4 Time Management Tips I Use Every Day

Reclaim lost hours through four surprising strategies you can try now

You’ve likely heard the phrase “time is relative” before. As each year passes and you grow older, it becomes shockingly more true. It’s strange, if you watch a clock ticking, you’ll note that — obviously — time is always the same. A second is a second, a minute is 60 of those. Yet it’s the way you perceive time that makes it relative. Some months fly by, while others are akin to walking through thick custard. There’s no way of pinning it down or understanding it at all, really. Time passes through us.

It can often feel as if there is nothing stopping time. The scary thing is there isn’t — it will always plough ahead, leaving everything and everyone in its wake. In amongst this sense of existential dread, there lies you, searching for an ounce of control over this celestial force. We, as humans, tried to understand time by creating clocks and calendars. Our understanding comes from the barriers we have made, the same barriers you can use to improve your time management and put the seconds back in your hands.

After all, if time is truly a construct, then understanding its mechanics will put you a step closer to making it work for you.