The Gift of Time

I read this article today, "Resolved: Writing is a job" by Ann Pratchett, and I felt both vindicated and inspired. It is hard to develop a discipline around time. I am addicted to email, and that sucks up many hours of every day. I have read all the articles about how we're most effective when we only check our email two to three times a day (I just spent five minutes writing this sentence because I checked my email in the middle of it!). But to be fully our best selves, we need to operate not out of habit, but out of what we have determined is our personal best practice best on our priorities based on our values. I'm currently reading the book The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, which makes it clear that we are slaves to our habits until we actively take control of them. That is exactly what Ann Pratchett did, and that is what I plan to make the project of my fall. Time is a gift that I seek to squander no more!