Turning Good Intentions into Results
You know the problem; so many projects you want to pursue, maybe writing, maybe music, maybe just reading some of those books up there on the shelf, and yet so little progress.
When you’re lying in bed or staring out of the train window you can promise really to make time for the things you wan t do more. If you’re like me (frightening prospect) you’ll allocate activities to days of the week, set up calendar reminders and anything else you can think of. But when it comes to it, they don’t get done. Why? Because life gets in the way.
Here are some of the things that can block progress:
- lack of time: by this I mean severe time poverty usually caused by working too much. Until recently my job meant I got home after 9pm most nights and often much later. Some people do this all their working lives. I don’t know how. It’s hard enough to keep up with the laundry when you’re working so much, let alone anything else.
- lack of energy: perhaps brought on by the above, perhaps not. But even if you work a 9 to 5, most jobs don’t leave you with much gas in the tank at the end of the day. Hence the popularity of TV and other forms of escape entertainment.
- competing demands: almost everyone has more things to do in their lives than they can achieve at a given point. The problem is urgent matters tend to take precedence over those that are merely important. Sure I need to take the kitchen cupboards down so the damp fixing guy can get at the wall properly, but it’s not going to bring me any closer to quitting work, becoming a writer and moving to the south of France. At least it seems unlikely.
So what to do? Throw up our hands and cry foul? Convention has it I should offer you a bulleted list of ten things to do to fix this problem and make you a better lover while you’re at it.
Except I only have one answer: become conscious. Awareness that the issue exists at all is the first step towards seeing an improvement. I’ll be writing more about consciousness in coming posts. In the meantime, I suggest you check out this seminal article by Steve Pavlina.
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