“There simply aren’t enough hours in the day.”

I can’t be the only one who says this nearly constantly. Or who, when asked the classic pub question of which superpower I’d choose, always opts for time control. We could all do with more time. But – in the absence of a magic pocketwatch or finally figuring out the quantum mechanics necessary to traverse through time and space – there’s no way to actually get what we’re craving. As the deeply irritating, much-Pinterest-ed saying goes: we all have the same 24 hours in a day as Beyoncé.

While we can’t slow down time, there are things we can do to make it feel like we’ve got more of it. When we’re strategic about how we use and spend our time, we can make it feel like we’ve got minutes in abundance. Or at least that we’re not wasting our precious moments, with hours sliding by without us noticing.

I learned firsthand about the power of this a couple of years back by doing a time audit and embracing timeblocking/timeboxing – simply seeing my waking hours broken down into half-hour chunks that are in my control made a giant difference. If you, too, want to stop feeling like time is disappearing like sand through your fingers, I highly recommend doing the same. But I still wanted more. Greedy, I know.

So, I reached out to a bunch of experts for more tips on how to make time feel like less of a deeply limited resource, with only two requirements: said ‘hack’ had to genuinely work, and it couldn’t be an unrealistic expectation of productivity that only makes us feel worse. Here’s what they advised.

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