Kottke: Doing the Essential Things Makes Time for Everything Else

As a rule, I don’t like referencing secondary sources, but I found Kottke’s commentary as insightful as the article he references: https://kottke.org/23/08/doing-essential-things-makes-time-for-everything-else

I noticed that when I thought or said “I don’t have time for this”, what I really meant was “I don’t have the energy for this”.

tl;dr - Some things you do drain energy but have to be done. Some things which don’t have to be done return energy, and make the draining things easier. Find the things that return energy to you and find a way to make space in your life for them.