1371: This one’s for all us time optimists!
If, like me, your perception of time is a little bit wonky, today's episode is a very compassionate reality check!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Tuesday to you. Now, I am what I would call a time optimist. What I believe I could do in 30 minutes is nothing short of superhuman, and it is also wildly inaccurate. I remember driving home from a doctor's appointment one day and I had half an hour until my next thing and I looked at Mr. Meg and I said, right in my head, I believe that we've got enough time to to stop in Aldi and do a quick shop. Also stop in the charity shop nearby, grab a quick coffee from the coffee shop that's on our walk on the way back from the car and still have a good five minutes before my next thing started. And I think in that moment it dawned on him how my brain works and just how time optimistic I am. And I think it explained a lot.
I know I am far from alone in this. I'm not quite sure if I have adhd, so I'm gonna call it maybe hd. But I know time optimism is a very real thing for me, and if you can hard relate, then you might want to join me in my challenge today. And that is going through my to do list and allocating time slots for everything I think I'm gonna get done and see how much it actually adds up to. Knowing that most things tend to take twice as long as we imagine. Whether we're time optimists or time pessimists. It can be a really kind thing to do for yourself to look at everything you've put on your plate and see if it is actually physically possible or if we've accidentally slipped into superhuman territory. It can be a great way of not beating ourselves up because we realise, to quote my favourite Emily MacDowell quote, that maybe it's not a personal failure, but an impossible setup.
So go get the things you've got planned for today. Allocate each task a certain amount of minutes, double it and add it up, and then start deferring. Maybe it's not just okay that you don't get everything done today, but maybe it's to be expected. So let's try to be a bit kinder and fairer to ourselves, see how it goes, and I'll see you tomorrow.
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