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Among the normal array of equipment in David Allen’s office, one item stands out. It is an hourglass with two minutes of sand. Any clock would serve equally well to mark the strict interval GTD gives us to process something the first time we handle it, but Allen’s hourglass is as much a talisman as a practical tool. In a medieval painting, it would symbolize death. Here, the hourglass is a symbol of virtue. It regulates our attention. It guards our self-esteem. The guru of Getting Things Done is living by the standards of the future, and his hourglass is an icon of an emerging civilization whose exacting demands we may all someday be expected to meet.

-Gary Wolf

Like an 800 calorie bag of potato chips unwittingly polished off during CSI, we often scarf down large quantities of time when we are unaware. Psychologists have demonstrated that the brain has a terrible sense of time when it is paying attention to something else, and as a result, we are most likely to mismanage and misuse time when we are the busiest.

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People whose internal clocks are tuned enough that they always wake up on time, without an alarm clock, are generally on time and on the ball. I know a few.

As a heavy sleeper, the alarm clock has been an enemy throughout my life. I associate it with breaking my sleep cycles at all the wrong points and with prematurely waking others in the house.

I’ve experimented with getting up without an alarm clock for a while, but I’m committing myself to doing it this week. I’ll report back on the experience at the end of the week, and then again at the end of the month. My goal is to decrease dependence on the alarm clock without missing important events.

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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas . . .. [His time] is long . . . because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts–or, in other words, because [he is] always enjoying it.
- Joseph Addison

In the throws of daily living we are constantly racing against time.  To many, time is the enemy, it is a property of the universe that makes us old, makes us late, and makes us insufficient.

Here is an affirmation video from us, created to help us savor time (for more information about affirmations, see here).

The affirmations are made to be read from the perspective of the first person. For example, if you read "time is on my side," you should understand the sentence as applying to you.Enjoy!

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