To Save Time from Going to Waste, You Need to Slow Down!...
Hello, dear Steemians!
As I have repeatedly said before, time is our greatest resource in life and the only thing that is of real value. Time is fleeting, and it will not wait for you to catch up to its cruel speed.
Most of us are not mindful about the passage of time. Days, months, and years can go by without any significant step towards a better life. But those who are mindful of time are also prone to a common misconception that can destroy their life.
When you are too concerned with the passage of time, you create a source of anxiety that can rival even the most traumatic events of your life.
This is an affliction that many entrepreneurs and dreamers have.
They have a lot of goals and tasks, and come to believe that there is so little time to do any of them. So instead of actually doing anything, they are crippled with an ever-growing anxiety and need to manage their time as ideally as possible.
The passage of time eventually turns into a demon of the mind, constantly bugging you with its weakening grip on how you should spend your days.
When you simply have too much to do and cannot afford to allocate your time to each one of them, you will end up with no progress whatsoever.
The first issue that this mindset poses is a feeling of uncertainty. In order to reach your destinations, there are many paths, and with the little time that we have, you cannot bring yourself to choose one and walk down that path with faith and hope.
The second issue is simply the amount of mental pressure that comes with thinking about time as a finite asset. It is absolutely encouraged to be mindful of the passage of time, but to think of your life as merely days that are numbered, you succumb to a much greater existential crisis.
The whole process is ironic, since with your insistence about not wasting time, you will wind up wasting more than you save because of all your doubts and uncertainties.
Imagine yourself in an open field chasing some rabbits. If you decide to focus on one rabbit and ignore all the rest, you will eventually catch it.
But if you decide to catch them all together, you will come to the realization that the feat is simply impossible. If you decide to catch one rabbit, but get tempted to leave to chase for another one that might seem closer, you once again lose time and receive no progress.
Because the fictional analogy of rabbit is an indication that there is always too much to do, but your opportunities will not comply with your ambitions.
In this sense, there will always be another rabbit that might seem closer, but if you forsake your chase of the originally intended rabbit, you will live to get the other. All you do is wasting a time that you cannot afford to waste.
That is why, in order to save time, you need to learn how to slow down. Once and for all, think about all your goals and desires, and choose one that seems the best path to walk in.
Then, chase after that goal with utter certainty. Do not let your mind be distracted by all the other rabbits in your life.
Speed is not the key in saving time.
Sometimes, in order to not waste time, we must first learn how to slow down and truly think about our journey.
A BIG HUG!
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Important Note!
I have been working very hard on this blog since the beginning. I have a very busy life but I am giving my best and believe me I have shared experiences that I have been coaching thousands of people and I know that the change of the Mindset should be daily. I am already grateful to see you giving upvotes to each other and you can see this with the fact that many already have 8, 9, 10 upvotes. But I'm sure that with the effort of all of us we will see a community with, 40, 50, 80 upvotes and for that everyone should get engaged so we can make it come true. I believe and we can! Resteem...
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I'm reading all the meaningful comments from the posts.
I am here making a list of all of you who have helped build this community by voting for each other who write meaningful comments and soon I will respond to everyone with comment and thank you all because I can already see this spirit being built in this Positive Mindset community and help between all of you.
You will receive my upvote in all material and brief comments I will do this in all the posts I am following very closely and I can see what the people who are generous and contribute to this legacy that I am trying to build with all of you can become reality in a short time.
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First of all, I would like to thank all of you, who are the most active and proactive in this community, showing your generosity and always with meaningful comments. From now on I will always make a list of these incredible people who have helped to expand our goal of growing ever more.
But I ask that if you are new around here you read many of the previous posts because they make it clear that we are building a community with respect among all, generosity and this blog is for those who really want to start moving their Mindset to positive and moreover be part of the growth of all of us who contribute to this blog. Please do not ask to include you in the list if you are just wanting upvotes because we want here people genuinely attuned to growth and good attitudes and as I have always said with Respect as the basis of all, generosity and positivity!
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Thanks All of You!!!!
