My Calendar Is Full But Nothing Feels Meaningful. What Do I Do?

5 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Peter Sorgenfrei. This content was uploaded by Peter Sorgenfrei. This is a YouTube video titled "My Calendar Is Full But Nothing Feels Meaningful. What Do I Do?" (posted 2025-11-05). The excerpt is a single-speaker segment (SPEAKER A) offering personal/productivity advice about calendar overload and lack of meaning: recommending saying no to unnecessary meetings, delegating or declining invites, and reclaiming roughly 15–20% of time to make space for more meaningful work or activities.

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So your calendar's full, but nothing feels meaningful. I think all of us have had full calendars or have full calendars in our lives, but if it's lacking meaning, if it's just, you know, one team meeting after the other, one project that we don't really care about, one interaction with a customer or client that drains us from energy, the best thing to do is literally to start saying no to stuff. It is to look at that calendar and say, what are all the things that I actually don't have to be doing? Or what happens if I ask the person who invited me to this meeting to not attend? What's— what happens if I say, hey, I just can't make it? And if you do that, I think quite easily you can remove 15-20% of the time that you spend on stuff that you don't care about and then start putting something in there that you do care about and find some more meaning.