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How to Rearrange Your Hours to Make the Most of the Day

Lindsey Carson
5 min readMay 4, 2019

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Photo by Malvestida Magazine on Unsplash

Earlier this week, I celebrated my one year anniversary at the company that I work for. There’s something about these types of milestones that make me so nostalgic. On these milestones, I always take a few minutes to reflect on what’s happened in my life during that time — how far I’ve come, what I’ve accomplished, what’s changed, etc. And it’s always fascinating to see how much of a difference just one year can make. With this milestone in particular, I noticed one distinctive change that has tremendously impacted both my personal life and professional life. And that change was getting a strong grasp on time management.

Time management has always been both a strength and a weakness of mine. Similar with many other people (especially those who are also living in New York City), I juggle many extracurricular activities outside of my day job. As if my current line of work isn’t overwhelming enough, I still do my best to set time aside for my passions that make me me.

However, as we all know, there are only twenty-four hours in a day, seven days in a week, and three hundred sixty-five days in a year. And that time can go by very quickly if we don’t take advantage of it.

Prior to this year, I thought that I had my routine pretty ironed out. On a typical day when I didn’t have any scheduled plans, I’d…

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Lindsey Carson
Lindsey Carson

Written by Lindsey Carson

Writer, Runner, and Mother working in Ad Tech. Trying to navigate my identity as a new parent. I write about work, relationships, culture, and life in general.

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