You Guard Your Money and Hand Out Your Hours

You guard your money like a soldier and hand out your hours to anyone who asks.You would never give a stranger your bank details — yet every day the industrialised attention economy takes hours of the only resource that can't be earned back, and we call it relaxing. Seneca made the argument two thousand years ago in On the Shortness of Life: life isn't short — we make it short by wasting it on grievances, other people's agendas, and preparation for a life we never get around to living. Benjamin Franklin ran the counter-system: a written agenda every morning, an audit every night. In this episode: the infinite scroll was built on purpose by people who understood your dopamine better than you do; the tools I use to fight back (including physically bricking my phone); why intentional rest and generous time given consciously are not waste — autopilot is; and the audit to run tonight: hour by hour, whose agenda filled yesterday?Grab my book Bridging the Gap free as an audiobook — search "Bridging the Gap Jonathan Doyle" on any podcast app.Corporate speaking and executive coaching enquiries: jonathandoyle.coA new one every morning. Don't go back to sleep.Enquire about booking Jonathan to speak:https://jonathandoyle.co/Connect with Jonathan on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jdoylespeaks/Jonathan is on Youtube here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpCYnW4yVdd93N1OTbsxgyw