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Never have enough time to do everything I want

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How does anyone cope with simply not having enough time? It seems like I never have enough time to do everything. And this is without even having a family

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I need 6-4 hours of sleep a day, and adds tremendous time other people don’t have. Back when I was learning to program I was constantly learning to program while working at my secondary employer and reflecting on how to do better when driving from San Antonio to Dallas. Those saved me a lot of time too. If work was slow at the primary employer I was working in side projects which also saved a lot of time. If I needed more time still I would volunteer (or voluntold) for a military deployment to Afghanistan.

I never seemed to have trouble finding extra time, and I did have a family through all of this.

Yet you have time to visit here. You have enough time.. maybe not enough energy.

This is usually what it comes down to. You need to create action items and timebox them, then act. Adhering to those actions takes energy and discipline.

Prioritize and stick with a given project until done. Then refresh priorities list, pick top one and repeat.

It is terrific having lots of interests and choices. But frantic multi-tasking just leads to burn-out and the clutter of incomplete undertakings.

I had the same problem my entire life, but recently doing much better. It seems several factors overlap and make myself turing complete procrastinator. The few of factors: adhd, too much interests, perfectionism, too much gestalts, multithreaded thinking, colorful n-dimensional infinite imagination, bored too easily, easily exhausted, flashes of "genius" ideas, lack of discipline, and so on, the easiest solution is just medication and completely giving up on everything, every project and just doing very few things and nothing else

We grow up. Or use ketamine.

List the things you want to do. Now list the things you actually did.

You’re gonna either remain convinced that lack of time is the problem or realize that you are the problem.

It’s by design. You have to make choices in life.

I have majorly had this issue since having kids particularly.

I couldn’t cope, so after a lot of soul searching, I found I just had to de prioritize things. I accepted there are some things I’d love to do but just aren’t as important, high enough ROI, etc. Hard pill to swallow.

I whine a lot and I'm on ADHD meds.

*Orbis non sufficit*

Just leave it

Yeah I bought this M5 dial hardware and thought "let me code a timer for this" but never even invested more than 1 hour into it. I didn't get to a part where I could iterate fast.

On the other hand, I did watch the whole Netflix series "baby reindeer" in 3 or 4 sits...

I log off.

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