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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
Charlotte Booth • Dec 13, 2022
Identify wasted time
We've all done it. Had loads of plans for a Saturday and then realised it was already 4pm and you hadn't achieved any of them - even if you kept saying to yourself, " I must do ..." . Time is a fickle master and can move at different speeds.
All of us use the excuse, "I don't have time", to explain why we haven't done something or worse why we can't do something that we claim is one of our dreams.
I meet lots of people who say, “I want to write a book, but I don’t have time.” However, they are often the same people who will talk about the great show they binge-watched on Netflix or tell me about the day they spent wandering around the shops buying things they don’t really need.
Now don't get me wrong, I do all these things too - claim I am too busy then watch four episodes of Stranger Things. And sometimes that is exactly what we need to do with our time.
But we shouldn't use time - or lack of it - as an excuse.
Everyone has 168 hours a week.
What you achieve in those hours is down to organisation, prioritisation and desire.
You will always find the time to do the things you absolutely want to do.
Take writing a book for example. Many people think you need to be writing for six hours a day to produce a book. But you don't. You can write a book in 10 minutes a day if that is all the time you have. It will just take you longer, of course, to finish it.
If you do want to write a book and believe you don’t have time, look at your day and see where you could carve an hour out – just one hour. This could be your lunch break, or just after dinner instead of watching TV or even getting up an hour earlier. Maybe your partner loves to watch Strictly or Top Gear and you don't so rather than sitting watching it anyway, use that time to write. Or perhaps you can spare three slots of 20 minutes – it all adds up.
There are creative ways to find time and you will always find time to do things you really want to do. If you genuinely can’t find one hour a day or even in a week then you probably don’t really want to write a book.
If, however, you do want to do it, and don’t want to regret it later in life, perhaps I can help you get started. I offer a three-month mentoring programme to help you kickstart your book. In that time we create an extensive plan, a realistic writing schedule and I guide on writing style, formatting and direction. Why not take the first step towards your dream and contact me right now! It will literally take you a minute to drop me an email. Just one little minute.
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