In Good Time… Time Management

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162 – January/February, 2023

By Laura Boynton Jobson

Each and every one of us has the same 24 hours in a day, 168 hours in a week, 720 hours every month, 8,640 hours in a year to manage everything in our time-consuming lives. Our basic survival necessities alone can drain our energy and time-bank, making life difficult to navigate. Once you add in the long hours of family drama and work commitments, and the stressful periods that friends and other relationships use up, the actual time we have left, if any, is ours to use in the most meaningful and efficient way possible.

Then there are still uncrossed to-do lists, dirty dishes in our sinks, loads of laundry to do, unswept floors, errands to run and groceries to get before we head to the barn to tackle cluttered tack rooms, murky water troughs, dust-covered tack and ungroomed horses. And if there’s enough time in the day and we’re lucky, we might be able to fit in a quick practice ride.

Since life has a way of leaving us stranded at the mounting block and out of time if we aren’t careful, our relationship with horses can be damaged by not making time with them a priority.

Streamlining Schedules

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162 – January/February, 2023