Comments on: Overbooked http://www.zen.org/2005/08/20/overbooked/ The thoughts, ideas, habits, and interests of a sub-culture. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:23:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: brendan http://www.zen.org/2005/08/20/overbooked/#comment-8066 brendan Sun, 28 Aug 2005 14:03:37 +0000 http://www.zen.org/?p=364#comment-8066 I've got a running theory none of us have actually made less use of our time---as we slowly get older, the basic elements of time transform. With kids and a range of new responsibilities and feelings of what must be done, our minds are no longer able to apply themselves to the same level of granulatiry as before. As kids, summers were an eternity. As adults, hours, days, even years go by at a ever-accelerated rate. Anything you do for six hours straight seems to suddenly be finished, leaving your head to spin wondering what just happened. Do you think a fleet of nannies and housekeepers and account managers would make any of this feel different? Not good, not bad, just different? Nah, no matter what's eating up the time, there's always something else waiting in the wings eager to pick up consuming your time where the other task left off. All we have to do is remind ourselves that we should feel satisfied with the quantity of what we've accomplished each day---even if it's never as much as what you wanted to do. I know it's always half of what I thought I'd get done. :) I’ve got a running theory none of us have actually made less use of our time—as we slowly get older, the basic elements of time transform. With kids and a range of new responsibilities and feelings of what must be done, our minds are no longer able to apply themselves to the same level of granulatiry as before.

As kids, summers were an eternity. As adults, hours, days, even years go by at a ever-accelerated rate. Anything you do for six hours straight seems to suddenly be finished, leaving your head to spin wondering what just happened.

Do you think a fleet of nannies and housekeepers and account managers would make any of this feel different? Not good, not bad, just different?

Nah, no matter what’s eating up the time, there’s always something else waiting in the wings eager to pick up consuming your time where the other task left off.

All we have to do is remind ourselves that we should feel satisfied with the quantity of what we’ve accomplished each day—even if it’s never as much as what you wanted to do.

I know it’s always half of what I thought I’d get done. :)

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