Therefore, more than ever before, focus is vital. Uninterrupted time is the portal through which we now succeed. Not the flurry of multitasking and chaos.

And the addictive seduction of information is huge. It calls us. We may be alone, in silence and solitude, creating something powerful and new… and then: little dings and beeps and clicks from our devices call to us, like little tiny bartenders asking, “Can I pour you another?”.

It’s so easy to feel important and busy as we scurry like insects along linear time. One hour after another gets strung along. We are strung along and then we back away feeling strung out.

Our only hope is non linear. It’s certainly not in the old-fashioned time-management tools. It’s not the route of anally-retentive linear organizing of task lists. But rather a rising up. A better use of this moment now, this eternal moment.

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— Steve Chandler, Time Warrior: How to defeat procrastination, people-pleasing, self-doubt, over-commitment, broken promises and chaos