The End of Daylight Savings | Kyle McMurray Coaching, LLC

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Episode 121

You know about daylight saving time, right? This weekend we will turn our clocks back an hour. Right now, it gets dark before I get home, I’m sure it’s the same with where you are too. The days feel like they are definitely getting shorter. You’re listening to Living the Freedom Life, this is Episode 121 and today we’re talking about the end of daylight savings time.

There’s a lot of chatter about ending the daylight saving time shift thing. Most people don’t like change and I get it, neither do I. Mainly, the argument is we still get the same amount of daylight. Why are we moving the clock?

Well, there’s a couple of reasons.

Benjamin Franklin had the original idea of this. And his reasoning was all behind farming and family life. He figured that when farmers would come in from the fields, they would actually have time to spend with their families at a decent hour before everyone had to go to bed in order to go to school the next morning.

Okay, I can understand that. If you’ve ever managed a family, get home from work, try to decide on something for dinner, then find out how everyone’s day has been, Wrangle everyone together for homework, not to mention bath time, and you’re done. You’re out of time.

And if the end of your work day depended on the sun going down, that pushes that schedule with your family, back further and further. So, I understand that.

But not everyone’s work schedule today depends on the setting of the sun. But there is a more updated approach to this.

One reason is this. I’m reading this, okay?

According to some sources, DST saves energy. Studies done by the U.S. Department of Transportation showed that Daylight Saving Time trims the entire country’s electricity usage by about one percent each day, because less electricity is used for lighting and appliances.

So if it’s daylight still outside, this study shows that we don’t use as much electricity for lighting our home.

Another reason is psychological. I don’t know, some of our listeners may be in the Seattle Portland area. But I’ve heard that it rains so frequently there, this some people get depressed because of the weather. Let me say it a different way, the weather can affect our mood.

How many times have you watched a movie, and when the actor is sad it begins to rain?

Of course. The weather can affect our mood.

So, if my job doesn’t revolve around the setting of the Sun and I get home at a distinct hour of the day, do you think I would be in a better mood because it’s dark and I can’t see well? or do you think I would have a better evening if at least some of it when the daylight hours where maybe I could get some work done around the house and have a cleaner yard?

Yeah, I think it matters a lot. Do you think that extra hour of daylight in the evening time would affect my family life at home?

If you’re like me, the people I work with, I spend almost as much time with them as I do with my family. Well, if daylight has an adverse effect on my productivity, and my mood, why then don’t I want that for my family? They deserve the best of me too.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m just like most people, I’m not a fan of change either. I like my routine. I do well with routines, they keep me structured, they keep me in line. My routines keep me productive. Why do we have to go and disrupt that by changing the clock. I don’t know about you, but I live by the calendar. sometimes in 15 minute increments. much less When the Sun Goes Down. and now you’re messing with that?

Some people, a lot of people, want to do away with daylight saving time. I’m for it. even though I don’t like change. I’m still for it. Because I’m able to see the benefits of having to go around the house and change every clock.

But that’s common when we Face any type of change. We don’t want to change because we like our routine. But, when that change presents a new and different situation where I can be a better person, I need to be able to see the bigger picture and welcome the change.

Change takes some getting used to. it’s disruptive. and quite frankly, all of us like to gripe when change comes. but don’t let the temporary satisfaction of griping about the change, extinguish the goodness that is about to come. step back, look at the bigger picture, and embrace the change that presents itself to your life today. it has the potential to build you into a better person. a person that is able to, you guessed it, Live the Freedom Life. We must learn how to embrace change. Oh, and don’t forget to turn your clocks this weekend.

Living the Freedom Life, this is Kyle.