed about time. Some of that is our own fault. We may have one or both of these bad habits: We fear missing out on an important opportunity, or a valuable experience, so we say yes to every request for our time. We jam-pack our schedules, and our children's schedules. We let being hyper-busy measure our self-worth, instead of focusing on giving our best talents and energy to a few activities we deem essential. We forget that when everything is labeled "important," nothing is. Often, because our use of time is so unfocused and so driven by FOMO and our need to feel important and worthwhile, we get fatigued and lose motivation. Then we allow ourselves to wallow in time, to waste it with frivolous activ