{"id":2132,"date":"2013-05-15T09:27:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alifeofproductivity.com\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2021-12-08T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:15:55","slug":"you-dont-have-the-time-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbailey.com\/you-dont-have-the-time-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t have time for that? Bull$#!\u2020."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='et-box et-tick'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><b class=\"takeaway\">Takeaway:<\/b>\u00a0&#8220;I don&#8217;t have time for that&#8221; is BS. When something is truly important, you pull time for it from somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"readingtime\">Estimated Reading Time:<\/b>\u00a048 seconds.<\/div><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2198\" src=\"https:\/\/chrisbailey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/697890_906784091-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"697890_90678409\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>The phrase \u201cI don\u2019t have time for\u201d should never be said. We all get the same amount of time every day. If you can\u2019t do something it\u2019s not about the quantity of time. It\u2019s really about how important the task is to you. I\u2019m sure if you were having a heart attack, you\u2019d magically find time to go to the hospital. That time would come from something else you\u2019d planned to do, but now seems less important. This is how time works all the time. What people really mean when they say \u201cI don\u2019t have time\u201d is this thing is not important enough to earn my time. It\u2019s a polite way to tell people they\u2019re not worth your time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scottberkun.com\/2010\/the-cult-of-busy\/\">quote<\/a><\/span> fits well with the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Stop tricking yourself! Stop tricking yourself!\" href=\"https:\/\/chrisbailey.com\/stop-tricking-yourself\/\">self-honesty article<\/a><\/span> I posted yesterday. When you say that you don&#8217;t have time for something, what are you <i>really<\/i> saying?<\/p>\n<p>If it was truly important to you, you would have pulled the time from something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase \u201cI don\u2019t have time for\u201d should never be said. We all get the same amount of time every day., so if you can\u2019t do something it\u2019s not about the quantity of time. It\u2019s really about how important the task is to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>You don&#039;t have time for that? 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