Stop Thinking You're the Busiest Person in the World and Start Maximizing Your Life
How many minutes or hours do you waste in an average day? It is all too often that I hear individuals (and myself) talk about being too tired or too busy to do something. Why is procrastination and the idea of putting things off until tomorrow so prevalent in our lives? Especially within my generation, although it is spreading to others as well, we are burdened with so many daily distractions such as Facebook, Skype and Twitter that do indeed make our days go faster, but ultimately do the same for our lives. How many times have you overheard your best friend talking to new people about how incredibly busy she or he is, knowing that it was not completely accurate? How many times have you questioned your yourself and asked, "Am I really as busy or as tired as I make it seem?"
A few years ago, I started dreaming of the idea of fictional writing and thought it would be amazing to write a book, "A Son's Faith." A few years later and today, I hold nothing but that same dream and exactly one page of brainstorming notes. For the last 650 days or so of my life, I have been telling myself, "it will come when it comes." For months I have been struggling with this idea. I began to question myself, 'what exactly will make 'it' come? A day of great experiences? An extra writing course? A miracle? Perhaps these are all very credible and interesting ideas, but the fact is, 'it' is already here; 'it' is already within me. By telling myself that I am too busy at the moment, I am doing nothing but giving myself an excuse to work with and build upon. Instead, I should be affirming myself and my goals. I should be maximizing my everyday life. Everyday, I spend countless minutes that usually turn into hours online, refreshing pages that have not been updated in hours. With every hour that I utilize casually online, I lose one offline. I am losing hours to build my brands, I am losing hours to read and take my mind to places that I dream of one day going. I am losing hours to strengthen my relationships with friends and family members. I am losing hours of my life, but why?
I guarantee that with the money Zuckerberg is making, Facebook will be there at the end of the day, week and year. I guarantee that if you (and I) stop procrastinating some days that you (and I) will not feel like 'the busiest woman and man in the world' other days. I guarantee that if you take an hour out of your day to study a new language, one year later you will be pretty amazing with a foreign tongue (get Rosetta Stone, it's amazing). I guarantee that if you focus on your relationships with others, that days of loneliness and solitude will start to dwindle. I guarantee that if you start maximizing your day TODAY, you will begin smiling a lot more.
Let's be honest, at the end of your life, do you want to be one of those individuals that says I used everything I was given in life or do you want to be one of the half-assers that looks back on life wishing you had done more - that you had asked that girl out on a date, that you would have picked up that new hobby, that you decided to start living.
What do you want your epitaph to read? Go forth and enjoy life.
live well my friends,
be you, be incredible™
