Time is one of those factors that has the power to torment souls, for their immensity and at the same time their finesse. Sometimes it feels inaccessible, as if the days and hours have been shortened and never enough to finish everything we have to do. We have a feeling that minutes ooze like drops of water between our fingers and there’s nothing we can do about it. We couldn’t concentrate.
Contrary to what many people imagine, much of the time we spend is wasted working or doing some of these activities that we call “productive. “This happens because of the lack of concentration: even when we do the task, our own state of dispersion takes us and takes longer than necessary to achieve it.
“We were born to live, so the most important capital we have is time?Facundo goat?
One way or another, the consequence of this perception that time is not enough for everything is a state of distress, there is tension between the way the clock progresses and the need to achieve the proposed objectives, under these conditions it is also possible that crashes and errors will appear that only increase the time.
There is a whole set of compulsive actions that we perform in the day to day that consume much of our time, in them we can cite some very common ones like this mania of looking at the cell phone every five minutes. we probably won’t find anything new, or if there’s something new, it’s irrelevant, but sometimes we can’t help it.
It is also very common for something similar to happen with some computer windows, if you dial, there are more than 20 or 30 visits to a website or social network, most of which do not find new or relevant information.
Each has its own repertoire of compulsive or repetitive actions. Some people simply interrupt their work to allow their reflection to fly, look around, or do anything that distracts them from the main task they perform.
Precisely because they are compulsive these actions are unconscious, are performed without thinking and we spend a lot of time on them, respond to difficulty of concentration, anxiety or a bad work strategy.
Emotional difficulties also take longer than you think, and they also deprive us of our willingness and motivation to focus on our goals. Unresolved problems involve an emotional burden that silently moves to everything we do.
We all set aside one task, for one reason or another, and it took on a life of our own in our minds; from that moment on, repeatedly and anarchically, he invaded the space of our own consciousness; from that thought came states of anguish. that had nothing to do with the situation you were in at the time.
Unresolved conflicts weigh on the day to day, seriously affect our own ability to concentrate, as they are like uncomfortable noises that give a false truce and appear in the most inopportune moments, spoiling pleasant situations. past or future, setting aside the feelings emanating from your current situation.
Time, or rather its perception, is an essentially psychological dimension. Walk or stop depending on how you feel or what you think. One minute is endless at the dentist and goes through a sigh when you’re in a nice situation. And being so influenced by what happens in the mind, it needs to be handled more rationally.
To better focus and manage time, the first thing to do is to recognize and accept that we will always have something to do, this should not be a cause for anxiety, but should be seen as an inherent feature of life itself. , the next step is to imagine a methodology that combines activity and pauses. Dispersion is also a response to fatigue and it is proven that the brain begins to tire after 25 minutes of attention focused on a single activity.
In addition, it is important that during the hours you are not working you dedicate yourself to creative activities, free time is as important or even more important than the same working time, includes all these gaps of freedom, in which it is possible to release tensions and renew your emotional energy.
Don’t waste those precious moments on repetitive activities, such as watching TV, don’t invest your rest in saturated or boring situations either: it doesn’t really allow you to rest. To make the most of your working time, learn to enjoy a quality break, so you can focus on what’s important and do it more successfully.
Images courtesy of Tomasz-Alen-Koper, Flora Borsi.