Our time is important. It’s a scarce resource. One we often spend haphazardly.

Yes, we’re allowed time off. Yes, we’re allowed breaks. I’m not suggesting that every second of our time must be spent on something deemed productive. Too much time in productivity mode and not enough in rest mode will see us run down and unable to continue.

No, I’m talking about something else. Proportional time. The time we spend on a task should be more or less depending on how important it is to us. Or the impact it has on our lives.

If we spend a lot of time on something we are saying it’s important to us. If we don’t spend a lot of time on something we are saying we don’t care about it.

It is easy to get confused and spend the wrong amount of time on something. Sometimes we become trapped spending time on something we don’t care about. More often we spend too little time on the things we say are important to us.

It’s important to take a moment every now and again to realign how we spend our time.

The proportion is important.