Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever!

— Horace Mann

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Time is the only thing spent without any record of the transaction. Money leaves a trail and an hour leaves nothing, which is why you can lose several in an afternoon and be unable to say afterwards where they went. Nothing is recoverable and no search will bring them back. The loss is real precisely because it is so quiet.

Try accounting for one day in half-hour blocks, written down as it happens rather than reconstructed afterwards. It is tedious and it is only one day. What you learn about where your hours actually go will change more than any resolution about discipline.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Where did your two best hours yesterday actually go?

MORE IN TIME, MORTALITY & LEGACY

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.