Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
by Oliver Burkeman

Assuming you live to be eighty, you’ll have had about four thousand weeks. Certainly, you might get lucky: make it to ninety, and you’ll have had almost 4,700 weeks. 

The real problem isn’t our limited time. The real problem—or so I hope to convince you—is that we’ve unwittingly inherited, and feel pressured to live by, a troublesome set of ideas about how to use our limited time, all of which are pretty much guaranteed to make things worse.

It follows from this that time management, broadly defined, should be everyone’s chief concern. Arguably, time management is all life is.

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