“I don’t have the time.”
I’ve heard that often from coaching clients who insist that they are so busy with pressing tasks that they couldn’t possibly carve out time for long-range thinking. And then I remind them that they made time over 15 weeks to meet with me. Why can’t they preserve those time blocks into the future? (or you do the same with the time you dedicated to X project/holiday preparation/meeting prep, etc.)
People claim not to have time for relationship-building, yet when confronted with an illness or a must-attend funeral, they somehow clear their calendars to attend. Many say they are too busy to take a vacation, but if they won an expense-paid trip to Hawaii next week, I’ll bet most would find a way to rearrange their schedule.
The bottom line is that you will never find the time, and you can almost always make the time for what you truly value. You have the time for what you deem to be important. Saying otherwise is just an excuse.
