Originally published on 2021-09-07.
When you are young you are dependent on others and you have few responsibilities. Therefore you do not have to spend the bulk of your time managing these responsibilities. However, as you age you increase both your independence and the number of things that you are responsible for. You want to maximize this new found independence and responsibility, and in fact I firmly believe that doing so to the best of your ability constitutes a life well lived. For further reading see my article on this topic: Maturity Matters. Unfortunatly, this comes at the expense of your personal time.
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Personal Time
Personal time is time to yourself, time where you are free from distractions from the outside world. It is the time you have each day that you selfishly alot to your selfish pursuits. If you do not make personal time a priority then you will find that you will never have time for yourself.
To illustrate how few hours most of us actually have to ourselves each day lets take a look at the typical employees’s daily schedule:
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