Wasting time

It was groundhog day recently and someone asked the question if you could’ve done yesterday over again what would you do differently?

(I believe they were inspired by the movie where Bill Murray is doomed to live the same day over and over again.)

I said I would cut out the inane YouTube videos. They were not a great use of time, in fact I would go so far as to say they were a waste of time.

While I may regret those few minutes wasted, I think they play an important part in productivity.

I think if you tried to squeeze the maximum amount of productivity out of every second of every day then you would implode.

I think breaks, down time and wasting time are necessary to stay on an even keel and avoid burn out.

So yes if I could have that day back I would maybe replace the YouTube time with reading or drawing, something more beneficial to me, but I wouldn’t replace it with work.

I like my sanity.