"I don't have time."
It’s the most common lie we tell ourselves.
Not because you’re being dishonest, but because time scarcity feels so real. Your days are packed. Your to-do list never ends. The weeks blur together in a haze of obligations.
But here’s the uncomfortable truth: you do have time. You’re just spending it on things that don’t align with what you say matters most.
Everyone gets 168 hours per week. The difference between people who feel time-rich and time-poor isn’t how much they have—it’s how consciously they’re spending it.
Psilocybin often reveals the gap between your stated priorities and your actual time allocation, showing you where hours are leaking into activities that don’t serve you.
Track your time honestly for one week:
- Sleep: ~56 hours
- Work: ~40 hours
- Basic care (eating, hygiene, etc.): ~10 hours
- Remaining: 62 hours
That’s 62 hours of discretionary time every single week. Where is it actually going?
For most people: social media scrolling, Netflix autoplay, worry loops, tasks that feel urgent but aren’t important, and saying yes to things they don’t want to do.
How Psilocybin Reveals Time Leaks
Microdosing often makes you acutely aware of how you're spending moments:
You notice how much time disappears into your phone. How often you’re doing things out of obligation rather than choice. How frequently you’re busy without being productive.
Common realizations:
- "I say I don't have time to create, but I spend 2 hours a day scrolling"
- "I claim connection matters most but I barely call my friends"
- "I'm 'busy' but not actually doing what's important to me"
- "My time is going to everyone else's priorities except my own"
The scarcity isn’t real—the misallocation is.
List your top 3 life priorities.
Then track your time for 3 days.
How many hours actually went to those priorities?
Most people discover a massive gap between what they claim matters and where their time actually goes.
This isn’t about judgment—it’s about awareness. You can’t change patterns you don’t see.
The Time Abundance Shift
Time scarcity isn’t about quantity—it’s about quality and alignment:
2 hours of distracted “relaxation” feels less restorative than 20 minutes of genuine rest.
3 hours of shallow work feels more exhausting than 1 hour of focused creation.
A day of saying yes to everyone else’s needs feels longer than a day spent on meaningful projects.
Aligned time feels abundant. Misaligned time feels scarce.
What Changes When You Reclaim Your Time
- You stop using "busy" as an identity or status symbol
- You get ruthlessly selective about commitments
- You protect time blocks for what actually matters
- You say no without guilt to things that don't align
- You feel more spacious despite doing less
Paradoxically, doing less of what doesn’t matter creates time for what does.
The Microdosing Perspective
Psilocybin helps you feel the difference between time well-spent and time wasted:
Activities that nourish you feel expansive and energizing. Activities that drain you feel contractive and exhausting—even when they look productive on paper.
You start trusting these internal signals as guidance for how to spend your finite hours.
You don't have a time problem. You have a priorities problem disguised as a time problem.
The hours are there. The question is: are you spending them on what actually matters to you, or on what you think you should be doing?
Time is the one resource you can never get more of. The question isn’t how to find more—it’s how to stop wasting what you already have.
So where is your time really going?
Mush love,
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