Never Have Time for What You Love? Do These 3 Things.

It’s not that time is scarce. It’s just hiding.

Gray Miller
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Photo by Justin Veenema on Unsplash

I’ve got a list.

It’s a looooong list. It includes dancing, figure drawing, comic-book writing, hand-lettering, woodworking, 3-d sculpting, playing ukulele, and weight training. Also, a list of books as tall as the list of podcasts is long as the “read later” rabbit holes are deep.

Do you have a list like that? I’m not talking about the “should” list; we all know we ignore that one. I mean the list of the “want-to-do” (to be fair, some are more “want-to-have-done”) things that keep getting put off by the demands of the day.

Feel like you never have enough time? That’s okay. You don’t.

Really, you don’t. You absolutely will never get to the end of that list. No one will, and that’s okay. (Insert obligatory “reach exceeding grasp” metaphor).

At the same time, you do have more time than you realize. It’s pretty much guaranteed that if you are reading these words, you live in an environment desperately trying to take up your time and attention. (Insert obligatory study about the ways the internet and media leverage intermittent reward to keep you distracted.) Even if you are focused on productivity and efficiency or minimalism or even digital…

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Gray Miller
Gray Miller

Written by Gray Miller

Gray is a former Marine dancer grandpa visualist who writes to help adults figure out what they want to be when they grow up.