Time Management Cure by Brian Hall

Author:Brian Hall [Hall, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

Things to try out:

Take care of urgent tasks yourself whenever possible

Try to delegate important tasks anytime they don’t require your persona and immediate attention

Prioritizing urgent and important tasks will help you do them when they need to be done

Chapter Thirteen: Time Producing vs. Time Consuming

Our time spent producing should out-measure our time spent consuming so long as we do not have a surplus of a product or are not sustaining ourselves. When we are sustaining ourselves, for the time being, we can spend our time in a bit more of a consumptive manner—but when we find ourselves in deficits or do not have any surpluses of product or income, we should focus more on our production than on our consumption.

A good life involves a balance between the two. When we spend too much of our time producing, we become human beings rather than human doings. As Herman Melville once said in his short story Bartleby the Scrivener “on errands of life, these letters speed to death.” We here are the letters if we spend our lives exclusively for work, never taking the time to sit back and appreciate all of the things that are right before our eyes due to our constant drive toward new work to do. Life, like all things, is transient. We do not get infinite time on earth and should therefore not waste what we do get exclusively on work. Ambition can be a great thing to have that can serve to propel us toward new and greater things throughout life, but this virtue, like all others, has to exist within a golden mean: too little would be idleness, while too much would be avarice. Humans need both work and play. One cannot exist without the other.

Too much time consuming is just as dangerous, if not more. This mode of conduct causes problems of plenty rather than those of poverty. It might be more comfortable to have the former, but these problems of the upper echelons are typically much less becoming than those of time producers. It always strikes us as less virtuous to see the issues that arrive with having too much free time, especially when these issues are juxtaposed with those of the more hardworking and perhaps less fortunate among us.

Aside from some existentialists, we all either believe or want to believe that our lives have some sort of meaning behind them. Most would agree that it is only our voluntary acceptance of suffering and our willingness to confront it that gives us this meaning. Hedonists who would like to spend their entire lives in leisure would therefore never find any greater meaning in life through their actions because in chasing their caprices they prove that they do not want to accept this suffering. We are all living like Sisyphus whether we like it or not, perpetually rolling a boulder up a hill just to watch it fall down again and again. It is irrelevant what we do—issues are always going to present themselves.

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