So much to do and so little time!

The other day, a taxi driver took a left from a petrol pump site where I was filling fuel in my car, avoiding the red signal. The traffic cop caught him and asked him why he did that. The driver answered that the signal was very long, all of two full minutes and that he didn’t want to wait. At that point, the cop asked a very pertinent question. “So if you save those two minutes, what do you plan to do with that time?” the driver just smiled and drove on but it set me thinking real hard....often we have the refrain, i am not reading enough, not exercising adequately, not meeting friends as much as I’d like to, not spending time with the family like I long to...all because “i have no time”. But the question is, if i had more time, do i know what i would do with it? Fact is, there are so many things that I dream of doing and when I think of it, I don’t know where to start! I feel overwhelmed and frustrated and I find myself getting overwhelmed rather often 
So much to do and so little time is a mind binder. It binds the mind into feeling trapped, helpless and perpetually tired. Fact is, it’s not about whether we have the time to do things, it’s how badly do you want to do them. Do you want them with a compelling desire, a hunger, a need? Or are they things we would like to think about doing  more often than not, Ii find that all the things that we say we don’t have time to do are things we have just casually thought of doing or thought of doing because it makes us feel good about wanting to do those things. We haven’t really processed the benefits of doing them and haven’t really got deep into visualizing what we’re missing by not doing them. Once this causal wish to do something gets translated into a strong need, a burning desire, there arises an impatience that’s uncontrollable. THEN we find the time to do them. We make the time to do them. But wait, once we have stirred up those passions and desires, then prepare and get ready to do them. If there’s a book you’ve decided you want to read, then buy it or borrow it, keep it with you at all times, you never know when and where you get a window of time opening up ...waiting for an appointment at the doctor, lounging at the airport, sitting at a pedicure, you can never tell! If there’s a friend you’ve been dying to meet, call him, ask when he is available and plan a time to meet him or her in advance. Else Sunday prevails on you, you have the time, you call him but he has already stepped out. Then you find yourself with another meaningless Sunday wasted.
Knowing what you want your time for and wanting that very badly and then being ready for it all when the time presents itself, will enrich our lives, slowly filing up all the gaps one important desire after another. So the next time I wish I had more time, I shall think what I want it for, and then want it VERY BADLY 