Rethinking the Notion of Time
So how can we create the space to focus on Box 3? A key requirement is to rethink our notion of time.
“We may have leisure time, but no one has such a thing as free time,” says corporate consultant and academic B. Eugene Griessman in Time Tactics of Very Successful People (1994). “You may be lying by the pool or attending a play, but that’s not free time. All time has value.”
Griessman states that you should develop a full appreciation of the value of time, if necessary allocating a theoretical monetary cost for each hour depending on what you think an hour of your time is worth. Although mentally doubling your current hourly rate is a good starting point, the aim is not to be “crudely materialistic”. It is to help ...
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