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What is inside
Time Hack by Rishi Chohan explores how we can use the past, present, and future more intentionally to make clearer decisions and live with greater alignment. It begins with a striking idea: imagine meeting your future self, not to discover whether you became successful, but to understand what you may have missed while moving through life on routine.
The book examines how easily we can become trapped in familiar patterns. We relive the past and call it reflection. We imagine the future and call it planning. Or we avoid both and stay busy with what feels practical. Rishi offers a different approach: use the past to recognise patterns, the future to clarify direction, and the present to take small, honest action.
Drawing from decades of leadership, decision-making, personal experience, and a belief that time is one of our most valuable resources, Rishi shares perspectives and tools designed to interrupt autopilot thinking. The book explores ambition, purpose, family, change, personal growth, decision-making, and the subtle habits that shape how we spend our days. Rather than prescribing a rigid system or another productivity formula, Time Hack encourages readers to pause, question what they have accepted as normal, and look at their lives through a different lens.
Its chapters can be read in sequence or revisited individually, each offering ideas, stories, and reflections that invite readers to notice what they may be quietly postponing or avoiding.
Time Hack is for professionals, leaders, entrepreneurs, parents, and anyone who has built a busy life but occasionally wonders whether busyness and progress are the same thing. It is also for readers navigating change, questioning familiar definitions of success, or simply wanting to make more intentional use of the time they have.
At its heart, the book asks readers to stop waiting for “someday” and begin paying closer attention to the life already unfolding now.
Excerpt
From “Zoom Out... Perspective at a Distance”
ZOOM OUT... PERSPECTIVE AT A DISTANCE
Leo was successful in the way most people define success. A respectable job in finance, a corner office with a view of the lake, two school-going children, and a spouse who worked in tech. His calendar was full, his inbox overflowing, and his weekends carefully organised.
And yet, something had started to feel strange. Not loud or disruptive, just quiet and heavy.
One rainy Sunday, while cleaning the attic, Leo came across a dusty shoebox labelled “Leo’s Stuff.” Inside were old photographs, dried pens, a concert ticket from 1999, and an unmarked cassette tape. Curious, he found an old Walkman and pressed play.
What he heard was his own voice from years ago. Young, slightly cracked, but confident. A guitar riff followed, raw and imperfect, yet full of energy. At the end came the voice of his nineteen-year-old self saying, “Okay, this was just practice. Real version tomorrow.”
Leo sat still for a long time.
It was not exactly regret. It was recognition.
Somewhere inside the man with quarterly goals, family responsibilities, and house loan obligations was still the young man with the clumsy voice and enormous dreams. He had not deliberately abandoned that version of himself. He had simply moved on, one responsibility at a time, until that part of him disappeared into the background.
Later that evening, while folding laundry, Leo caught himself humming an old song. The melody returned effortlessly.
That was when something shifted.
The dream was not dead. It had simply been forgotten.
He did not need to resign from his job, sell his house, or become a full-time musician. He did not need to dramatically reinvent his life. He simply needed to make room for that part of himself again.
So Leo began setting aside one quiet hour on Sunday mornings before the rest of the house woke up. He picked up the guitar. He played badly at first. Then better. What mattered was not whether music became another achievement. What mattered was that he had started showing up for a part of himself he had almost forgotten.
We often assume regret comes from failure. More often, it comes from never trying at all.
Perspective helps us see that difference.
Leo did not throw away the life he had built. He simply stepped back far enough to notice what had been missing. And by bringing one forgotten part of himself back into the present, his life began to feel more like his own.
Sometimes, zooming out does not tell us to change everything.
It simply helps us remember what still matters.
About the author
Chief Executive Officer US, GFT Technologies · New York, United States
Rishi Chohan is a CEO, avid reader, and New Yorker with 20+ years across consulting, technology, and financial services. He writes on time, leadership, purpose, decision-making, and personal growth.
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