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What you are really suffering from is not being unable to manage your time, but being unable to manage your attention – not being able to focus it consistently to achieve the results you want.

All you have to do is every evening decide on one thing you are going to do the next day without fail. Pitch its level of difficulty so that it is easy enough for you to be reasonably confident of being able to do it. Then the following day do it!

Not that procrastination is a new problem by any means. The proverbial expression ‘Procrastination is the thief of time’ is actually a quote from a poem by the eighteenth-century poet, Edward Young. And going far further back in time, the biblical Book of Proverbs gives the following graphic warning against idleness.

A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want, like an armed warrior.
(Proverbs 6:10-11)

[…] modern communication and transport have speeded life up to such a degree that we can’t keep up. Yes, the potential of our lives has been vastly expanded: we live far wider and less restricted lives than our ancestors; but what does that serve when we feel that we are being spread thinner and thinner over more and more, that the new width has been achieved at the expense of depth? Our lives may be wider but we feel, usually with justification, that they are shallower.