Most of the things you are not doing now you won’t be doing any time in the future.
Sure, you can take a mental note, reserve a spot on your calendar, stick a note on your screen. But truth is, more things will come to take their place, and eventually the initial task, idea, project will be erased from any list.
Figure out what matters early and get to it right away.
There are a few things that are always good for your mind and body.
Exercising.
Meditating.
Eating healthy,
Cooking your own food.
Sleeping.
Taking regular breaks throughout the day.
Keeping a journal.
Yet, we always find excuses not to get to them. Time is important, even more important is what we do with it.
To ensure that intention is behind what you do every day, every moment, you need to be able to sit with what makes you feel sad, scared, uncomfortable. You need to be able to accept that and avoid making decisions that will make those feelings go away temporarily. You need to embrace that inevitable part of life so that you can also welcome the exact opposite, equally inevitable, at the appropriate moment.
It sounds so counterintuitive that almost nobody does it.
There’s a difference between doing something because it’s what makes most sense, here and now, and doing the same thing because the opposite makes you feel sad, scared, uncomfortable.
Being with someone because you enjoy their company instead of being with someone because you dread being alone.
Being in a job because it’s what better serves your purpose instead of being in a job because you need to pay the bills.
Going out every evening because that’s how you feel you are contributing to your well being instead of going out every evening because that’s what everyone else does.
Intention is the difference. And we can all benefit from claiming some of it over our actions.
It’s all great that companies have so many ways to communicate, share information, ask and answer questions nowadays. But as it’s often the case, new tools don’t fix old issues.
Like assuming that communication happened just because you have communicated something.
Like expecting an immediate answer to trivial or unimportant questions to placate your anxiety.
Like spreading information left and right with the hope that those who need it will get it and absorb it, while others will forget about it.
Communication is a skill and it needs old-fashioned training, not new tools.
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