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What annoys me about a lot of time management advice is the same thing that annoys me about bucket lists. Acting as if the entire measure of the value of your l

What annoys me about a lot of time management advice is the same thing that annoys me about bucket lists. Acting as if the entire measure of the value of your life is how "efficiently" you spend every second. I totally agree about having a "stop doing" list, because that shit can eat up your whole life on stuff that you didn't actually enjoy. But leaving space for coincidence and serendipity is important too. And doing useless things sometimes, so that when you DO need more time, you have something left to give up that's not important to you. If you're already maxed out with valuable uses of your time, there's no room to add something else. (crossover: decluttering and the "get rid of something before you add something")

lmm 12y ago
> And doing useless things sometimes, so that when you DO need more time, you have something left to give up that's not important to you. If you're already maxed out with valuable uses of your time, there's no room to add something else. That makes no sense. At any given time you do the most valuable things available. When something else comes up, either it's more valuable than the least valuable thing you're currently doing - in which case great, you do it instead of that - or it's not, in which case why would you want to do it? When I found myself unexpectedly in a relationship I needed more time, so I stopped doing taekwando and dropped out of my roleplaying campaign as soon as there was a story-appropriate point to do so. Losing those things hurt, but I knew I was replacing them with something better. If I'd instead been keeping n nights a week free in case something comes up, what would I have gained? I'd just have been less happy in the weeks before that.