Time: How to make it ours

Time is precious and we all know it. A regular excuse that we all use is simply “I just don’t have the time”. But then, why does it seem that “successful” people always have enough time to do what they want to.
A simple reason is that their organization and perception of time is different.

So let’s look at time as a resource and consider how we can make use of it instead of being used by it.

Let us first consider the amount of time we all share: every day has 24 hours. This means that no matter what happens we are all constrained to organize ourselves in the same amount of time.
There are obvious actions that we will need to handle throughout the day. For instance, we all need to work, sleep and eat. If we consider that work is 8 hours, sleep is 7 hours, eating takes about 2–3 hours during the day and commuting takes about 2 hours that still leaves us with about 4–5 hours for ourselves. I will discuss how to make use of our commuting time.

So what makes the difference comes from those “extra” hours that we all have and how we make use of them.

So here is a sum-up of 6 ways to make time work for us in improving ourselves.

1. Find an objective and understand it