A Book That’ll Change How You Think About Time

I’m reading a book right now that’s really sticking with me, and I think it might hit home for you too: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman.

Here’s the premise: If you live to 80, you get about 4,000 weeks on this planet. That’s it.

Burkeman doesn’t offer another time hack or productivity system. Instead, he challenges us to face a hard truth, we won’t get it all done. And the goal isn’t to conquer your to-do list. It’s to finally accept your limits and focus on what actually matters.

One of the best lines in the book is a question worth carrying with you: “Does this choice diminish me, or enlarge me?”

Choose uncomfortable enlargement over comfortable diminishment, every time. There’s freedom in realizing you can’t do everything. But you can do the right things.

Here are 5 powerful questions from the book. Journal on them. Bring them into your next team meeting. Ask your spouse. They’re that good.

1. Where in your life are you pursuing comfort when what's called for is discomfort?

2. Are you holding yourself to impossible standards of productivity?

3. In what ways have you yet to accept who you are, not who you think you ought to be?

4. In which areas of life are you still holding back until you "know what you're doing"?

5. What would you do differently today if you knew salvation wasn't coming?

Let me know what hits you most, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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