These days it seems there is always more things to do in a day than time allows. From getting ready for school/work in the morning, putting in the hours in the office, after school sports/activities, preparing dinner, helping with homework, eating dinner, cleaning up, getting a workout in, and spending some focused family time. Just thinking about the list can be tiresome.

Wouldn’t it be great if there were some tried and true ways to get your time back and get more done? Well, lucky for you, through years of research and observation I’ve compiled the most effective methods to get more done in your day.

Make Friends with Superman

I shouldn’t be gender biased, so I’ll assume Supergirl would also be an appropriate stand in. It has been documented that Superman can actually fly around Earth at such rapid speeds it reverses the directional spin and thus reversing time. By completing such an action, then doing a quick turn and putting the spin in the proper order, he is able to rewind the day.

The strategy is simple, first make friends with him. Then, when the moment strikes which you need to make more out of the time you have, just say so and as any good friend would, he will fly right to it. If you’re not good at making friends check out my post on ‘how to make friends’ and apply one of those tactics. Guaranteed success!

Of course, before you make friends you’ll need to locate Clark Kent first. He doesn’t operate with superhuman speeds in front of people so he may be easier to track down. If you’re just not comfortable cyberstalking Mr. Kent to find his whereabouts and then applying some guaranteed tactics to making friends, you can alternatively look into becoming Super yourself.

This will require relocating to a distant planet that has an alternate heat source that in-turn makes you Super powered as well. Unfortunately this part of the plan becomes tricky. Your busy life requiring those super powers to reverse orbit of the Earth is in fact on Earth and upon your return you immediately lose your newly gained superpowers. If anyone has suggestions on how to retain the super powers, perhaps in temporary form, so they can be ingested and leveraged for as-needed orbit reversing skills, please share in the comments.

Step into the Quantum Leap

It has been years since Dr. Beckett made his first groundbreaking step into the Quantum Leap with undeniably challenging results. The scientific data captured during the 5 approved years he spent leaping from time period to time period, catapulted the program light years ahead of what it would be otherwise.

Now, anyone with the proper security clearance and passing a rigorous mental health screening can sign up for the program.  The training regime, of course led by the AI program Ziggy, prepares you so well, you find it hard to imagine why Dr. Beckett had such a hard time getting home in the first place. Not only are you able to easily navigate to the time you want, even if it’s just to repeat the last 5 hours of your day, you are able to maintain your own form unlike the early years of Dr. Beckett’s experiments. It’s a win-win!

Locate a Phone Booth

Your first thought is probably, Meg, where in the world would I actually find a phone booth. You could pick one up from eBay for a cool $250, OR you could track down some dude who won one from Nintendo Power Magazine. Whichever route you take, when you do acquire one, chances are excellent it is your new vessel for time travel. Another critical component to keep in mind is the phone book itself. Should you come across a phone booth without one, dude, I suggest being very cautious with just dialing at random. You could end up in an entirely different decade! Let’s face it, If you’re in your mid-30’s like me, the 90’s is the only decade you could land in and not stand out (Flannel for Life!).

Back to the point; locate the phone book that comes with your phone booth. The shorter time frame you want to go back will be toward the front of the book. Dial the # and hang on tight. Be careful as, unlike the other time travel options, you do run the chance of encountering your past self. If you think your past self would not be thrown off by meeting your future self, then by all means lend yourself a hand with those chores! But don’t forget, be excellent to each other.

Take a Fast Drive in a Delorean

Not as easily acquired as a phone booth, but more practical for certain would be to get a Delorean. Not only will you be able to increase your productivity you’ll also have functional vehicle to run those errands once you’ve gone back in time a few hours. Another added benefit is the compost from meal prep easily turns into fuel for the next day if you upgraded to the Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor.

I do caution those that live in more heavily populated areas. To speed to the required 88 MPH not only breaks the speed limit even on most highways, let alone your neighborhood streets. Is the few extra hours of work really worth that speeding ticket?! I say yes and yes! With that time back, think of the work we can accomplish. Get to folding that purple underwear and potentially throw in a side hustle to earn that cash to pay the speeding ticket and pocket the rest. The only thing heavy here will be your pockets full of cash.

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Whether you prefer to depend on others or drive your own density. I mean, your destiny. Adopting any of the above methods guarantees you’ll get more hours in a single day. No need to ever worry about the being late, or as my time traveling expert references would say.

Damn! Where is that kid! Damn! Damn, damn!

Dr. Emmit Brown

You’ll always have a way to make up the time and get it all done!

This is my pull request. If you have other tactics to get time back in your day and be more productive, please don’t hesitate to share in the comments for the other readers. I only ask you provide techniques you also have specifically tried and found helpful as I have above. Sharing is caring!

*Please note all the the above is 100% sarcasm and shouldn’t be taken as real advice. If you haven’t figured that out by now, let’s be friends, I want to travel through time with you!