I’ve been feeling that I don’t have time to do all the things I want to. I’ve been adding to the “things what I do” list and unfortunately I don’t see a lengthening of the day to allow me to do these things. I think this means that I have to give up or lower my priorities of “things to do”.
Not enough time to get stuff done.
— Ian Parish (@iparish) October 21, 2014
Things what I have done regularly:
- Running
- Rowing [erg]
- Listening to podcasts
- Listening to music
- Playing Gran Tursimo
- Watching American Football
- Watching Babylon 5
- Write stuff on this website
- Go to the cinema regularly
New things what I do:
- Write music
- Play on the PC
- Play on the PS4 more
- Watch Hawaii Five-O
- Listen to more podcasts
- Learn new music
- CCF
I’m not too happy. All of these new things have to be prioritised. I could do with about an extra 4 hours a day to myself. I have to work and look after my family so once that’s all done I get little time to do all the things I want to. I don’t even consider myself to be a busy person. How do you get to do things if you are VERY busy? I don’t get it.
Now, I guess I am lucky that I do get time to do these things and I should be grateful and I think I am. I get to do things that I like doing, I just have to ensure that I balance my time successfully.
I have also come to the conclusion that I need at least an hour of “brain dead time” each day, preferably once the house is nice and quiet. I can cope with less than an hour if planned and I extend the time another evening. Oddly enough some things which I really enjoy don’t count as part of that hour. Gran Turismo is great and I play it a lot [not so much recently] but it doesn’t count as part of the hour, it’s something I have to concentrate on and work at, the rewards are good. Cinema doesn’t count towards the hour but most TV shows do. I guess that means I need an hour of stuff to watch each day, to keep the brain fresh!
