No tombstone ever read:
“Here lies a man who would have done something great, but he was too busy and went along to get along.”
I was raised in a household where “I don’t have time” wasn’t allowed.
The only acceptable phrase was: “I don’t want to make time.”
And that’s the truth no one wants to admit.
If something matters, you make time. No exceptions.
Time doesn’t discriminate—not by race, religion, income, or job title.
We all get the same 24 hours.
Yet even the smartest people fool themselves into thinking they’re the exception.
You’re not overwhelmed because you have too many goals or responsibilities.
You’re overwhelmed because you believe those goals and responsibilities are in conflict with each other.
It’s not your schedule that’s the problem—it’s the mental clutter.
Let me ask you:
How many times have you said, “I’ll get to that next month when things slow down”?
I caught myself saying that—over and over—about writing.
Because writing hits differently.
It’s not like audio or video, where you can blame the algorithm or risk getting canceled.
It’s just you, your thoughts, and the page.
And honestly? I kept telling myself “I’m not a writer.”
Which is exactly why this blog exists.
This is what I call the Future Busy Fallacy—
the belief that life will somehow calm down later,
so you keep pushing what matters further down the road.
What’s helped me most is reverse engineering the outcome I want.
Is it perfect? No.
Do things always turn out how I imagined? Not really.
But it gets me a lot closer than reacting on autopilot.
You can’t just react to life—you have to design it.
Otherwise, you’re just a passenger in your own story.