Making the Most of 24 Hours

In the modern world, we all make time for what want to do, or more so, the needs of the day: use the toilet, brush your teeth, grab breakfast (or just a quick to-go cup of coffee) and head to work. Then when the work is done that day, we contemplate what we’d like to do with our day: workout? Eat dinner? Play basketball with friends? Just eat my weight in spaghetti and watch Stranger Things till I pass out?

These decisions are what we choose to do, and when we look back at our week, and look towards Friday/the weekend, are we satisfied with our time spent each day? What we can change is almost as simple as getting up 10 minutes earlier each day, but the most effective changes aren’t the easiest to hear. Our time in our everyday lives is what makes us who we are, what I ask myself everyday is: am I designating time to what will make me happy? I don’t need to spend hours every day after work addicted to watching tv shows and realizing Frasier will end the same way, and Gilmore Girls will always make me feel nostalgia, but how come I’m not putting in the work for what I want, NOT what’s easy to do.

Everyone likes easy (free) entertainment, and while it's still good to zone out, watching a show that makes you so enveloped in the storyline, it takes your stress down a bit, I’m not benefiting myself long term to work with the time I have on my goals.

Routine in my life is key to a healthy rhythm, and my rhythm can be more functional if I’m challenging myself a little more each day, and not making excuses about how I don’t have time. We DO have time, we CHOOSE to make those easier options of tv marathons.

Choose your future, and stop making excuses things aren’t happening. You want something to happen, get that recognition? You get it yourself, and use the time you have so much of. Utilize the 24 hours better than your friends, better than your boss, better than yesterday. #committosomething