Stay motivated with TimeRichMe blog - Page 1

Many of us have vague dreams about how we would like to travel ✈ and see more places or explore more activities, hobbies, new restaurants, new events, and people. 
 For a portion of these vague dreams to become reality, we must let ourselves plan for them as if they were projects, and let ourselves organize them and turn them into reality.  

Imagine you have two main projects in your calendar, that you should be working on. In fact, any step in those two projects is bound to make you quite content with yourself, to make you feel that you are making progress, that you are safe and on track, and that you will manage to get it done.

ROTI stands for “return on time invested” What is your return for the time you invest? What has been the return for how you spent your morning? Did you get security by making more progress at work? Did you learn something new? Have your learned some new processes or confronted some fears that will help you grow? Did you explore new things and enjoyed that exploration?

Time richness is not only about hitting your goals, but also about how you generally feel when inhabiting your time: whether you feel stressed out, or unprepared, or you feel there is enough time for you to get ready for things and launch into them from a place of clarity of mind and energy. Unfortunately, though many of us enjoy feeling prepared for things, we often sabotage that good feeling by cramming in one extra activity, or staying on an activity for too long, to manage to get more done, before going for that next meeting, activity, or the leisure time for which we would like to feel prepared and in an appropriate mood. Time itself won't ring a bell in our head to tell us we should stop what we are doing and prepare for the next activity. And we won't get extra time to prepare for the next activity just because we wish for it.

Have you ever felt like you do a lot during your day, but like you do not actually achieve much, or that at the end of the day, despite being mentally exhausted, it is hard to even remember what you spent all your day on? Did you ever feel hopeless at the fact that most of your secret wishes, dream projects or ambitious goals never get touched on? I’ve heard some mean advice, that if you want to make sure that your important things get done by people that constantly check their email, you should send them an email about what needs doing early in the morning. They will probably get the thing done for you before they even get started on any of their real work.

It is not rocket science and you probably heard this one before: work in work time, play in play time. Still, between knowing it and applying it there is a gap. And it is impressive how far this technique, when applied, can take you out of chaos land into relaxed, energized and motivated work land, and how many people think play and relax time is optional, something that can and almost should be invaded by work whenever it is necessary.

We tell ourselves that we don't have enough time to do all sorts of things that we would love to do. We sometimes do projects in a hurry and we feel bad about it, because there's not enough time to do them properly. When we are time-poor, we feel anxious and stressed out. It feels like there is not enough time to truly engage with our activities and the people around us. We sometimes end up believing that having a clear mental state and deploying our best efforts or full self on something are luxuries we don’t afford.