Where Has All The Time Gone?
We live in a busy society. We may have demanding jobs, children,
families and many other "important" things that hoover up all of
our time, and before we know it, Christmas is looming once more
and we're muttering about another year just passing us by.
How many times do you say, "I'll read that book later when I
have more time" or "I'll finish listening to that audio program
when I have more time" or something very similar?
You may want to create the life of your dreams, but it just
seems so very difficult with so many other things that just have
to be dealt with. You may not have the time to spend an hour a
day meditating and an hour a day working on your personal
development and an hour a day working on your business. In fact,
for some of us, we're lucky if we can even find time to sleep!
However, the key is not the spend time "doing" personal
development work, but to just do it!
This means live it; make it a part of your life; something that
you do every moment of every day in everything that you do with
everyone that you meet.
You can sit on the bus or train to work, close your eyes and
work on releasing emotional blocks. You can become aware of what
people are reflecting back to you about yourself in your
conversations and interactions. Being aware of your problems
brings you much closer to changing them.
You may want to find more time to listen to audio programs or
some of my hypnosis CD's. My hypnosis CD's you can put on when
you go to bed to listen to. You don't need to use headphones to
listen to them, nor do you have to be awake. The subliminal
versions can be listened to anytime, even when you are working
and doing other things; so you can still get the benefit of the
programs.
For spoken word programs, what about listening to them on your
commute to work? Or if you spend your evening sat in front of
the television, turn it off and put one of these programs on
instead.
Look at how you are using your time. How much of what you are
doing is constructive and something you absolutely must do right
now? Are there times you are not doing constructive things?
Could you combine activities, for example, watch the television
whilst doing something else working towards your future?
Everyone promotes their own time management system. Have a look
at a few of them, try them and find something that works for
you. This could even be a combination of different systems. It
doesn't matter so long as it saves you times, keeps your
organised and helps you to get things done.
At the end of the day, you need to decide what is most important
in your life.
Is it more important to do the ironing right now and make sure
you don't miss the latest episode of your soap opera?
Or is it more important to sit down and spend some time planning
and working towards creating the life of your dreams?
Working on changing your life can appear to be very daunting,
particularly if you are not in the best of places to start with.
You look at everything that you want to change and want to deal
with and wonder where on earth you are going to start.
In these cases it is best to "chunk" down the tasks and the
goals you have in mind. This means break the big goal into
smaller chunks, or take baby steps. Take it one step at a time,
and before you know it, you will be where you want to be.
How many people get to their old age and say, "I wish I had
spent more time at work" or ironing, or watching soap operas, or
...
So what can you do to find more time
Look at what activities you are engaged in and decide which you
can cut out for the sake of creating the future of your dreams
Combine some activities so you are doing more than one thing at
a time
Focus on what is important to you. Is half hour in front of a
soap opera more important than a half hour working towards your
future?
Prioritise creating the life of your dreams
Right now, stop saying, "I'll start tomorrow" or "I'll sort that
out when I have time" or "I'll deal with that later". It's never
going to happen; never going to work. Just do it and make it
happen right now.
The perfect situation for change will never happen. You will
always find distractions, excuses and reasons not to make the
changes or take the action. You can spend many miserable years
waiting for that perfect situation and you know what? There's
never going to be a perfect situation, only the now.
As the advert for the trainers say, "Just do it". That's what
you need to do too. Stop planning, putting off and thinking
you'll do something when you have more time. Just do it today
"We are all born with the same amount of time. Nobody will ever
get any more than 24 hours in a day; nobody will get more than
365 days in a year. It's your choice whether you will use this
time to create an amazing life or fritter it away uselessly. It
is this choice that makes the achievers stand head and shoulders
above everyone else. What's your choice? Jason E. Johns
"Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan"
Margaret Thatcher
"Look to this day ... for yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow
is only a vision. But today well-lived makes every yesterday a
dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope."
Sanskrit