When You Feel Like You’re Running Out Of Time

Running out of time is probably the world’s biggest problem and no one is solving it. Perhaps, it’s the thing that can’t be solved simply because obviously, we can’t control time.

That 24 hours we have in a day or more typically 23 hours 56 minutes seems isn’t enough to carry all our daily and crucial work. Every work we perform in between lifting our head off the pillow and then putting it back doesn’t give us that happiness and satisfaction we have with our capabilities.

In a nutshell, it’s like we are completing but not finishing.

I thought about it, while I was on a short break from writing. And I found a very interesting fact that I’ve experienced often and possibly most of you have. Still figuring out if it is a phenomenon, feeling, or whatever but it frequently happens that sometimes the amount of work being constant behaves clashingly every day.

Let me explain in a simple way- Suppose that the same amount of work falls on both days, one when you are able to finish it and one when you don’t. It’s not always clear why this happened but clearly, time is not the culprit here. Perhaps it is the way we pursue work that we do constantly every day.

We all live in a competitive environment especially if you are from the city, everyone loses no time. Everyone is doing something in a determined way. Your friends, colleagues, and competitors all are busy doing or becoming ‘this’ or ‘that’.

It simply makes us feel compelled that to run a race we have to put in our maximum. That seems the only way. Though instinctively you know that you are trying your best, unfortunately in a moment it gets dominated by the outcomes of comparison.

Through comparison, the perspective is promptly picked up by forces that are not our own, and simply dilutes our way of pursuing the task. Because we feel that others’ ways are way more prominent. And most probably this might also be the reason why sometimes the same amount of work behaves irrationally.

The List Makers’ Misfortune

What most people usually do in these situations is make a list to carry out their daily work in a timely manner. Every task is now governed by time-bound. I tried this several times when I was in school but always failed to keep up with that.

It might be effective for some who are able to follow their own guidelines, but not for everyone because there are certain limitations and cases that make this solution highly ineffective.

Making a schedule, timetable, list, or whatever you call it causes you to be fragile in a dynamic environment.

The list-maker people often end up doing things that aren’t the need of today, there might be other crucial things that must have been done before what you did according to the schedule you have made.

The art of prioritization and doing something out of the syllabus i.e., the schedule might be a good call to make you stop saying that you are running out of time. isn’t it?

So, why make the list when you really know that uncertainties are there? I suspect some of you might not agree with me here.

The Puzzle Of Time Management

In the scenario of time scarcity, it is likely that you’ve read about time management and skills.

Time management is a bit complex thing to explain to everybody as everyone possesses a different personality and deals with different circumstances. And moreover, I myself am not eligible to advise you.

But the thing that sets in is that time management is more of a change in personality rather than developing and learning a skill. Skills can be developed, but personality traits are really hard to change. So, instead of reading about time management skills on the internet why not acquire those sets of techniques that fit your personality?

Time management isn’t about doing something quickly as possible, it is about the time you can save for yourself.

In fact, if you are expecting greatness using time management skills, let me remind you that the definition of great is always changing as one keeps achieving greatness. No matter what we do, there’s always something more to be done in life.

Contradict With The Feeling Of Groundhog Day

Have you ever been in a situation where you feel like you are living the same day over & over again? The feeling of being stuck in the endless time loop.

It is the feeling when routine work seems the only work to do. The feeling of having no time but having enough time.

If you’re familiar with this feeling then you know how eagerly we wait for change and something new in our life in the expectation of our amazing days.

Eventually, it ends up creating a contradiction. Because when we choose something new to do, it is not always that something does work right the first time. Everything takes time.

Knowingly we long to know what is just around the next bend and end up creating an unnecessary work burden.

The fear of scarcity of time somewhere also depends on the things you enjoy and things you don’t.

Take A Genuine Break

When you feel like the work is getting over you, it’s the right time you should go for a break, a genuine break.

Your body and brain need to get healed. I guess, this leads to more productivity than time management itself. So, stop saying ‘YES’ to everything, it is not always the default answer.

We are not giving ourselves ‘Time to think.’

Here surely we are running out of time- A time to think.

Time to think is the most scarce thing that we have in recent times. There’s a book written stating that-

“When people write history about the time we are presently living in. It will not be about the amazing technologies we had. It’s going to be about how the human race has never been bombarded with so many choices and options.”

Every minute we are fighting to focus on something. There are so many distractions around us that are equally demanding our attention every day every minute.

A Genuine break means a break from all the distractions too. Give yourself some time. Time to think. In fact, our brain comes up with better ideas and solutions when it is not actively working and away from distractions.

Next time you take a genuine break believe you aren’t wasting your time. You are utilizing it for future use.

Make Sense?

I hope it is.

I must say in the end – Time is running out but for you know what.

So, what’s your theory about the scarcity of time and why it feels like we are running out of time? Is anything different you are experiencing?

There are people who are asking the same question and need a solution.

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