How To Treat Your Time Like A Slice Of Pizza

As a parent you have very little 'spare time' each day.

Once the kids are asleep, the house is tidied enough that you would begrudgingly let your best friend round to see it, lunches are made, dishes washed up etc etc.

Once all that is done how much free time do you have before you crash into a sleep that even Aurora would be impressed by?

For me it's 60-90 minutes.

That timeframe used to be where I crammed everything into.

Facebook, Twitter, Reading, TV, chats, computer games, texts, football news and anything else I had wanted to do but couldn't.

But after a while I was feeling completely unfulfilled.

I couldn't achieve or enjoy anything as I was bouncing round faster than the tasmanian devil.

Then I would get frustrated and grumpy and grumble to my wife about how I need more time.

The fact is that as a parent we can't always make more time, unless we sacrifice something, and usually it's not something we can or want to sacrifice.

If you are trying to progress on a goal or something important to you, how can you do it if you spend your time like this?

When have you ever been successful, happy or fulfilled focusing on something at 7%?

But what about if you were clear on what you needed and spent your time like this?

How would you feel?

I fought this for a while but the determination to progress on my dreams was stronger than the resistance.

You may feel like that initially too.

But if you know something isn't right and you want it to change I would encourage you to try it.

Ruthlessly managing my time with this format has been a game changer for me.

Step 1 is knowing whether what you are currently doing is working for you or not.

Step 2 is working out what do you care about so much that it becomes what you want to spend most of your time progressing towards.

Let me know what you think!

Cheering you on,

Dan