By Amishi Bajaj Contributing columnist November 25, 2011 6:08PM

In a lifestyle as fast-paced as ours, time is quite the commodity. We are always on the move: running, leaping, flying to achieve the American Dream. I have personally wondered how much I can truly achieve in a day. Is it plausible to plan to work out at the gym, write a midterm paper, start shopping for the holiday season and do laundry all in one day? What if I wanted to add to the list — read a Jodi Picoult novel and play the piano? Sometimes the answer would be yes, and other times, I’d find myself less successful. Marie Curie discovered radium, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped lead the temperance movement. And I couldn’t finish laundry? What was I busy with instead? Where all of my time went, I wasn’t really too sure.