Happy Memorial Day to everyone in the U.S.—and thanks to all who serve (everywhere). I love writing this newsletter for you each week! If you have a quick moment: hit the “heart” button above or below the post. This allows more people to discover it. 🙏 What If You Could Work Only One Hour a Day?If you had to radically reduce your time spent on work, how would you handle it?
One time I had bronchitis, and it lasted for more than a week. I spent a good portion of each day sleeping—and probably a fair amount of each day complaining about being sick. Of course, I still had to work some of the time. My energy level was constantly low, but every so often I’d muster enough strength to trudge through a few tasks or half-heartedly reply to messages before crashing on the couch for another long nap. Sometime around then is when I thought of the question: “What if I physically couldn’t work more than one hour a day?”In this scenario, the hour-a-day workload isn’t a benefit, designed to set you free to sit on the beach all afternoon or whatever it is people think of doing when they aren’t at work. Instead, it’s a requirement. You get one hour to do your work, no more. After your hour of power concludes each day, you have to wait another 23 hours before resuming. Without a doubt, I realized that this would be a big problem for me. I was already struggling with keeping up with what I’d taken on while I was healthy and energized. If I had to reduce the available time to a single hour a day, I’d need to make much more radical choices. Most of all, I’d have to face the classic creator’s dilemma:
And I wouldn’t want to choose! It would be … a tough choice. At the same time, it might lead to some sort of breakthrough. By working such limited hours, I’d have to get much better at separating non-essential work from the key things that truly mattered. Fortunately, I made a full recovery from my bronchitis week. But every once in a while since then, I’ve been thinking about the challenge and potential benefit of such a strict limitation. If you had to work only one hour a day, and could do no more—how would you spend it? Note: You could also consider this thought exercise with non-work activities, or with any other amount of time. What if you had to fit in a workout in less than 15 minutes? What if you had to plan a big trip, and instead of researching options for weeks, you gave yourself a two-day deadline to have everything booked? You get the idea. Constraints can be helpful in helping you avoid using all the time available to you. See also:
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