Chapter 3Time Management

Ah, time. There just never seems to be enough. And yet, rather than a true lack of time, the issue is almost always how you choose to spend it. You’ve probably heard suggestions about the effectiveness of tracking your time to figure out where it’s really going. The concept is the same one that money experts advocate for tracking your spending. The easiest way to see where your time goes is to keep track of it for a week or so by writing down what you do each day, preferably in 15-minute increments. If the refrains of your life are “I have no time” and “I don’t know where the days go,” or if you feel as though you are always running out of time, this is probably a very useful exercise.

Many of us already have a pretty ...

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