I Don't Have Time For This Or That! "I don't have time" who has never said that? I think it's our favorite answer when we're asked questions such as: "Why don't you exercise?", "why don't your read more often?" or "why don't you learn a foreign language?", for instance. We are often complaining about lacking time to do important things, but when it comes to cell phones and Internet we happen to have plenty of time to spend on, don't we? So "I don't have time" often means "It's not a priority". I saw this great presentation on TEDTalks yesterday about time management. After watching it, I realized two things: one, I've wasted a lot of time with unimportant things and two, I have time to spare. The presenter talked about a studying she did by looking at the schedule of successful people to figure how they manage their time As a result what she found was that even those extremely busy people had time for things that really matter, they sometimes just don't treat them as priorities. Furthermore, she also gave tips and strategies on how to manage our time. Firstly, we have to reflect for a moment and try to find our priorities. Then we put them first in our schedule, this way we dedicate more time to fulfilling such tasks. Secondly, we look at the weeks ahead of us and see where we can plan them in. Therefore, I think to accomplish anything in life we must have planning and strategies. This goes for time as well, everyone has time to do anything, no matter how busy one is. The question is: are you dedicating time to what's important? Once we have a plan, things fall into place nicely and suddenly we have to time for the good stuff.