Stay motivated with TimeRichMe blog - Page 2

There will be times when you do get impatient, or over-excited about something that you want to make happen. When you've worked in a balanced way for a while, and you want a big gain to break the routine, or you simply want to make much more progress than normal in a project that is especially dear to you. When you want to see that project grow, or more, you require it to grow fast, for your own confidence to be restored or strengthened.

Do you know all those 80 / 20 rules about how 80% of results come from 20% of work? They miss out something essential! 

Most of us have heard much exalted talk about the qualities of being present in our own time. And sometimes we confuse being present with being there, for whatever life throws at us, reacting fast to move it or get it out of the way. While fighting makes us feel powerful and invigorated, it doesn’t make us feel like we have more time.

When we forgo the things that we like for too long, and pressure or stress mounts up at work or in relationships, it is much easier to overreact or to feel like our life is somehow being taken away from us by all these other activities. All we need sometimes to feel peaceful and content is a nod towards our own identity, authenticity, and unique pleasures. This requires time for ourselves.

Most of us productive and workaholic people (yes, one can be productive without being workaholic), are guilty of this one behavior, which singlehandedly makes us be tired way more often than we need to be. We don’t know when we have worked enough. Or, more accurately, we establish a bad marker for what it is “enough” done in one day.

Do you find yourself not very productive in your work time, and still tethered to it when you are at home? And somehow it seems that fun, true fun, is nowhere to be found, despite not much productivity happening either? Then it might be that you are unintentionally mixing work and fun to the point where none of them really happens.

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.

One of the obstacles in spending our leisure time in a truly entertaining, relaxed or memorable manner is that by the time we get home, do a few domestic tasks, deal with family and hit the pocket of time that we might still have at the end of the day for our own leisure, we are too tired to even know what to do with it. Those are the times when we are most likely to spend most of your evening zoning out in front of the television, in front of a Facebook wall, or pointlessly searching for something nice to do, at the foggy edge of what's left of our focus.

Sometimes routine envelops us and we find ourselves without hope that things will ever get better. Compared to the things we told ourselves we will do, our life, though something to be quite content with in many ways, might seem like is falling short. How are we supposed to feel that we will ever get to the part when our dreams start happening, if we are barely able to cope with the tasks we currently have on our plate?