Lately I’ve been struggling to find time. Between school, juggling practice, blogging, lifting, and club soccer I’ve forgotten the definition of free time.
On an average day I’ll wake up, go to school, come home, eat a snack, practice juggling rings and clubs, head off to soccer, come home, practice juggling balls, and then attempt to squeeze in a blog post before bed.
In short, I have been, and am going to be extremely busy for another month or so until school lets out for the summer.
It sounds ironic, but the great thing about having a packed schedule is that I’m able to get a lot done. We tend to make our tasks take about as long as the time we’ve allotted for them so I haven’t been wasting much time recently.
Besides using my time more productively I’ve also learned to take naps while in the car, study spanish whenever I complete my classwork early, and read while eating.
Basically, I’ve been working to optimize the use of every second through out my day, and until yesterday I thought I’d done everything I could do to fit in all my daily work.
But I hadn’t. At first it seemed that I had accounted for every last minute and that I couldn’t possibly find more time to work on my goals, but I was wrong.
Then it hit me. I could skip lunch during school and simply eat during my classes.
I shied away from the idea at first, because by skipping lunch I would be breaking a school rule. But then I thought, who cares?
Even if I was caught skipping lunch to juggle, what’s the worst that could happen? A teacher telling me I need to quit juggling and head to lunch?
So, being the adventerous daredevil I am, I decided to skip lunch. Sure enough, within five minutes a teacher walking through the hallway saw me and said I needed to go to lunch.
I showed him what I was working on and he just laughed and continued on his way.
Several other teachers walked by and watched me for a couple minutes, but none of them bothered me.
Today, several people complimented my juggling, and none of them even mentioned the fact that I was supposed to be at lunch.
It’s crazy that I almost followed a rule that negatively affected me just because everyone else was conforming to it.
I’ve gotten some strange looks, but the response to my juggling has been overwhelmingly positive. More importantly, I’ve earned myself an extra 30 minutes per day.
Always be on the lookout for new ways to improve your life because regardless of how much lifestyle optimization work you’ve done, you’ll often find simple changes in the most obvious of places.
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