How often do you water your margarita? About time management
Often, when we meet a margarita, we think of the typical "Do you love me? Do not you want me? "To" discover "if another person is interested in us. However, instead of thinking of another person, do it in yourself and ask yourself: Do I love or do not love me? Am I worrying about loving me? Am I managing my time well to cultivate and get satisfied with what I do?
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On the management of time and life
We have lived in an era that is moving fast and forces us to live quickly and even with stress, as if we were with the "autopilot" at the time of doing things and it will not take us a lot of effort to perform routine tasks such as driving , going to and from work, etc. We live so fast that we spend the day ritualizing habits and, in the end, our brain automates them.
But What happens if we do the same with our own life, with our relationships, with our purposes? What happens when we get up and go to bed doing the same things, without having overcome, without having achieved an objective, without rethinking anything, without looking at where we really want to go, what we want to do or who we want to be?
The fact of putting the autopilot can take us away from those things that are truly important to us. If we spend too many hours in our work, we may not devote enough time to our relationship, our friendships or ourselves.
It is true that it is increasingly difficult to find time to think beyond our day to day life and start life projects that exceed daily responsibilities. However, if this happens it is possible that you are not managing your time properly and you are neglecting certain things that for you are also important. Once we learn to manage it, we will have much more awareness and much more control over our life and, as a consequence, we will feel more satisfied and self-realized.
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What is life? Time (+ space)
Ask yourself if everything you are doing today brings you closer to where you want to be tomorrow . Ask yourself if you are dedicating enough time to things that are important to you, to your vital priorities.
For this, I invite you to do the following exercise. Grab paper and pencil and draw a daisy . The daisy is you, so in each of the petals write the important areas of your life (family, professional, etc) and think about what you would like to improve in each of them. Based on that, set goals. If it seems too much to start with, start with those areas that you are neglecting and that are most important to you.
Think about what resources you need and determine small objectives, that is, the steps you will have to take to reach that goal. The difference between goal and objective It lies in the fact that the goal is the destination we want to reach, and the objectives are small actions that help us achieve it.
For example, if I want to improve my English, I could establish as a goal: "Pass the C1 exam in January 2019" and as objectives: (1) Study English one hour each day, (2) Attend language exchange tandems, (3) Every time you see a series, do it in English.
It is important that the objectives are personalized and achievable . It is useless to set very ambitious goals if we are not going to meet them. In addition they must be measurable, because it is preferable to establish as an objective "to go three days a week to the gym" than "to do sport regularly".
Once you have your goals, plan your day or your week and establish priorities. Not all activities are equally urgent or important, so prioritizing becomes a key aspect of managing your time.
Other important aspects to take into account when managing your daily time so that you can meet the proposed objectives are:
