Dear “I don’t have the time” people: You actually have plenty of time. You just choose to use it differently.
Saying “I don’t have the time to do something” is inaccurate at best, and at worst, a sign of weakness. Everyone has the same amount of time. How we choose to use it determines what we have the time to do.
“I don’t have the time” has become our new catch-all phrase for everything we simply don’t want to do, replacing “I’m so stressed.”
If you want something to be a priority in your life, you make the time for it at the expense of something you deem not as important. It’s truly that simple.
If you don’t want to give up one activity for another, don’t, that’s fine too, and no one should judge you for it. But saying “I don’t have the time” is nothing more than an excuse, because let’s face it, you do have the time.
We find the time for what we want to do most.
For some of us, that’s working out. For others, that’s building our business. Maybe it’s binge-watching Netflix, or browsing Facebook for two hours each night. And all of those are fine choices! But each choice comes with a price. Every choice we make has an opposing choice that we have to make as well. If browsing Facebook until 1am each night is a choice, then the flip-side of that choice is rarely getting up at 5am to get to the gym in the morning. It’s not that you don’t have the time to go to the gym, but rather, you made a choice to do something else that to you, is more important.
Each day, you wake up and can make that choice. When making a change, or doing something new, becomes more important to you than something else in your life, you’ll make the time for it. Until that happens, you won’t.
But don’t ever say “I don’t have the time.” Because, yes, you do. You have the same time in the day as anyone else. What you don’t have right now, however, is the desire to give something up in your life to get that time to do something else.
You have all the time you need. You always have. You simply have to decide how you want to use it.