By Shazad
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
Benjamin Franklin
Life is incredibly busy with countless things to do each day. There are numerous demands on our time, and many people are constantly seeking our attention. It’s all too easy to mindlessly rush through the 24 hours we have and hope to complete most of our tasks. We become Human Doings instead of Human Beings. There must be a better way!
The Good News
There is a better way to spend your limited resources of time, attention, money, and energy. You define what truly matters and the impact you want to make on your own life. How about the lives of the people closest to you? What do you want them to think, feel, and become? Be very clear about impact and results versus “getting things done.”
The Bad News
You will still feel moments of anxiety and overwhelm after defining what you want to accomplish and why. You will still experience stress about timing and limited resources like attention, energy, and money. The upside is that you will be consciously spending your days on important things and not on “EVERYTHING” that needs to be done. You DON’T need to do it all. You DO need to focus on what’s truly meaningful to you. Find someone else to handle the other tasks or delete them from your list. There’s no reason to fill up your daily action list with 10+ items when only 3 or 4 things will make you feel like you have made a difference in the world.
The Awesome News
Everyone has the same limited time each day. You can figure out the best way to tailor your schedule (as best as possible) to make your mark and become the person who is satisfied at the end of each hard day, instead of just exhausted and questioning your purpose in life. By intentionally seeking out meaningful work and ways to make the best impact on the people you care about, you get the RIGHT work done and delay, delete, or delegate the rest. Life is so much better when you fulfill your mission versus what everyone else wants you to work on. If you are not working on your most important tasks in life, you are working on someone else’s list, and that’s not going to make you happy in the long run. Live according to your focus and purpose so that you can make a difference and help all those people counting on you. Every bit of manual labour or general tasks doesn’t have to be done by you. There are plenty of people who can take care of things.
The unique skills and understanding you possess give you an advantage and a reason to work on specific tasks that you were designed for. Use your talents to do the extraordinary things you are meant to accomplish—things that no one else can do. This will evolve because life has seasons where certain tasks are more important than others. The key is to understand which season of life you are in and which 3-5 tasks are truly a must-do for you each day. Determine this and refine your list weekly to make it concise. You won’t regret it!
Live Awesome!
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