Only Thing Left
As at this point in time, I feel like the hinderances to me being successful in the material world have been shaken off someway, somehow. Latest being the habit that I shed detailed in the previous article (https://bit.ly/3FngDR3). This was my biggest bad habit by far, and now it is dissolved. I feel free, and also I am more hyper attuned to other bad habits that are stumbling blocks.
The prevalent one is the habit of wasting time. I waste a lot of time, which is the most valuable resource in life. The ways I waste it is the usual — social media, following sports, scrolling YouTube shorts, chit chats about trivial things, but mostly time on the screens. I have tried to curb this habit by installing apps and web blockers but it hasn’t worked so far.
I have realized today that the main reason I indeed waste time is because I do not plan. I do not do things according to a plan. I just do them. Then by the end of the day — some things are accomplished, others are not. I lose this fight right from the time I arise because the 1st thing I do when I wake up is to check Twitter or catch up on results of the sporting events previous late night or morning. This breeds a momentum towards entertainment and other junk consumerism online.
This begs the question, Why doesn’t a human being despite knowing ‘what is good for him’ just act? Why the resistance to that which ‘is good for him’? It is often that he doesn’t, otherwise the world would be filled with ‘do gooders’ and people who have achieved the ultimate in their crafts. This is not the case.
The person who smokes knows that smoking is not good for him yet he continues to smoke. Same with the workaholics, alcoholic, etc. If a human really knew what was good for him why would he not swing to action immediately? Why wouldn’t he abandon his ways immediately and go for ‘the good’? So, does he really know/understand what is good for him? What is the disconnect? A sage once said their is huge difference between intellectual and visceral understanding. Intellectual understanding is not powerful enough to cause one to act. It lacks depth. This might be the why…explore this.
Learning how to spend my time effectively is the ONLY thing left in my journey to greatness. If I can solve only this one piece of the puzzle, everything will fall into place. And the journey begins now. This realization is an arrival on it’s own.
When time is scarce it is valued, when it is abundant it is wasted. Planning gives the mind the impression of scarcity and this of it’s own causes it (the mind) to be disciplined. I also feel the scarcity of time just on an instinctual level. This coupled with many other factors might generate enough motivation to be disciplined.
This is where it all began…
