In today’s hectic world we often feel we don’t have the time to do everything we want. Studies show that this is not due to a true lack of time. Irrespective of the number of things we actually have to, do the feeling arises from an emotional conflict connected with these activities which makes us think that we are out of time even when we are not. For example, we feel guilty because in the evening we are in the office instead of at home with the kids or we believe that a certain choice limits the time available to work and earn money and so we feel we are short of time. The conflict that arises leads to anxiety and stress and the experience is lived as if we were out of time even if, in truth, we have a lot of time. Stress leads to insomnia, depression and other health problems. Experiments were made where candidates had to complete certain tasks. In some cases, tasks followed one another, in other cases they had to be done together, in other cases there was a financial conflict (not all the tasks could be completed with the available resources and in still other cases there was a physical conflict (for example between available space and things that had to be put in that space). A lack of time was only possible in the second case but candidates felt that they did not have time also in the third and fourth experiments, where the problem was to get the priorities right. Noteworthy is that with respiratory and concentration exercises this feeling was overcome in the third and fourth experiments but not in the second, that is, it disappeared only if ‘false’. We can thus learn to pick out the cases where lack of time is real from those where we need to reason on the problem. Once again there is an opportunity for schools to play a role, but maybe they simply don’t have the time.