By Shazad
We all lead busy lives with so much going on every day. Meeting after meeting. Call after call and urgent demands from everywhere come for us. Rapid-fire media updates and app notifications blasting away at us all day like machine-gun fire No wonder we are tired and overwhelmed! So what’s the antidote? How do you become ‘bullet-proof’ or better yet, stop the bullets from hitting you?
You’ve heard it before. Say NO to as many things as you can without avoiding truly necessary activities in life. Create openings for creativity and even some boredom each day. Don’t pack your daily schedule so tight that you cannot even take a Bio break or spend 15-30 minutes of quality time to have lunch with family and friends. We have to take our time and our lives back from constant ‘busyness’.
Our attention is the thing most people and companies want so be frugal and disciplined with it. Not everyone deserves your time. Those who truly do need you likely want more of your time and are being neglected because you may be distracted and too engaged in everything during your day.
Here’s how you take your life back:
Identify the 1-3 things that truly deserve your attention each day and say NO to everything else that day.
Decide if the other things should be Delegated, Delayed, or Deleted entirely from your schedule. Let someone else deal with things for a few days and see what happens.
Stop stacking calls/meetings and activities back to back for more than 2 hours at a time. Make sure you have about 10 minutes or more to just think and decompress every 2 hours.
Schedule eating time on your calendar so you are forced to just have food without working.
Allow yourself to get bored in some of your newly created “Free Time”. Don’t look at your phone or tablet and don’t try to do anything. Just listen, observe and reflect.
Always remember that we are Human Beings and not “Human Doings”. Your life is not about how many things you can accomplish in a day or lifetime. It’s about the attention and value you bring to each moment. It’s also about the Awesome memories you create so that when you look back on your life, you can say, I truly lived well even if I wasn’t always doing something every single hour of the day.
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