Tag: time

It’s a marathon not a sprint

Posted on by philipdodson

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All too often we rush our lives.

Rushing for a train, eating dinner quickly to get on to the next thing, charging from one thing to another and allowing all the stress and pressure to mount. Trying to cram more and more into our days, often frustrated and saying ‘there’s not enough time’.

We are bombarded from all sides about getting things done instantly, about being busy, about doing more and so on.

Don’t do it.

Actually, it is much more productive to take your time, do less and then end up actually doing more in the process.

More importantly, very few things that we ‘need’ to do are so important, that they have to be done immediately, as most of them are not life or death. You can’t put everything off forever, but most things can wait until you are ready to do them well.

So take a step back and plan to do less, spend time doing that ‘less’ really well. Spend time on the things that matter and take time to saviour and enjoy those things.

Not only will you be more productive, you will be less stressed, healthier, more happy and ultimately more successful.

Life is a long journey, with many twists and turns. It is a marathon not a series of one-off sprints.

If only I had more time…

Posted on by philipdodson

The world is a funny place, you struggle every day and end up sometimes just doing the same things, day in, day out.

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You get a feeling that your are just living/working and for what? The same old, same old. That’s when you’ve got to spice things up, that’s when it’s time to say ‘stop’.

Life is a short thing, that involves a one off period on this earth and then that’s it forever. Forever is a very looooooong time, like never ending and you ain’t coming back for another go.

So when you find yourself stuck in a rut, working to live, living to work, going around that same old circle of daily/weekly routine, then just stop what you are doing and go do something completely new.

You need a certain amount of routine in your life to keep everything going along, as there is inevitably, a degree of mundaneness to life. However beyond that, then it is up to the choices that we make, that determine how interesting/exciting our lives will be.

You need sometimes to turn your life upside down, throw a bucket of water over your head, jump in a cold shower, run round the garden naked and break the chains off.

We put these millstones around our necks in life, we put them there, no one else and we choose to keep them there and drag them around every day.

So take those millstones off, look at your life and work out what would make you happy. Stop the feeling of being stuck in a rut by trying something new. Even walking a different way to work will make a difference, as it’s often the small changes that make a big difference over time.

Instead of sitting in front of the TV, which apparently the average time spent is 4 hours a day throughout our lives, do something new and exciting. 4 hours!! wow imagine if you chose to just watch only 2 hours a day, then that would give you back 14 hours a week, 56 hours a month, 672 hours a year and 52,416 hours over a lifetime. That is 2,184 days or 5.9 years that you would get back for you to do a whole heap of amazing things.

What would you do in your life if you had an extra 6 years? We’ll cut your TV time in half and you’ll have the time to find out.

Many of us, me included, say ‘if only I had more time’.