Daylight saving? Pfft! They should call it "daylight losing", as I'm wasting time every day now thinking it's not as late as it is.
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And I don't like how daylight saving starts at 2am on a Sunday morning, as if this time isn't going to upset anybody's day.
What about us priests? It's the only day of the week we have to get up and now it's ruined once every six months. And you thought you had problems!
If we MUST have daylight saving, when we turn the clock forward an hour in October, let's do it in on a Monday morning at 11am.
It will cure Mondayitis by giving all workers an hour off, and an early lunch.
And if we MUST turn the clock back an hour in April, how about we implement this on a Friday evening at 5pm, thus creating a longer weekend and making happy hour twice as long.
Now that a lot of the clocks turn themselves back or forward, I can never be sure which ones.
And when I see a clock that hasn't been changed, I have this moment of trauma knowing it's an hour wrong - but not knowing which direction.
However, this latest daylight saving time change hasn't been all bad.
The clock in my car is correct again and I'm driving around knowing the right time for the first time in six months.
Daylight saving reminds me of what parishioners say after I've given a particularly long sermon: "That's an hour of my life gone I'll never get back!"
It's funny that so many of us now use that saying. Tell me about the next hour of your life that you can get back?
The hours pass regardless of what we do with them.
I'm not saying people are wrong to use this saying, I'm saying they're always right to use this saying and muse on this fact - and for every hour of life.
What if the job before you is huge and takes longer than an hour to complete? Well, by working on it for even one hour, you have tackled what is the hardest part - that is, beginning. What if the job is impossible? It might well be impossible. But you will be insurmountably closer to the truth after even one hour.
Why do we waste time? In his essay On the Shortness of Life, ancient Roman philosopher Seneca (4 BC-65 AD) wrote: "People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy."
One of the advantages of all the 2020 shutdowns was that we finally had the time on our hands to do those odd jobs we never have time for.
Yet, many cannot believe it is already October and those jobs are still not done.
Thus, another maxim of Seneca rings true: "While we are postponing, life speeds by."
How do you slow down time? Speed up your efforts.
Even a child notices that hours seem like minutes when they're playing, but minutes seem like hours when they are working.
If I was to say to you now "you can change your life in one hour" you may think this sounds at best like hyperbole and, at worst, a downright falsehood. Yet the statement is neither hyperbole nor false.
How many jobs have you left undone for months or even years?
Although you have given a lot of thought to these jobs and have even become mentally fatigued by the mere thought of doing them, I bet you haven't given even one hour of physical effort.
I say this because, if you did, after even one hour of work you would no longer be mentally weighed down by the incompletion of the task.
You would realise the job was bigger in your mind than it is in reality. The power of one hour.
What if the job before you is huge and takes longer than an hour to complete?
Well, by working on it for even one hour, you have tackled what is the hardest part - that is, beginning.
What if the job is impossible? It might well be impossible.
But you will be insurmountably closer to the truth after even one hour.
Save yourself a lot of anxiety.
Give away just one hour to that horrible job that has been playing on your mind for so long now.
Twitter: @frbrendanelee
