Sleep according to my body clock, not my clock. Spend two hours a day reading, painting, exercising for pleasure. Cook what I want to eat. Be less responsive to my husband’s morning churlishness. Help people going through divorce. Be more in nature. Be a foster parent or support young mothers.
The last line wrapped it up: Be in charge of my own life for the first time ever while staying married.
‘Now you know what you want, why aren’t you doing it?’
Dan had just one question: “Now you know what you want, why aren’t you doing it?” I made big changes and six months later am mad about my unemployed rich life. In a lovely symmetry, my brother left behind a national retail career to become an apprentice electrician at 52.
Before anyone starts shouting ‘‘white privilege’’, pipe down. I’ve worked since I was 15, paid stacks of tax, never troubled the public purse, bought my parents a house. I’ve earned the right to be selfish with my days and am lucky my gorgeous husband applauds that.
My like-minded friend Kate Christie drops around. A mother of three and former corporate lawyer, Kate is a time-management specialist who has worked with Deloitte, L’Oreal and the European Union in her business Time Stylers.
Time is the “great equaliser”. Learning how to manage it is crucial.Credit:Kerrie Leishman
Her bestsellers Me Time and Me First tell busy people how to find 30 lost hours a week, and her mission now is to move everyone from a time-management to a time-investment lens.
“We actually can’t manage time. It’s the great equaliser,” says Kate.
“You have the same amount of time as Elon Musk, so you have to treat it as you do money – an enormously precious limited resource to be invested for the greatest return.
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“Ask, ‘Where is my best time investment today?’ and use it to curate your perfect life. Once you map it, you can start working towards it. Stop sitting in the passenger seat waiting for opportunity to tap you on the shoulder.”
Amid the world kookiness, there has never been a better time to reassess, reimagine, reinvent.
Grab an exercise book and a pen, and acknowledge what you want and need. Then get it.
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