Oftentimes when you are crafting a rhythm, you do it really badly at first. In other words,

you don't really know how much time some of this stuff really needs.

What's up, guys? Welcome to Five Minute Fatherhood. So one of the things that you have to really

wrestle with and you start living rhythmically, one of the biggest transitions people have to go through

is they have to decide how discipline they're going to be in respecting time-bounded limits

to the things that they are assigning on their rhythm. So an example is when you say I'm going to

spend an hour, you know, let's say cleaning, doing a bunch of chores

around the house, and you get into it and you end up spending two hours. Well, that has a ripple

effect on the rhythm of your week. And so what a lot of people do at that point is they throw out the

rhythm. And what they're really wrestling people do at that point is they throw out the rhythm.

And what they're really wrestling with is the tension between tasks, like a list, an endless list of tasks to-do items and a time-bounded rhythm. And our instincts are almost always to just

get the tasks done and throw ourselves at the to-do lists.

But the problem is there's no way for us to figure out while we're just buried in tasks

if we're investing too much time in any given task. And this often leads to burnout. This exact

thing happens with money. There's really two ways to handle money.

You can just throw all the money that you have and not pay attention to how much you have,

the scarcity of your budget at whatever thing you're interested in right then, this nice

restaurant I want to eat at or this item I want to buy. And the only way to stop that is through budgeting,

through giving every single dollar a name before you spend it. Now, there is an equivalence to that

with time. You can give every minute a name before you spend it. And if you do that, then you will

begin to be able to craft a much more balanced daily rhythm,

weekly rhythm, and life. But that takes a lot of discipline and the big discipline and where

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