Tag: focus

31.5 million seconds

Posted on by philipdodson

Welcome to 2018.

Have you been to the gym yet? booked a summer holiday? Gone to the sales? Started a diet? Written a huge list of resolutions?

2018, a period of time made up of 365 days.

That’s 8,760 hours or 525,600 minutes or 31.5 million seconds, roughly.

I have used about 360 seconds of the 31.5 million seconds there will be in 2018 to write this blog and then another maybe 360 to add some tags and an image.

That means in still have 31,499,280 seconds left remaining of 2018 to do whatever with.

When you put time like this, wow, we have a shit load of time every year to do stuff.

But if like the average person, I use 5,256,000 seconds watching TV/YouTube/Video/Netflix etc, then that’s about a 1/6th of my year gone or 25% of my waking hours this year.

It’s a choice what we do with our time, however, there is always enough time to do what we want to.

What difference will I make with my 31.5 million seconds in 2018?

Effort

Posted on by philipdodson

We are told that there is a direct link between effort and outcomes.

Generally, we believe that more effort equals a better result.

This is only true if what we are putting effort into has a meaningful purpose for us.

We sometimes can put a lot of effort into something because we think that we are doing the right thing, often without much thought and out of habit. Or someone else dictates that we need to make more of an effort with something, often something that is important to them and not us.

Being obliged to make an effort works in the short-term, however, beyond that, there is always resistance, resentment and worsening outcomes.

Perhaps better to focus on what is the right thing for us and then put the dedication in.

The closer we get to do the things we love, then it is rarely an effort, more of a passion that you can not be taken away from easily. We then hardly notice time and we are engrossed in something that is ‘labour of love’.