"I don't have time to exercise..."

The lack of time is the main excuse that's given when I provide training to people or companies. There are actually two questions there: 

1. do you REALLY lack time?
2. how much time do you need to correct your posture?

Is it really just a lack of time?
It is true that we all have a busy life, myself included. But now, let's play a game and count for a day or a week how much time we spend on

• useless activities (e.g. checking our Facebook, Instagram or Twitter accounts more than once),
• re-doing what we haven't done correctly the first time,
• inefficient processes (e.g., walking back and forth because we're disorganized, or manipulating the same object more than once without any added value),
• being slower than we should because we don't master the tools that we use?

Industrial engineers have a method to hunt and fix these wastes of time: the Japanese 5S methodology, which would be applicable to many daily life situations. Busy people need more than anything to gain expertise in using time efficiently.

Is it always bad to be inefficient?

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