Frequent complaint of modern life is that we lack time… not enough hours in the day… difficulty finding time for important things… for enough sleep.

Complementary virtues¶

• orderliness
• prioritization
• punctuality

Contrasting vices¶

• chronically late
• hurried
• lacking time
• procrastination
• rushed
• tardy
• untimely
• wasting time

Virtues possibly in tension¶

• spontaneity

How to acquire or strengthen it¶

• (Psychology Applied to Modern Life) Causes of wasted time include: “Inability to set or stick to priorities”, “Inability to say no”, “Inability to delegate”, “Inability to throw things away”, “Inability to accept anything less than perfection”. Time management techniques include “Monitor your use of time”, “Clarify your goals”, “Plan your activities using a schedule”, “Protect your prime time”, “Increase your efficiency”.

Notes and links¶

• Honoring our relationship with time
• Skills You Need: procrastination
• Skills You Need: time management
• Skills You Need: time management tips
• Skills You Need: time management troubles
• 3 Time Management Tips that Actually Work
• Tips for ending procrastination
• Alan Lakein How to get control of your time and your life (1996)
• Time Management: Beat Work Overload. Be More Effective. Achieve More.->www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_HTE.htm

Mentioned elsewhere¶

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Inspirational quotes¶

• “We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.” —Seneca, On the Brevity of Life 3.2
• “It’s not at all that we have too short a time to live, but that we squander a great deal of it. Life is long enough, and it’s given in sufficient measure to do many great things if we spend it well. But when it’s poured down the drain of luxury and neglect, when it’s employed to no good end, we’re finally driven to see that it has passed by before we even recognized it passing. And so it is — we don’t receive a short life; we make it so.” —Seneca, On the Brevity of Life 1.3-4