I just don’t have time…

I just don’t have time…

What is the one thing you’d really love to do but keep saying you just don’t have the time

For me, it's playing the saxophone. I think that in the last year, I’ve probably played it less than 5 times.

This is an activity that makes me really happy even though I'm not that good at it. You can imagine that every time it’s almost like starting from scratch since I don’t keep the consistency and momentum going. And even though it makes me happy, I always seem to push it right to the bottom of my list of things to do.

Not because I don’t like it.

Not because I’m procrastinating.

I just never seem to find the time…

And then I heard Tony Robbins speak and he said something profound, “If you don’t have 10 minutes, you don’t have a life.”

And it struck me – what kind of life do I create for myself if I don’t have 10 minutes to do something that I love?

And the fact is that I do have a life – a very full one for that matter – so I ask myself... How can I find those 10 minutes to play the sax?

Do you have something like this in your life as well? Something you’d love to do and yet you don’t seem to find the time?

Or perhaps you do find the time?

One thing I am going to do is adopt that mantra - if I don't have 10 minutes, then I don't have a life. I know that it makes me pause, think and decide what kind of life I want to have. And then, maybe, I'll drop what I'm doing and go play the sax.

Let’s hear your thoughts...

Yodan Piret

Chief Technology Officer | Executive CISO & Cyber Security Expert | Data science & Machine learning Engineer | Biomimicry Engineering

5 年

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Armand Ruckli

ICT Software Testing Engineer at Raiffeisen Switzerland

5 年

We always have time for things that are sufficiently important to us. It's all a matter of priorities. "Time is money" thinkers might disagree, but what understanding of time do they have. Once they are about to die, they might realise how many things they have missed and money won't help them anymore. To live is now. We don't know about tomorrow.

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