You will one day scoff at the younger version of yourself who ever thought they were ‘busy’.

Before (if ever) kids to nurture, before a team of your own to build, before the responsibilities you hardly saw coming, you sometimes thought your workday was ‘busy’. In retrospect, stripped of naivety, you will eventually realise that you had no worldly idea what ‘busy’ meant.

And yet, you can look forward to the counterintuitive magic of core working hours enforced by your changing circumstance. The workaholic version of yourself will recoil, but only for a moment. What looks like a contraction of opportunity is a sharpening of focus.

Turn ‘busy’ from an assumption and into a choice.

Say ‘no’ like you have to, not because it’s supposedly a skill to master.

Your time well spent will satisfy you as much as its speed will bewilder you.

Your time wasted by that younger ‘busy’ self will fool you into retrospective regrets of “what if?”.

How might you benefit from working as if your time is rationed?

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