They say hurry hurry has no blessings. Sometimes we hurry because we work with no plans. So what some of us need to do is to spend time planning not hurry. If you have things planned out why hurry? You know when to do what and where. But if you had a plan and still you fell the need to hurry then you mighty have not disciplined about following your time table.
However if you had a time table yet you still hurrying up, then something beyond your control happened and somehow delayed you somewhere.
Whatever the case lets learn to slow down our life in general, we miss a lot in haste and we make a lot of mistakes in haste
Thank you @pamoja550 for your kind words and great comment. We need more peoples like you in this blog! Thank you for your contribution. You are very Welcome and have my support. I'm give for you 100% of my upvote! You deserve! Regards @chbartist
Thank you too friend @chbartist
Says the man who has self promoted over 10 posts to the Trending category. Fucking narcissist.
Lots of good advice!
Over the years, I have learned to not focus on everything before me because it is overwhelming and it does lead to nothing getting done. Another thing I have learned, is that it matters what we spend our time on. Basically learning which rabbits to chase. Some rabbits aren't meant to be caught. This conclusion can be made when the realization of chasing something for so long and never really getting any closer to the goal occurs. I am an artist, designer, and many more creative things. When it comes to sharing my creative passion with others, through trial and error, I have learned what works and what does not. I will say, the outlets for my creativity & audience reach that I found to work was not at all what I had expected - but a pleasant surprise non the less. Those other outlets for my creativity that weren't really reaching people moved down the list until eventually I just spent time where it counted the most. :)
Great, don't give up your dreams and keep with positives peoples. Denied negative persons in your life every day. Regards and Success!
time, as you say, is the most precious thing we should have, and, it is the only thing that never returns, time, like opportunities, only happen once
As a council, I would say, that in order to truly save time, we must know how to plan that time, that will allow us to take better advantage of it, and make a correct use of it.
Thanks for this post...
Everybody want a comfortable life therefore we works day and night very hard. In fact I do not want a comfortable life because it there no such word exist as perfect life. I am a very busy person and I can not slow down my life because death of my father with cancer made me bankrupt, People, money and relation taught me tough lesson of life.
Money is biggest friend in hard time all other show their true color. those who says money is not important for a good life are fool, with money you can not buy everything but you can buy almost everything.
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Dear @chbartist sir!
Good use of time is good but running behind time is riddance. Time is valuable and untouched, which always keeps pace with the usual trick. Working on time is always beneficial, but thinking about time is harmful and physically harmful. According to time goals need to be focused on setting goals because our unstable mind gets distracted very quickly. You do a very good example of it. There will be no hand in the effort to catch everyone at the open ground, therefore only one rabbit should focus on. Perhaps that indicates our goals in our lives. Mind contemplation over time, it also attracts depression in a way.
Thank you for your valuable teaching.
Doing important work implies that we will confront huge amounts of vulnerability self-question, fears of disappointment, not realizing what we're doing, being overpowered by a lot to do, needing to stall and rushed to diversions, managing an always moving scene and baffling collaborators.
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This notion reminded me of a phrase used in the cartoon adaptation of Don Quijote I used to watch when I was little: "Sancho, vísteme despacio que tengo prisa" (dress me slowly that i am in a hurry).
The alleged paradox resides in the fact that whenever we are in a hurry we tend to rush everything and make mistakes.
It takes some pause to focus and do what must be done as efficiently as possible.
Also the allusion to the rabbits is a perfect example. Actually, in Venezuela we used a similar expression only in allusion to infidelity: "he who roasts more than one rabbit gets one burnt". It applies to issues of time management and efficiency too.
Steemit is a perfect example of how much we want to do and how little time we have to do all those things.
At the end of the day we have to select only a few posts we can upvote and/or comment and only a few activities and projects we can realistically be part of.
To want more here may translate into doing less.
In order to really save time, what we have to do is make a baking of all the things we want to do, in addition to establishing real objectives, which we can achieve progressively. Meanwhile, the more people are planning, the more time they have, and the more we study and work to achieve our dreams, the less time it will take to make them come true.
regards
Slowing down also helps reduce errors and less mistakes help your work proceed forward uninterrupted. This will improve efficiencies and lead to more time to focus on goals and objectives.
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