What do I spend most of my time doing?

As I wrote in Mirror (Mere Reflections, Book 2), time is the easiest asset to spend recklessly. It’s so easy to spend it that you don’t have to do anything. With each day that comes and goes, you subtract from the finite time you have in this life.

So what you spend your time on should really be worth it, right? It sounds good logically, but the concept may be evasive practically. There are ways to put this sound logic to good use though.

Study your activity over the last couple of days, and then view that in perspective of your last couple of weeks and months. What does it say? What is it that you spend your time on the most? Is it worth its cost? Is there better use of your time?

Reflecting on your spending habits, when it comes to time, has a twofold effect (perhaps even more). You gain insight into how you allocate time to each activity you’re involved in and it also gives you a preview of what to expect in the future. The future is very much determined by your usage of time in the present. If you spend your time practicing a skill for example, you can expect a future in which you are more proficient at that particular skill.

So ask yourself these questions, regularly, to be more aware of how you spend your time; and then make decisions to better utilize this very precious asset of time that we all have in unknown quantities.