It seems increasingly accepted that time is built at every moment, accumulating experiences that shape us and lead us through circumstantial currents. German physicist and scientist Georg Lichtenberg went so far as to say that nothing makes us age faster than constantly thinking we’re old. .
To think that it is too late for something is to give wings to the ‘never’ and to kill opportunities and winds of change in different areas of our lives, to think that this is not a problem to consider in terms of the time we have left in the day, week or life, is something that must be analyzed depending on when we are.
“Take care of the minutes and hours will take care of themselves. -Lord Chesterfield-
At this point, we can always regret lost time, sacrificed leisure or abandoned pastime, all of which can give us some anxiety. An anguish that leads us to dark thoughts like “I shouldn’t have let go,” “after all the efforts I’ve made,” “when will I have time for this. “On the other hand, impractical proposals can disappoint us in ourselves by not being able to achieve the objective defined by being beyond our current possibilities.
On the other hand, when defining our objectives they often revolve around the incorporation of new activities, that is not a bad idea. However, it is also true that we can look around, what we are doing or what we already have and turn the situation around.
Working to improve it, broaden the vision and deepen your vision Perhaps, following this seemingly more modest path, we are gaining a richer learning experience than pursuing goals that are beyond our short-term possibilities, however attractive they may seem at first. .
“When we say that the past was better, we condemn the future unknowingly. -Francisco de Quevedo-
Reinterpreting some of the things that occupy our daily lives can bring many things if we change our point of view.
Growth is often not as far away as we think, in fact, simply by changing the perspective from which we look at many of the elements that occupy our daily lives?Relationships, behavior, objects, etc. ? we can make great discoveries.
A multitude of skills and abilities can be leveraged if we change the focus. To illustrate, I’ll build on personal experience. During the holiday season, when I had more free time, I threw a proposal for reinvention. Activity that until then I did automatically: cooking. With this change of perspective on an activity I practiced “without awareness”, I realized that I could bring more elements to my life than a simple tasty and varied diet.
Cooking is an element that, while it can be motivating for some, can be a nightmare for others, we tend to reduce it to something that is used to socialize, obtain nutrients and activate taste, but behind that there are other possibilities that we have not yet explored and that I have had the opportunity to implement and improve.
Behind each activity are hidden qualities that we can obtain at any time, in my particular case, with the kitchen, I discovered several:
“Every week there’s a mess in my kitchen. The fire alarm sounds several times, but that doesn’t stop me from being adventurous. Paul O? Grady-
“I don’t have time to hurry. ” -John Wesley-
I wouldn’t want to end without aiming for one more goal: disconnecting our routine pace and often anxiety. Being focused on something that holds us, that doesn’t make us think of anything else. Both if you choose how to reinvent yourself in the kitchen, and if you choose to restore the furniture of the house, scrapbooking?It’s the same thing. Finding an activity with which we can change pace is fundamental to our well-being.
Look around, look, stop, reinvent, make mistakes, learn and turn off.