Good Morning,
Last night as I was driving home I was trying to think of a time in the last year that life had slowed down a bit. I was looking for a time when I had ‘breathing room’ and a time to rest and after thinking it through, I could not find any time that was intrinsically slower.
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Here is it evening already, I could not finish the message due to a busy morning.
It is amazing how busy our lives are, and I know that I am a real slacker compared to some of you and others I know.
So how do we cope with this seemingly endless stream of activity that keeps us moving and hopping? We could take a long vacation, some folks take a day and are fine, some need a weekend and others need several weeks to fully decompress from the daily grind.
We could do less, but often when we are busy, we can do more, and when we have little or nothing to do, we tend to not get much done at all. It is kind of ironic, but fits with the concept of ‘if you want something done, give it to a busy person’. It appears that our business is an engine to keep us productive, but keeping that engine running smoothly and not overheating or breaking down becomes a real challenge.
The first step I have found is getting an understanding of what is going on in our lives. Write down everything you are doing. Get it in perspective.
Next, you may be able to find activities you can drop, or find ways to improve how you do things to free up some time. For example: if you had tasks that necessitated driving the car three different times from home to different destinations you could change your habits and start of going to all three places in one trip. Here you have accomplished the same tasks, used less energy and time at the same time.
Another key point is to organize your life so that you can take less time doing mundane activities. If it takes you 10 minutes every day to find your car keys, then setting a place to keep your keys every day AND putting them there every day will save you 10 minutes of your day, every day.
Another way to say is to play smarter. The speed of life is not going to slow down much, so we best learn how to embrace it more efficiently.
Enjoy
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