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20 Things You Can Do For Yourself If You Only Have 20 Minutes

20 Things You Can Do For Yourself If You Only Have 20 Minutes by Rachelle McKeown. Photograph of woman looking at her watch by Ana Azevedo
Photograph by Ana Azevedo

Only have 20 minutes? That’s enough time to work out, to wind down, to get creative, to learn something new, to organize your life or get some needed sleep!

If you work eight hours a day, chances are you feel like you never have enough time in the day to do everything you want to. Hell, I only work seven hours a day yet find my day disintegrating when I get out of work at 4:00. By the time I get home, cook, eat dinner, and clean up, it’s usually 7:00 and I find myself struggling to get the energy to work out, write, read, and meditate — all those healthy things I was originally planning to do. Naturally, this was making me a stressed mess because I had so much I wanted to do, yet no time to do it.

How was I supposed to sit down and write for an hour after the exhaustion of work, cooking, and cleaning up after dinner (which, I’ll argue, is also a lot of work)? 

Part of the problem with my mentality

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