I don’t read Reddit when I’m traveling to a new place. I’m not on my phone watching YouTube videos. I don’t scroll through Instagram or see what is going on in my email inbox. I like to make the most of my time traveling, especially when traveling for pleasure, and I generally do a good job of living in the moment and being present in a new place.

What if I lived like this? What if everyone lived like this? Why not adopt this value-based thinking to the time we have during a normal day at home?

To answer a rhetorical question, the answer is that we take the hours in our normal, everyday lives for granted, assuming that there are always more days to fill. I believe this is a dangerous assumption.