Why You Should Never Make Up For Lost Time

Lukas Schwekendiek
3 min readMar 27, 2023
Photo by Who’s Denilo ? on Unsplash

Life happens fast.

We spend our time trying to get by, learn more, and look back with that extra knowledge seeing how we lived life and we regret the time we spent.

Most of us simply waste too much time in the speed at which life happens.

We look back and then try to make up for the time we spent, but realize very quickly that we can’t.

What is lost is lost.

Yet we try anyway.

We set up New Year’s Resolutions to do twice of what we planned to do last year, try to work four times as hard, and hit the gym more often than the Bodybuilders to make up for lost time.

We start fast, accelerating to incredible speeds through the motivation we have, and then burn through our fuel reserves so fast that within a month we crash.

But with the constant threat of wasting even more time always on our mind we try to work and distract ourselves when we do not have the energy anymore.

Never taking the time to recharge we eventually burn out even more and need more distractions as we realize we cannot work at the levels we set for ourselves.

By the time the end of the year comes we look back at the resolutions we made and look back with that same regret we had…

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Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"