Where did my time go?

As I mentioned before, in my earlier blog, the really smart digital marketing folks I’ve hired to help me with promoting the book encouraged me to write a blog “at least once a week. At the least!” Well….here I am more then a month later writing my second blog. I guess I’m not really good at this stuff! Really what it boils down to is time, I’m just struggling to find the time.

Recently I’ve been setting up a table to sell books at local craft fairs and even a paranormal festival! I love this because it gets me out to talk to people I wouldn’t normally meet in my busy, crazy, overworked life! I’m forced to slow down, by having to sit in that chair for 6 hours or more! And by slowing down I get to meet other human beings! Real humans, not the ones on social media.

It’s during this time of interactions with people that I hear the same thing over and over….”Oh I’d love to read your book…if I only had the time!” or “I used to read a lot, but I just don’t have the time now.” When I hear this I realize we are all in the same boat!

During the past 8 weeks I’ve met a few other authors who’s books I’ve purchased. (Not lying, I bought them to see how my book measures up!!) Do you know how many of those I’ve actually been able to read…ONE. Why? I don’t have the time.

I also don’t have the time to turn the two bags of apples in my refrigerator into canned apple pie filling. Pretty sure they have been in there for over two weeks now, but honestly I’ve forgotten when I bought them.

I don’t have the time to actually decorate the house for fall. I did manage to pull the orange colored tote from the storage area, pop open the top and pull out a couple of candles from the top. They are on the mantle above the fireplace, but the rest of the fall decorations sit untouched in the tote. Why? I don’t have the time!

I have closets that need to be organized, the interior of my car that really needs to be cleaned, a stack of papers on my desk that need to be “gone through”, and the list goes on and on. But I don’t have the time!

So where did our time go? As near as I can tell there are still 24 hours in the day just as there always have been. Why do we feel like we don’t have time?

I thought about that this morning, as I snuggled into my recliner at 4:30 AM with my cup of coffee and the dogs on my lap. This is our morning routine. Susan lays on my lap and goes back to sleep, Douglas settles in next to me in the chair with is bone…and I pick up my phone to peruse the morning headlines. It was then that I realized I normally sit there for almost 3 hours doing that! And I usually repeat the same performance when I get home from work. After dinner I will land in that chair, with those dogs, and my phone for a good 3 hours or more!

Well land sakes a live that’s a least 6 hours of every day that I could be doing all of those things I claim I don’t have the time for!!

So if you too don’t have the time for a lot of things. Or you wonder where did all of your time go? Check your phone….it might be there!