IT HAS ALWAYS WORKED STARTING BIT By BIT
As for me, I have seen that the most destructive single thing you can do while learning how to be productive with your time is getting overzealous after listening some motivational talk, or after reading some piece and deciding to wake up the next day, ready to spend 20 out of 24 hours working, deciding to not touch your smartphone at all, or creating a to-do list that’s as long as Wall of China. That is equivalent to you trying to create magic; it’s as if you’re begging a miracle to happen. You might feel very happy with yourself the moment you’re taking these decisions, happy that you’ve finally decided to live a saner, healthier life. What you don’t know is that you’re a cheat, you’re a seeking a shortcut. And shortcuts are problems; they never solve your problems, they add to them.
You do not take one giant leap and get all disciplined and developed. You take small steps, practical, achievable. You start in the first week by returning every household item, every office item, to where it belongs immediately after you finish using it. You keep your place of work organized. You clear cluster before you sleep. You will be amazed at how much time you save when you don’t have to look for things. There you have a small effort and you have a small reward. You will enjoy it. You will want to do more. From a to-do list that has three of the most important things you need to do the next day, to realizing you need an app that blocks some distractions on your smartphone for a few hours each day. You will still do a lot of play, you will still have a lot of sleep, but the hunger bites deeper as you improve yourself little by little, tiny step after tiny step, and you want to do more, more, more.
But when you wake up one day, overzealous, ready for your giant step, you will carry your task for the day into the next day, and into the next day, and into the next, and you will get tired, beaten. That is how you learn that it is impossible to complete what you have on a to-do list, to sleep earlier, to wake up earlier. It is impossible to not use your smartphone when you shouldn’t. It is how you start believing it is impossible to really become better at who you are.
Abu Amal Sobuur
You do not take one giant leap and get all disciplined and developed. You take small steps, practical, achievable. You start in the first week by returning every household item, every office item, to where it belongs immediately after you finish using it. You keep your place of work organized. You clear cluster before you sleep. You will be amazed at how much time you save when you don’t have to look for things. There you have a small effort and you have a small reward. You will enjoy it. You will want to do more. From a to-do list that has three of the most important things you need to do the next day, to realizing you need an app that blocks some distractions on your smartphone for a few hours each day. You will still do a lot of play, you will still have a lot of sleep, but the hunger bites deeper as you improve yourself little by little, tiny step after tiny step, and you want to do more, more, more.
But when you wake up one day, overzealous, ready for your giant step, you will carry your task for the day into the next day, and into the next day, and into the next, and you will get tired, beaten. That is how you learn that it is impossible to complete what you have on a to-do list, to sleep earlier, to wake up earlier. It is impossible to not use your smartphone when you shouldn’t. It is how you start believing it is impossible to really become better at who you are.
Abu Amal Sobuur
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