Is it just me or is time moving faster?
I’m not talking about some kind of incremental one zillionth of a second thing because of the expanding universe. What I’m talking about is our daily allotment of time. You know, the amount of time we perceive we have during the course of a day in which we are able to accomplish things.

Like many people I have a routine.
I wake up, have a cup of coffee check emails, news, etc and then commence my work day. The problem is I’ll work on a couple of things look up and five or six hours just passed by!

Then I go back to work, look up again and another two and half hours have gone by! …And I don’t feel like I really got a lot accomplished.

Am I the only one experiencing this phenomenon?

I consider myself highly focused and productive. It’s just that over the last few months I’ve “felt” a slowing down of productive activity on my part while my perception of time seems to have sped up.

I feel like it’s taking more and more time to get less and less accomplished. The unnerving part is that the days really do seem to be going by faster. My perception of what used to be a week has now turned into two or three weeks.

I noticed this because I may have to put a project on hold while attending to something else and then have this rude awakening that it’s been two or three weeks when I finally get back to it.

I’ve talked to other people who have been having similar experiences. I am very curious as to whether or not this is a widespread phenomenon.

Looking back over the past few months I’ve put out more quality work than at any time in my life. Yet, I feel like I’m operating in slow motion while the days are going by faster. I’m going to investigate this phenomenon and see if it’s job related, age related, actually happening on a large scale or just me.

If this has been happening to you let me know. It would be interesting to see what the common threads are!

-Bob Baran