Time is a finite resource. In some ways, it is also an imaginary resource. Time is born from the way humans interact with the environment. It is an imaginary medium through which all that we do is affected by.
Time management is important. There are only 24 hours in a day and a third of that is spent sleeping. Life is a finite resource as well. Do the things you want to do, and nothing else whenever possible. Value time over money.
Be aware that time is finite, but do not obsess over it. There is nothing inspiring about a man who is always checking his watch. Accept it and work with it. Never use it as an excuse. Some will say, “I don’t have time.” What they really mean is “I don’t care enough. This RichardStep Marketing survey was designed to get a better understanding of what really gets under the skin of those folks out there dealing with time. Read over the awesome answers below and see how you can tailor your business to address the frustrations of the people most relevant to your business niche market. Want more? Read the 125 other topics in the ‘Frustrations’ survey category by clicking here.
The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
Time and Planning Properly
- Time to accomplish the things I want to do/interested in instead of the mundane, every day ‘have to be done things’ that fill too much of my time.
- Sometimes distracting my way by one or the other, that makes me frustrating!
- Sometimes I get frustrated with being frustrated which frustrates me to further frustration so I get frustrated which frustrates those frustrated with my frustration.
- Invest time and Talk with someone giving solution and then see they do nothing with it.
- Having free time durning spring break that i wasnt being productive
- Committed to time line to deliver, doesn’t express it can’t deliver until you find out when the timeline is closer.
- I am not a full time employee. I don’t get the same benefits add them and I feel I do more work.
- I feel that I sometimes have to do things that are irrelevant.
- Not having enough time to do all that I need to do.
- Not having enough time to do everything that I want to do
- Long shift and no time to complete our own work in 9 hours.
- I’m having a hard time dealing with emotions of finance and responsibilities. I cannot get things connected correctly lately.
- Not getting enough time to do what I had planned to
- Looking for a full time job. it was frustrating because it is exhausting.
- Working for a long time on a desktop and doing things, job duties over and over again.
- Spend far too much time on an exercise that is of very little value to me or to my work.
- I had to wait for a long time for something very exciting.
- While enduring difficult times right now, I have been trying to get my spouse to understand my fears, feelings, and emotions. It has been difficult for me to not let my emotions deeply impact my actions while feeing misunderstood and having my fears downplayed.
- Sitting in one place, sometimes too much to overcome in too short deadline.
- Misunderstanding about my timeable, I thought that I had 2 necessary deals at one time
- It’s so frustrating every time it go to the shop. Maybe it’s due to disappointment that I gotten there.
- Too much to do, too little time and too many obstacles!
- Too much to do, too little time to do it all well
- Take this test. It took too much time that could have been spent doing something else.
- Training our new dog. Because sometimes it doesn’t feel like we are making any progress.
- Try to make sure that I wake up on time because it’s so hard for me to wake up with an alarm clock.
- I am often so busy that I need to find time to slow down and get more perspective on the work that I do.
- I had to finish too much in too little time which is frustrating because i have to push my self too hard in the coming two weeks
- Iam a day dreamer and wastes my precious time in dreaming of something which is impossible
- Most frustrating thing is having to waste time in travel, food or typing up things that are just time-consuming. It’s frustrating because these things are not productive.
- Waiting for a program,because i can use that time more efficiently
- Wait in line at the DMV. It takes up too much time for something so mundane
- The most frustatings when i can get my job on time. This is frustating because i feel that i cant keep in track my plans
- When i had to go get my passport for the first time and didn’t know how to. i was so nervous i didn’t know where to start or what to think.
- Ive had to charge my phone and ipad at the same time. It frustrated me as i felt disconnected
- I haven’t really been frustrated . But there are times i am and i guess its because i miss brothers and dad . It’s frustrating cause they don’t live with us , they visit when ever they can .
- I have been stuck in a weight loss rut. Just this time last year I had lost a lot of weight and this time I just can’t seem to stay motivated.
- Traffic frustrates me waiting for a long period of time not doing nothing but to wait
- Having to complete an assignment in a short period of time without clear direction.
- Paper round is frustrating because it take me so much time to sort the paper and deliver them
- I have had a bunch of things stack up that I don’t have time for.
- The most frustrating thing I have done lately is spend time in traffic before work. I do not like wasting time and I do not like being late. I don’t understand why traffic is so bad for no reason.
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had to do was to manage my time more efficiently, due to the fact that I have a temptation to game while I needed to study or get work done.
- Missed the van to work and had to drive. I usually get some time to relax before and after work.
- Slow my relationship down, to give my significant other some time to work.
- The most frustrating thing about my current job is that I sometimes have a hard time socializing with my co-workers
- Hmmm. That’s tough. Try to edit some handouts and not have the time to do it.
- Pick an alternative carreer path,i am doing the same job a long time and want to progress onto something new but i don’t know what that is
- I Feel Frustrated To Stay On The Same Topic For Long Periods Of Time And Prefer To Try New Things More Often Or To Come Back To Old Topics.
- Go through the motions of a plan when I knew it was a waste of my time
- Being awake – because I have a nasty cold and am tired most of the time.
- Driving around to get to places. It can be such a waste of valuable time.
