How to buy time

Hi Konrad,

This is a great question because it is about a problem everyone deals with, whether they are students or not.

Rich or poor, healthy or sick, employed or unemployed, we all have just 24 hours in a day till we die. Once you really accept that, it becomes clear there isn't time to do everything that interests you. And that is when you will start to prioritize your actions in your life. Prioritizing helps you to accomplish the things that are of the highest value to you.

In order to effectively prioritize you need to know what you want to accomplish, figure out the actions necessary to accomplish your goals and you need to keep track of how you are spending your time: If you don't spend time doing the actions necessary to accomplish your goals, you aren't going to accomplish them. A corollary to this is that if you don't pay attention to what you spend your time on, you are less likely to spend your time doing the actions necessary to accomplishing your goals, because it is easy to get distracted and takes effort to stay focused.

For example, when I was a college student my goal was to really understand the subject matter. I quickly figured out that the action most important in accomplishing my goal was to to spend time studying, because the more time I spent on studying the more I learned and retained. However, I also needed to work to support myself, I found I needed eight hours of sleep to function well at school, studying and work and there were some little things that worried and distracted me from concentrating on my goals if I didn't tend to them regularly.

So for a couple of years my priority list looked like this:

1. Take care of my health: Sleep eight hours a day, eat healthy and exercise regularly.

2. Pay my own way: Keep my job, pay bills when they come in/on time, don't rack up any debt.

3. Study: Attend all classes, take notes, take advantage of commuting time on bus to study/read, do all homework in a timely manner and challenge myself to do it well.

4. Do household chores efficiently: Stay up to date/don't let messes sit or clutter accumulate, do laundry while studying or doing homework at home, wash dishes once a day only.

5. Socialize and have fun: but not at the expense of my top four goals and the activities that support them!

I set up my life so that I integrated the things I wanted to do with the things I had to do and many times found I could make a virtue out of something I had to do. For example, I wanted an apartment with reasonable rent in a safe neighborhood, but this meant I had to live quite a ways from my school and job, and having to commute two hours a day. So I used the commute to study: sometimes I read a textbook, sometimes I reviewed notes and sometimes I planned out how to tackle an assignment and made notes on it. Also, my bus didn't take me directly to my school and place of work, so I had to walk the rest of the way in order to get to classes and work on time: voila! regular exercise built into my day.

Now I'm not saying I stuck to this priority list every day, but it was darned close, because once I started regularly doing the activities associated with my goals I could see I was making faster progress on accomplishing my goals than before. And that made me look for other more efficient uses of my time and incorporate them into my activities. And that made me use my time more efficiently and accomplish my goals faster, which made me look for other more efficient uses of my time and incorporate them into my activities... and so on and so forth.

I hope my experience will be a help to you and give you some new ideas about how to use your twenty-four hours a day to accomplish your goals. Wishing you well,

Melissa

I agree . No matter who we are, everyone have 24h in a day . We can take off 8hours for sleeping purposes. I believe if somebody is wealthy, he can enjoji pretty much anything yet, he will lake with time too. But over the time, he can .

Prioririzing in my life , or maybe in students life too , its kind of messed up i believe , or at least for me.

Like you said, in order to prioritizine , you need to know what you want to acomplish. Well, i want to get technical in the word of technology, and do business. Yet , i want to go university that will require me AAA a-levels... which i dont care about, nor i care about the degree .. i just want to go univeristy, and a good one, people will be different, and yet, i dont have really any friends nor social life. So thats my plan too. But i want to stay or be with people tahth think positive and work hard as well as can have fun.

For now im going to quit college, study at home, and of course , go to a low job to earn. My plan is to study programming too. I have my own website, im learning PHP now, yeet, i could make off static webistes, but that needs marketing and somebody need to find me out. So that means if i can earn as a freelancer to support my self, that would be awesome.

Yet, i really care about programming and business. I dont really care about the degree or prestige... i prefer to do what i like , but yet i want go to uni. I want and i will study at home academic subjects. Plus i believe in three years, having almost 4 year programming experiencen when applig to uni, i believe that gonna be a bonus. I want go to computer science, yet with 4 years of programming experience... thats why im thinking about eletronic stuff .

College here , are really bad, useless and scams. There are good lessons, where the teacher know the stuff and can teach, but thats rare. School are the thing , you cant miss school , and that a fact. College on tehe other hand, is a must to miss.. and you have to take care of your self, yet, somebody said to me, that not everyone are like me and thats why college is the way it is...

I do try to take care of my sleep, and food. yet i go sleep random times. Now its 00:25 im in UK. Why? thes the time i can go on pc as i cant go in the day .. familiy problems etc.. food, theres just not enough or rather not for me to eat..

1. Thats what i want to do. xd

2. Studing , actually, i dont care about money, ool thing is about study whole life, i would like to know how to cook one day.. but it just doesnt interest me . I just wnat o learn it, im interested in a way , if i have time , and money, then i will want to learn how to cook, plus , eben if i had a staff that will cook for me, i still wna tto know how to cook . If you know what i mean by that.

I want to make socialising a part ofthe life. Maybe thats said as im alone for 7 years (im 18 on 6 may btw) and it might effect, but i just want to know peole and stuff . Im lucky now as whats happening to me and i train martial arts etc.. and therees a girl shes almost 21 years and she really helped, me without her, i would probabaly end up bad right now : p since well, im 18 years, and then im kicked out and the law is with it etc.. complicated. But really, i know her for even like a month , two, shes really nice, and beautiful too. And she helped me soo much and did stuff that others , or rather no on ever did to me really . And she spend quite a bit of time on me too , and shes stuidng in uni . Basically she try to find some time : p and who does that reall?

Im going to college 1h one way ( 2h both) . So i decided to read book and i dont think thats a waste of time actually, plus on te bus, different view, yet true sometimes people can be loud and stuff.

Whenever i walk, i try to think about stuff, and well, i dont think if i waste time or not as then i get lost anyways with it. Same as im on the bus, i have nothing so i try to think about the code, till i get there, but i do get lost , its hard.

Sure it helped me and yet, it opened my eyes more too . As well as said everyone have 24h , everyone will end up in one place , but lets not talk about that, it drives me mental : p im sure i wont it be true . Just .. thinking am not on earth and then i desapera and go with my spirit up ? like .. just ..

I kind of wrote the answer bad : p

Thank you for your answer. wow your a female xd