Have you long wanted to start your own business, visit another country or master the art of modular origami? When are you planning, if not a secret? Postponing until better times? Successes in endless expectations.
Once the old calendar fell into the hands with the wise sayings of famous people. “Do not be afraid of the fact that your life must end, be afraid of the fact that it will not begin,” D.Newman’s words from the erased page said. To enhance the effect, the author chose a photo with several grandmothers.
The sad expression on their faces and the sinewy hands on their knees asked the younger generations not to lose precious time. A generation a month later they confidently turned over the calendar page and never returned to it.
By the way, time flows quickly. Taking a unit year, you can compare the achievements of different people. For example, Ivanenko Ivan Ivanovich improved his knowledge of the English language for 365 days. But Petrenko Petr Petrovich bought a saxophone and after a year of regular training he achieved significant success in music.
What this means is that the conditions for them were best, all the factors that could only influence the situation were favorable. In other words, they are just lucky. But Stepanenko Stepan Stepanovich - a loser. He doesn’t love his job, but for the fifth year, he goes along the familiar road every morning (only 15 minutes from home, how can he voluntarily refuse such a good).
Everything that happened to him over the past year: he bought a clipper, used annual leave for a holiday on the "green sea", and the once-presented woman’s costume was worn out. The fact is that now he is not up to entertainment and not to self-development.
Leave it for retirement. Then there will be more time and opportunities if you start saving a few years before. Here is just one nuance Stepan Stepanovich did not take into account. No one can guarantee that he is in good health and with a bright mind will live to those years. “It’s a pity that youth will not be returned” - our hero will think, only realizes - most of his life is over.
In the meantime, there is time for social networks, watching TV shows and long phone conversations. But, if we assume that 3:00 is spent on these matters per day, then on a year scale this is equal to 45 days, that is, a month and a half. Impressive, isn't it?
This does not mean at all that it is necessary to visit museums every day after work, or to devote every free minute to the world classics of literature, ignoring relatives and friends. There is nothing wrong with keeping in touch with them and being aware of what they live with.
After all, communication is an integral part of our life and without it, everything else simply loses its meaning, but the measure must be in everything. In addition, it is better to allocate a couple of hours for a personal meeting than to spend this time at the computer monitor.
Time management experts advise you to carefully plan your time, setting priorities. Enough effective way to keep things together and not forget anything. And, both in the near future, and in the scale of the whole life. Remember that in the world there is still a lot of beauty that you have never seen before and that you have not mastered the lessons that are truly worthy of attention.
“Life must be lived in such a way that it would not be excruciatingly painful for years that were aimlessly spent,” the writer Nikolai Ostrovsky taught. And in this he was right.
