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There Is Not Enough Time In A Day
People are always cramming more things into the day, and i find that i just run out of time and cannot fulfill my plans for that day!! Does everyone find this, because of this i go to bed later and get up earlier so i am always tired, does everyone find this?
 F18Aviator  02 Apr 2008 14:50
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Yer i neva get time to finish assignments and i am failing
 
 wtfroflpop  07 Jun 2008 04:32
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 Perhaps intelligence is a factor that's not contributing to the onset of passing grades. Alongside effort and inefficient time management skills?

Just joking.
by  verum
 29 Aug 2008 01:27
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It feels that way. And on this site, the hours seem to slip faster.
 
 Stranger  28 May 2008 22:47
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These days so much is expected from everyone. You add a husband and kids to the mix and you got more things to add to your plate. Work can naver get enough of you and the expectations from employers to stay later should be banned. Employees have families and other things that need a attention too. You must have a way to work your hours and then leave. Kids have after school activities and they require help with homeworl and baths and bed. Then you have to make time for your significant other. In reality, usually people have an average amount of 3 -4 hours per day after work for everything else. How can you cram kids, actibvities and husbands into 4 hours. There does need to be more time in the day for everyone to be satisfied. Going to bed later and waking up earlier is not good for your health. To stay healthy, you need a least 8 hours of sleep a night. So, to balance all of this, you must make a better schedule.And if you cannot complete everything, than don't worry about it. You can only do so much.
 
 curious  18 Apr 2008 03:35
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Totally. I never get to do anything but school, chores, homework, and sometimes get in some practice with one of my instruments.
 
 im_trumpet  09 Apr 2008 19:58
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There isn't I'm constantly cramming exams ahhhh
 
 jmacluva  08 Apr 2008 02:02
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In the West people are chronically sleep-deprived. They go to work or class tired and end up performing sub-optimally in whatever it is they do because of this lingering tiredness. Many accidents result from this in industrial settings and on the road. If people are forcing themselves to do without a full quota of sleep, it's clear that they must feel the need to be extremely busy.

Humans, in general, sleep for a third of their lives. This is obviously, in evolutionary terms, a blunder. Why do we need to spend a third of our lives unconscious? Apart from anything else, it means we can't properly fend off predators one third of the time. Evolution should have found a better way. Or, if there was a magical being designing things, he should have found one.

If we ask what useful purposes does sleep fulfil, we might conclude that it is responsible for long-term memory encoding (through dreaming), and body repair (if you suffer an injury, it's only really while you're asleep that healing takes place). It just seems incredibly inefficient that we need to devote one third of our lives to these purposes.

Maybe one day we will find a chemical way to fend off the need for sleep artificially. It will be interesting, then, to see what difference staying awake continually actually makes.

There was a French guy who claimed he had stayed awake for 11 years, but, personally, I am sceptical of this claim. I decided to try it once myself a long time ago but only managed to stay awake for an extra two or three hours before it became too much.
 
 Hidell  03 Apr 2008 03:35
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See comment above, this debate isn't about the amount of time in a day, but the amount of things people are trying to cram into it!
 
 F18Aviator  02 Apr 2008 14:51
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 Cannot fulfil your plans? probably you idle away your time, now i have a question: what are the things you are busily engaged in seeking?
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 02 Apr 2008 16:32
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If the day was 10 times as long, we would have the same complaints.
 
 tinseldove  19 Feb 2009 02:07
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It really depends on what you do during the day. If at school then the day should be considerably shorter, but when at home playing games or on holiday then yes it should be. The saying 'when you're having fun time flies by' should be reversed so the more fun you are having the longer the time seems. That'd be so much better
 
 Tromanator  02 Oct 2008 10:32
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F18....with what you've said, you've focused on the problem quite enough, now YOU come up with ways to make it work the way you want. Be open minded and explore ways to make your life work easier.
Myself, if I'm tired a lot, I meditate...20 minutes is like a couple of hours sleep after you've done it for awhile.
I have to do a lot of reading, so I photoread, which is much faster, and your comprehension is better. I tend to read 4 or 5 books at a time, cause I get bored easy.
I don't know what you do in a day, so you have to look at your life and see what will make it work.
 
 paladen  29 Aug 2008 01:51
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Why have time, why not go by light and darkness. I do.
 
 keepmindok  29 Aug 2008 01:23
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There is enough time in the day, it's how you use your time that changes how much you achieve
 
 nickwhan  05 May 2008 11:30
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Personally it would be great here and there to have an extra hour to get something done but you have to ask yourself what is more important a couple of tasks getting done or your health. More people need to learn to relax and organize there schedules so that they work with the hours available. If its not a life or death issues work on it the next day and get that extra couple of hours of sleep. When you are planning out your day do the things that HAVE to get done first, that way you are not scrambling at the end of the day. I won't lie there are days where my best laid plans go to hell in a hand basket but Ive learned not to stress about it because there are other days.
 
 Untoldrose  11 Apr 2008 22:19
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There is a thing called planning. And planning can save time and increase productivity. This is valid for an organization and its also valid for a human being. If a person knows he/she cant do this much work in a days time than obviously he/she should reduce the work load for the coming day on paper or in his/her mind before going to bed. Problem is not scarcity of time its the misuse of it.
 
 Proactive  03 Apr 2008 16:11
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I suppose so... There is so much out there to do in this modern day. But sorry to say you can't change how long a day is: 23.934 hours. I suppose you could wait 1 million years for the gravitational drag of the Sun and Moon to slow the Earth's rotation by a 1 minute and 2 seconds...
 
 Dan4096  03 Apr 2008 12:21
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 Haha
by  Hidell
 03 Apr 2008 16:17
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There's enough time in a day... Just don't wake up at 11 o'clock in the morning and you'll get enough time in your day! Otherwise, tell me when you'll find the way to get a 30h day... :P
 
 pocloutier  02 Apr 2008 19:29
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I think that there is enough time in a day! You just have to use it wisely.
 
 isabella33  02 Apr 2008 16:55
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At the moment there is too much time in the day. I wish a day consisted of a solitary hour for the next few weeks so my slipped disc would repair itself quicker.
 
 StBalders  02 Apr 2008 16:53
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THERE is ENOUGH TIME IN A DAY. IT IS IN OUR ATTITUDE FOR IT THAT MATTERS.
Just imagine how mess its going to be if there's no time limit. The way time is designed is really fantastic. Adjustment of time is a big challenge in our life
 
 s416  02 Apr 2008 16:28
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 Anyways,the limit of time makes any work we do interesting-isn't it?
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 02 Apr 2008 16:31
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