Ok ok,
Let’s say you have a typical life and try to live it in the healthiest way. You might allocate your 24-hour day this way:
Sleep: 8 hours
Exercise: 1 hour
Work: 8 hours
Eating: 2 hours (Really Slowly)
Hygiene: 1 hour
Travel: 2 hour
That leaves you with two hours for family time, shopping, chores, Left4Dead, Facebook, Jail-breaking your iPhone real often and so on. If you have an acupuncture appointment, or your talkative relative calls from Tirunelveli, and or Survivor has a two-hour special, you’re tapped out.
It’s a challenge to live a happy life if you aren’t giving enough attention to all of those categories, yet doing so is nearly impossible.
One time management strategy is to be independently wealthy, freeing up eight hours a day. But that option isn’t available to many. And apparently it is not fulfilling because most rich people continue to work full schedules. Another strategy is to ignore the fact that you are slowly killing yourself by not sleeping and exercising enough. That frees up several hours a day. The only downside is that you get fat and then you die slowly. A third path is to work less than you could, live economically, enjoy each day as it comes, and try not to think about living on cat food when you retire.
And yes, dreaming about withdrawing CPF at old age deducts 10 days from you life and surfing the net for Groupon vouchers deducts 30 days. Which strategy have you picked and how much life have you lost so far?
Cheers.
ps: I’m working on a fourth strategy, will publish real soon.