18 Ways To Use Your Time Better

What if today was your last day?

Darius Foroux
Personal Growth
Published in
5 min readMar 25, 2020

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The way I see it, there’s only one silver lining in the coronavirus crisis we’re currently facing: We have a lot of extra time on our hands.

While it’s in no one’s interest that the world is on its back, on an individual level, we now have the opportunity of a lifetime if we’re healthy. Look at it this way. ALL your plans for the next 3–6 months are canceled. You only have today.

We’re forced to live day by day. In fact, most of us live hour by hour. We’re glued to our phones and TVs. We need to keep up with the news. But is that really necessary? You now have seas of time. Is that the best use of that precious time?

Think about this for a minute. Eventually, life will get back to normal. We will all go to the gym, restaurants, office, and so forth. We will visit our family and friends in their homes. We will shake hands again.

When all this is over, will you be satisfied with the way you’re currently spending your days?

Be brutally honest with yourself. Until last week, my answer was no. Like millions of others, I consumed the news all day. At some point, the message was clear.

But I kept on watching. Why? The answer is obvious: The shock of the news causes confusion. We don’t know…

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Darius Foroux
Personal Growth

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