Nobody Has More Time Than Anybody Else

You often hear people say they don't have enough time.  We even say that other people are successful at a goal while we are not because they have more time than we do.

This is a wrong view.

Time is an illusion.  "Time" was invented by man to attempt to make some sense of the Universe and compare series of events to one another.  But as Einstein and others have proved, time is relative.  Time slows with speed, so it actually isn't a constant at all.  Toss it out.

Since time is a concept and not an actual thing, now you can see that you can't make it.  When somebody says they will need to make time to do something, he is actually saying he will use his series of events more efficiently to get more done than the previous standard.

Bill Gates had no more hours in the day than you did.  He did not "make time" to build a billion dollar fortune.  He used his time, the same amount that you had, to focus on and execute the tasks to make his fortune happen.

Craig Alexander didn't have more time than you to win the Ironman World Championships.  He spent his time training, mastering how to most efficiently string together three events of physics, namely swim 2.4 miles, bike 112, and run 26.2. 

When you say you don't have time to train for triathlons or eat healthy, that's not true.  What is true is that you are currently living the lifestyle of somebody that has decided, through a series of choices, to not be able to string together the events and tasks to make a healthy triathlete happen.  You can change this with a new series of choices on how to spend your time.

David Allen, the founder of the GTD movement, teaches about how nobody has more time than anybody else.  Rather, we choose how to spend our time, and that makes all the difference.  Below is a video of a talk he gave to employees at Google.  Enjoy!