Recently I read an article published and written by David Cain on his blog site www.raptitute.com.  In his article he says:

“This elusive state of “enough time” is possible. We only need more time to budget, or fewer pursuits eating it all up.

It’s a simple equation:

Time available to you

divided by

Time required to do everything you have to do

If the result is greater than 1, you have enough time.”

This made me think.  Our ‘Time’ is consumed by our ‘Have To’s’, i.e. ‘I have to pay my bills; I have to go to work; I have to take care of my kids; I have to manage my business; I have to go to church.   So, the question I pose is, What is the source of all of our ‘Have To’s’?  The answer is simple.  Our ‘Have To’s’ are a direct result of our ‘Want To’s’. 

The great thing about being here on this blessed earth is that we have a thing called ‘Agency’, which is the ability to make choices, our choices.  We are able to choose what we want to do with the time of our lives; who to spend our time with; what to spend our time on;  when to spend time on certain things; where to spend our time doing the things we decided to do; all a result of our why we decided what we want.

In the end, if you are like myself and many of us out there who just don’t have ‘enough time’, our focus should not be on our ‘Have To’s’ but instead on our ‘Want To’s’.  Doing so will open our minds and eyes to the realization that in order to free ourselves from your our ‘time deficits’, we need to decide what matters most to us.    Focus on the vital few and  be ok with not being ‘Everything’, to ‘Everyone’.

The next time you’re given a vast amount of choices, which in today’s world we have more than a vast amount, understand that the less ‘Want to’s’ will lead you to less ‘Have tos’ which in turn will naturally equate to more time available to you!