As we discussed yesterday, there's 24 hours per day, and 168 hours per week.
To deploy more of your time into one arena, you must replace -- displace, if you prefer -- where that time was already going. It's not like you weren't spending that time. It was going somewhere, no matter how idle or unworthy it might have felt in retrospect.
Many things can be done much faster or streamlined or delegated, and that's always worthwhile.
But perhaps the easiest way to get a lot of time is just to render some bad usage of time impossible to do. This is the famous advice to throw away your TV, which many people followed to good result.
Perhaps the one that doesn't get talked about enough for how big of a quality-of-life-boost it gets you? Eliminating commuting. Or replacing a driving commute with walking/biking, which lets you stretch your legs and move and generally experience life more actively, or taking some sort of train or ferry which lets you read, work, and think.
You've got to start by tracking your time to figure out where it goes. Drucker talks about that; everyone talks about that who has to balance multiple spheres of action.
And what you'll find, no doubt, are lots of poorly spent time in large chunks. For me, I'm always shocked by how well my life runs when I don't have internet in the place I'm living. I wake up, and am forced to plan, think, read, write, strategize, and work creatively in the morning before jumping onto the firehose of unending information (most of which is irrelevant, of course -- but it certainly feels important).
Exercise for you -- what's the biggest sinkhole of time you have weekly that doesn't add much to your life? And then, how do you render it impossible to have happen -- not just decide to quit, but render it impossible? Do share in the comments.