What do we say we don’t work out? Don’t work extra on the side? Don’t spend more time with our family? When we won’t try something new at work?

“I don’t have the time.”

That’s a LIE. What we’re really saying is “I won’t make the time.”

We’re saying “I won’t take control of my life, I will let my job, my email, my children, my boss, my friends and my TV tell me how to spend my time and make decisions for me because I don’t want to think.”

Our behavior won’t change until we make decisions to be in control of our time. Control and management requires thinking and planning ahead. It means making a plan and carrying it out instead of doing what feels good. It’s the difference between being an adult and a child.

We talk about freedom, but are we really free?