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Time Management is a Lie: Why You’re Failing to Manage Your Time
I know why you’re here. You’re here because you’re frustrated about how few hours there are in the day. Time is always running away from you, or you never know where it’s gone. One minute, you’re waking up at your alarm; the next, it’s 4 pm, you’ve only answered one email, and you can’t even remember even a fraction of the posts you’ve liked on Instagram.
You’re falling behind on your work, missing deadlines or scraping them through at the last minute, and you’re constantly playing catch up on Monday morning for everything you failed to get done last week; meanwhile, your hobbies are rotting away in the corner of your brain, you’re stressed out about how many texts you’ve yet to answer, and you haven’t seen your friends in months.
You’re here because you’ve identified that you can’t manage your time and want to change, which is an excellent observation, and you should be proud of yourself for taking this step.
But I have some bad news. You’re here because of the biggest mistake you’re making concerning time management. You’re bad at time management because you’ve set yourself up on an impossible task, chasing an illusionary concept. You’re not Dr Strange: you can’t manage time.
