Tuesday, 21 February 2006

An extra hour

I realised a number of years ago that there was too much to do and too little time to do it. Perhaps my clearest understanding came when I understood that most of us probably have about one unallocated hour each day.
What to do with it? Some of the things I have tried to devote that hour to have been:
  • Spend an hour learning, French, German, Italian...even of late Indonesian
  • Translating the week's OT lesson from the Hebrew
  • Translating somthing similar out of Greek
  • Praying
  • Meditating
  • Walking
  • Exercising
  • Writing poetry
  • dealing with correspondence
  • keeping my finances in order
  • reading
  • writing a novel
  • learning how to use MSAccess datbase
  • designing a webpage
  • learning Visual Basic
  • gardening
  • playing the piano
  • drawing
  • ....and so on
My efforts have largely been short lived though some have had more success than others, and in some cases I have made alternate arrangements
And so it goes on....of course the key would be to add an extra day to the week or maybe just recognise that I need to do nothing for an hour each day. But that's a bit terrifying!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Verily Stephen your problem is all too familiar to me, except that to my sorrow I don't remember ever having the understanding that I myself had one unallocated hour each day. A Past Parish Priest, upon being invited to advise me, once responded with t
counsel that I "look at [my] priorities". The suggestion seemed entirely appropriate and I did not hesitate to try to act upon it. It was not long however before I reported back to the PPP with the honest observation: "O. Getting my priorities right
s not so much the 'answer' as the 'problem' ". And to this day the problem just won't go away. Anyhow, it's quite a comfort to be reminded that I am not on my own in this respect!. I thank you opening up another window on life. Yours Truly, Anon.