Ask HN: How do you make time?

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Every day I feel like Henry Bemis from The Twilight Zone... surely someone here has tackled this problem in their life. Time just seems to disappear, each day I wake up and I have to do things and it feels like my time for the day was already sold off while I was sleeping. In need of life hacks..

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The best piece of advice I ever heard was "all you need is less".

For me, simply doing less stuff, but being more "intentional" or "mindful" or whatever you want to call it, is the key. For example, I used to have magazine subscriptions, RSS feeds, piles of books, hobbies and side projects, and tons of stuff I wanted to do or places I wanted to travel. Those things, which were entirely elective, added to the overall burden of feeling like I couldn't keep up.

As I've aged I've also switched from "this is what I want to accomplish" to "this is how I want to spend my time". I do a lot more reading, staring into the distance, joking around, etc.

I'm guessing your problem is that you work 8+ hours per day and have little to no flexibility. The only way to fix this is to change the way you make a living where your direct hours != the money you earn, like running some sort of business.

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