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8 Productive Ways To Use The Time You’re Normally Wasting On Waiting
One of my readers, Will, recently asked me about productive ways to use the time you’re normally wasting on waiting:
“How do you make the best use of the spaces in the day between other things? The few minutes here and there: waiting in line for coffee, before a meeting starts, waiting for the bus etc. I normally pull out Twitter on my phone, but most content there is rubbish and it feels like wasting time.”
Awesome question, and there’s no way I could put that better. So here we go.
How To Set Goals That Help You Succeed
Setting goals is a way of actively seeking out your ambitions. But before you start starting to chasing your dreams, start by defining your goals.
If you do not have goals, make them up. Everything is better than having no goals at all. Even if you don’t know what you want to do with your life, you have a goal: Find out what you want to do with your life.
Some people tell me: “I’m just not an ambitious person.” No one is born with ambition or predefined goals. Ambition is a conscious decision to pursue growth in life, through experience or achievement.
7 Keys To Reclaim Your Agenda By Dealing With Email
What’s your strategy for dealing with email? For many years, I didn’t have one. I simply checked my email all day long. It reminds me of a quote from Seneca’s book, On The Shortness Of Life:
“We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.”
What is the first thing you do when you started working this morning? Chances are high you checked your email. Most people let their agenda schedule their day.
Email is nothing more than someone asking for your time; do not let them steal your time by immediately responding to emails. Before you realize it, you are working on other people’s schedules.
Manifesto
Hey, I’m Darius Foroux, author of Massive Life Success, and writer of this blog. On this blog I try to talk about the challenges we experience in daily life, such as: dealing with self-doubt, office politics, fear, assholes, improving yourself, strategy, and anything else that is related to health and wealth. I write about matters that inspired me to grow. After all, what is a life without progress and growth?
I’ve made a manifesto, which I use a guide to live my life. I recommend everyone to make something similar (I’ve used Canva.com to do this). The reason I made this is that I don’t like to live a passive life. And having a graphic version is easy for reminding myself what I think is important. I’ve printed it and put it in my office. Having a personal manifesto gives me clarity and purpose. It’s like Jim Rohn said: “It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.”
Transcript
To start living life—like the stoics say—your first job is to distinguish everything into two categories:
- Externals I cannot control
- The choices I make with regard to the external
That is your foundation, to recognize what is in your control, and what is not.
What do you want in life?
- To be happy.
- What is happy?
- Having peace of mind. Or call it tranquility.
- How do you achieve that?
- To live my life the way I want to.
How do you live?
If I decide how to live life, there is no one to blame. I take full responsibility over my life and actions.
Therefore, my behavior will be as follows:
- I shall not complain
- I shall do what is right
- I shall not judge
- I shall treat people kindly
And most importantly, keep moving forward.
Your greatest enemy is:
Inaction —> When you stop, you die.
This means you live in the now.
Look back too much, you will decline.
Look forward too much, you are nothing but a dreamer.
Act now.