- Take two flights to get to my destjnation. Frustrating because of the time it took.
- Taxes…. Gathering all the expense paperwork is overwhelming and takes time I normally find difficult to set aside.
- I had to compile some data that simply would not. It was wasting both my time and the supervisor’s increasing tensions.
- Work has become overwhelming with too many things to do with little amount of time
- Working with the same customer for several weeks and having a new issue every time one got resolved.
- Doing the same thing over and over. The boredom of doing monotonous things sometimes don’t bring fulfillment in life.
- Juggling every obligation and appointment because there doesn’t seem to be enough time for everything!
- Well,….I am supposed to leave the country ina day or two,and I hadnt had enough time to think straight.I hadnt done my studies,nor collected my transfer certificates,all making me go mad at the last moment!!!
- I don’t want t work now, want t get a master’s degree first.So am unable to devote sufficient time for it.
- Last minute request nearing to after office hours. Frustrating as last minute request can sometimes be impossible to complete
- Discipline staff that wasn’t following policy. Frustrating because they have been told several times what the policy is and yet they are still not following it.
- Having to process data in the lab. It was frustrating because I had to repeat the same action 48 times.
- Dealing with failure. I faced a significant failure. An irreparable one, and it destroyed me for a time.
- I did not get all information regarding a case, I had spent hours preparing this question. Waste of time
- I had to fix a issue at work that had no way to proper fix to it. So i improvised and had. Dificult time doing so
- I’m a bar tender at a restaurant, The servers aren’t required to tip out a certain amount, and most times they forget. It frustrates me because I’m busy with guests to & making your drinks. What are you doing for me?
- The most frustrating thing about my current job is reaching targets as it is a sales enviroment, sometimes the pressure is just too much.
- I had to talk my coworker about taking a long break.because he is slow on work and make me angry all the time and I talked to him several times.
- It is socializing,because i tend to see the message behind the words,situations and body language,and at times is frustrating because i see a different message than the one that others would like to send.
- Trying to understand a completely new concept at work that requires me to know it in a very short space of time.
- I had to do a whole lot of work even when i was leaving d institution. i had to study a particular thing 2-3 times.
- I want to read all research articles regarding my research work before I get into my research. But I find no time now. Because it should be finished before two years. At that time, I don’t realize its importance. But now I want to finish this job perfectly.
- This morning I had to write a review in English and I did not it as well as I wanted because it was the first time I did this kind of work
- Find the average jewelry price points of a variety of brands. This was frustrating because it took a very long time (over 8 hours) and there were some brands I couldn’t find the information I needed.
- Trying to find a washing machine and be able to stay within budget. Everyone who has one to sell sells it by the time I can make contact.
- I attended a training day that had nothing to do with my field and desire. It was frustrating because it wasted my time. I could’ve been doing something more constructive. However, it was compulsory for me to do.
- A few days ago at work, I did not thoroughly go through the instruction and ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time. It frustrated because I am delaying my team’s time and indirectly increasing their workload. I could have been more organized.
- Attending the workskills btec course. Why? Because its not teaching me anything new and I could have been spending my time doing something more engaging/worthwhile.
- The most frustrating thing I have had to do during the past few days was to turn in a bunch of assignments in at the same time.
- I needed to get to an antique store, when I got there it was already closed. It is frustrating because I had allotted that time and now I must wait for another opportunity next week.
- The most frustrating thing I have had to do is look for a new job. The reason this is frustrating is because it takes a lot of time and effort to find situations that are a good fit.
- The most frustrating thing was failing at something i was so close to get. Something i knew i could achieve but failed numerous times to get it done.
- Just recently, I got ill and it ruined a lot of plans I had. Now I have to work extra hard now that I’m better to make up for the time lost. What a waste, all because my body doesn’t know its place.
- I don’t manage to do on single scary things, i have been trying for months but it’s blocking me becausue it’s scary and it took to time to make it less scary, now i am as close to it as never!
- The most frustrating part of my life these days what was predicted when my memory where all my documents tendons. So, I searched many times and not found. That was very frustrating for me in those days.
- Looking at some test cases that had been taken over by another person and the headers on the test cases were taken out after we had spent so much time on including them on each one.
- Didn’t have coins for the parking machine, so had to get some. had to go back and forth, from parking the car, to the office, and back again. just wasted a bit of time.
- I quit a a great paying job last week, I also enjoyed the work. I quit it because my co-workers where mean and rude. I like my current Job, I just wish it was full time.
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had to do is decide what I want to do with my life because there are so many possibilities yet so little of what I can actually do at this time.
- The most frustrating thing that I have had to do over the last few days was watch my little siblings. This is because they kept removing their clothing no matter how many times I put it back on.
- Staying on a diet is very frustrating to me. I am always around fast food. I work with 50 women who order food all day. The aroma of wings, pizza, chinese food etc is in the air all the time. I give in so it is frustrating t me.
- The most frustrating thing I had to do was sanding the ceiling smooth to ready for painting. This was frustrating due to being both physically and mentally taxing though highly rewarding at the same time.
- Figure out how to approach my leader about the way he so often drops things on us last minute even after we have planned for something else. It’s frustrating because I know I’m not good at confrontation (healthy or not) and I just hate wasting time.