If you want something done, give it to someone who is very busy

I wrote about my first son (who we had October of last year) and the amount of patience, organization, and juggling having a little tiny human taught my wife and I. It was like a crash course for adversity:

The sheer number of things that can go wrong with an infant are infinite and the amount of insatiable screaming that accompanies the sleep deprivation is tantamount to water-boarding. Want an ISIS agent to divulge information? Give him a newborn to take care of.

But the real lesson here is that I instantly found gratification in serving my little boy and that spilled into everything else in my life. All the tasks I was doing differently?—?or additionally I should say?—?forced my normal routine to become more efficient and compact. I had to decide and execute faster, or else I would fail.

I instantly found gratification in serving my little boy and that spilled into everything else in my life.

Typical day at home: feeding the baby (3x10=30 min), changing diapers (3x10=30 min), nap time (3x10=30 min), bath time (20 min), bed time (15 min), play time, feeding myself, bathing myself— oh and don’t forget working and other chores like laundry.

When every aspect of your life, including waking up, is an absolute fiasco, you have to plan appropriately, coordinate all the parts and execute that plan.

If you only have 16 hours in a day to accomplish 20 hours of work, you have to work faster or things fall through the cracks. That means changing your lifestyle a bit but, for the most part, people do not change. I don’t think we really changed. We just had to expedite our task-management.

If you only have 16 hours in a day to accomplish 20 hours of work, you have to work faster or things fall through the cracks. That means changing your lifestyle a bit but, for the most part, people do not change. I don’t think we really changed. We just had to expedite our task-management.

If you only have 16 hours in a day to accomplish 20 hours of work, you have to work faster or things fall through the cracks. That means changing your lifestyle a bit but, for the most part, people do not change. I don’t think we really changed. We just had to expedite our task-management.

If you only have 16 hours in a day to accomplish 20 hours of work, you have to work faster or things fall through the cracks.