How many times have you had the sensation of times that flies away quickly?
During the Christmas holidays, the usual sentence comes over:
Look, in a blink, we're gonna be on the beach!
And it seems to be incredibly right.
Considering that we have the time to breathe more than 20 thousand times every day, I believe this feeling strongly depends on how we experience situations and manage time, not on the amount of time we have.
First of all, we're losing our ability to remember moments. I can notice this behaviour myself. What's the first thing you do during the break at the movie theatre? The choice falls either opening Facebook or opening Instagram! The problem is that the screen in front of our faces is the same whether at the cinema or in the mountains, and we remember the screen, not the cinema or the mountains. We then cluster together "memories of the screen" regardless of where we are, missing all those little things that help us remember that moment. This mechanism gives us the impression that days are short, but the problem is that we cannot stick moments anymore in our minds. The less we remember, the shorter the days seem to be.
Secondly, we are often incapable of organising our time. Days pass through without us even noticing. It helps me a lot to have a routine and set daily goals the night before. As Jordan Peterson says, "Your routine doesn't have to be extreme. You can set your alarm every morning at 11, but please, stick to it". The same applies to the goals. Setting your intention the night before saves you a lot of stress in the morning when you're usually tired and bored.
Many successful entrepreneurs divide their days into three abstract days. They schedule the first day from 6 am to noon, the second from noon to 6 pm and the third from 6 pm to midnight. They state there's no need to have days 24 hours long and that we cannot carry any task for more than 5-6 hours. Men like Elon Musk divide their days into slots. They have slots x minutes long (if I'm not mistaken, Musk uses 15-minute slots) and try to fit every activity in one or two of them!
What tricks do you use to experience every day and to manipulate the concept of time?