Organized Time
For a Better Life

Organized time to me means spending your time doing things you want to do.

If you are spending a lot of your time doing things you don't want to do, then you are not living a good life.

There is plenty of time decided for you already. You need to carve out hunks of time for yourself.

The easiest way to have time to do what you want to do is to NOT do what you don't want to do.

This sounds too simple doesn't it? Doesn't everyone do that already?

No, they don't.

I didn't for much of my marriage. I kept doing what my wife wanted. I had such little time for myself that it was ridiculous. She organized time for me.

Each person needs to have a lot of organized time to do what he or she wants. That is the essence of life. There should be no one telling you what to do, how to do it and how much time it should take to do the things throughout every moment of your life.

But that becomes the reality of a lot of people. Parents telling kids what to do. Kids monopolizing all the parents time. One spouse demanding that the other cater to their needs. Parents dictating how their adult children should live. Friends making demands on their friends. Bosses telling when to work and how much. Churches demanding your time and obedience. Other organizations demanding your time. Phone calls during your free time.

You need, no, you must, start carving out time for yourself. It is your own life, it is not for others to tell you what to do and when to do it.

I am not going to tell you what to spend your free time on. That is for you to decide. I am not into moralizing and preaching what people should do to live a good life. I am only into pointing out ways for you to obtain more free time.

Not just spare moments here and there. Not just extra minutes. Not getting up earlier. Not staying up later.

I mean hours, days, weeks, months and years of time. That's what I am talking about.

You will wail at me. How can I have all that time? I have so many responsibilities and so many demands on my time.Well, you just said it. So many demands on MY time. It is your organized time and you need to start immediately reclaiming it to determine how to spend it.

Go through my site. It has ways and methods I use to save time for myself.

More importantly it has my mindset for keeping my time, mine.

Again, the easiest way to instantly have more time is to stop doing things you don't want to do.

Here is a small list of things that I used to do that took a lot of organized time that I do not do anymore because I don't want to do them:

1) Shopping with my wife. She is now my ex-wife so obviously we are through. But for married men, this is critical. Shopping with a woman can be great fun. Whether a girlfriend or a wife. At the point it no longer is fun, then you need to stop doing it with her. The test is, if it is fun for you. It can be a sexy thing to do together. It can be fun to pick out things together. It can be a bonding experience. Or it can be a nightmare. When it becomes a nightmare, then bow out gracefully.

2) Extra hours at work. I worked a lot of overtime for about 5 or 6 years. Sometimes 10 to 20 extra hours per week all year long. I did it for the money. The money was good, but now the money is all spent and I have nothing to show for it. This extra work took my time and hurt my health. Work is work and it is fine. It is a necessity to earn a living in some way. But there is a limit to how much a person can work.

3) Having your kids involved in lots of extra curricular activities. There is a balance. Kids need some of this and if they want to do it, you will have to find a way.

4) Church services. Churches seem to think people have unlimited time to go to multiple services each week and during the holidays. Plus they have lots of extra stuff for you to do and be involved in.

Just go ahead and start eliminating what you don't want to do and your organized time will skyrocket.

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