WAKE UP AND START LIVING.
Religion today consists of punishments and rewards (think heaven & hell or “virtuous” & “sinful” behavior).
The resulting underlying emotion is fear – something that makes true spirituality impossible.
Inspired by “One Minute Wisdom” by Anthony de Mello
Write down your 5 most valued personal characteristics. Don’t write down what you think is socially expected or valued by your friends or family members. Instead: Ask your heart (or your 90-year-old self).
Look at your list of values at the end of each day, week or month and ask yourself: “Did I align my time and energy with my core values?”
If the answer is Yes: Congratulations! Enjoy the feeling of knowing that you are using your time in the right way.
If the answer is No: Adjust (e.g. spend less time on Y, more time on X).
Review your values every now and then. We change and grow and so will our standards.
Stop worrying about what you should be doing.
Winning happens when you translate dreams into action and your actions change your reality.
If you’re serious about getting your shit together in the long term, you have to strategize, focus, and commit in the short term.
Spend the time now to save it later.
Getting it together takes three steps:
A strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a goal and therefore all the small, manageable steps of a plan – your plan – neatly bundled.
You’re only as good as the last step you took.
You have to commit all the way.
Ask yourself: What’s wrong with my life? Why?
Where does your time go? Know how long it takes to do anything.
The secret to time management isn’t speeding up or slowing down. It’s about strategy and focus.
Strategy: If X is a necessary task, schedule the necessary time to get it done (= focus) and/or do X only when you have the necessary time available.
The most important thing is single-tasking: Completing one small, manageable goal at a time.
Letting go of things you can’t control is a huge part of the mental decluttering process.
Prioritize and delegate. When in doubt, hire a pro. And try to do it all without losing my mind.
Mental clutter examples: Anxiety and perfectionism.
Eventually, the fear of failure becomes just as powerful and punishing as the failure itself, and it can be crippling.
Frankin D. Roosevelt once said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
When you accept that failure is an option, you move it from the realm of anxiety-inducing anticipation into a reality that you’ll deal with when (and more importantly, IF) it ever happens.
Your energy is better spent on accomplishing goals in the here and now than on worrying about failure in the future (or in your imagination).
Prioritize “doing stuff” before “doing it perfectly,”
Perfection is an illusion and a self-defeating strategy.
The more you spend trying to get one thing perfectly perfect, the less time you have for anything else.
Perfect is the enemy of the good.
Identify your pitfalls in the Game of Life: Poor time management, distraction, and fear of failure.
You cannot finish something you never start.
Pinpoint your own behavior as the cause of your problems.
