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Busy people often neglect family, health, and personal goals without realizing it.

Time-boxing your personal life helps you reclaim it before it disappears.

Research shows that scheduling leisure can reduce enjoyment, but not acting is worse.

Imagine a busy professional who wants to spend more time with her young kids. But she keeps getting urgent notifications on her phone and telling them, "Just a moment, honey." After a while, she looks up, surprised to find that her kids have left.

Imagine a different, equally busy creative worker who wants to learn a new language. Every time you talk to him, he mentions this goal. It has been the same goal for 10 years, and he has never gotten around to it. There is always so much to do.

Imagine a third, just-as-busy executive who is worried about her health and wants to eat better. Yet several times per week, she ends up grabbing fast food for lunch and dinner and gulping it down in a hurry while slumped over her laptop.

It will not take much effort to come up with similar examples from your own experience. Many of us are, and feel, extremely busy on a day-to-day basis, and cave under the pressure (real or perceived) to just do more, even at the expense of family, friends, hobbies, personal goals, and health. The consequences are lack of life satisfaction, neglected families, and persistent health problems. So if this is you, it is time to take........

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