How much of life comes down to time management? Given that we usually don’t know how long we have left to live, this seems like an important question.<\/p>\n
Assuming a fixed (but unknown) number of years X remaining in your life, how should you use those years? One perspective would be to be as efficient as possible, planning everything out and not wasting a moment, so that you can wring as much out of your time as possible.<\/p>\n
Yet another perspective would be that you should do almost the opposite: Relax, enjoy, savor every moment. Rather than spending your time building like a busy ant, you should treat yourself to a sip or two of wine and some good chocolate, wander among trees, spend your evenings simply contemplating the beauty of the sunset over a lake.<\/p>\n
I know a number of people who hew to the first philosophy, and others who embrace the second. Both types seem quite certain that they are on the best path.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, there are other factors to consider. While the remaining time X may be unknown, it is not immutable. There are lifestyles that tend to extend life, and others that shorten it.<\/p>\n
So I guess a proper answer to my original question involves weaving together these two variables: How to spend your moments, and how to increase the number of years that will contain those moments.<\/p>\n
Maybe this requires more thought. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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