How quitting these time-killers instantly freed my mind

Does this describe you?

You’re so overfilled with stuff that before you know it, scores of highly important tasks slip through the cracks and vanish.

After all, state of things earlier were not as jumbled up as they’re now, right?

And no matter how terribly you try to mute it, that same question scratches the core of your heart –

Will I ever be able to organise and clear up the traffic of my affairs?

Read on, I’m going to mention a bunch of attention-chewing habits that could be contributing in messing up your life.

The hot metric to instantly ment away your crutch activities

This piercing truth might sting you right on your face, but let me tell you a dirty secret about us.

We invent clever, fox-cunning excuses to dodge the tough – the results-fetching stuff so to embrace the easy and mundane.

But if easy tasks would have made our audacious, soul-stirring dreams true, every second person had cut it. So success lies in challenging and blood-squeezing work.

For example, before writing this post, I had a thorough read of about a dozen time-saving top posts – racking my mind to figure out:

• What’s the central message of each post?
• Who the posts are intended for?
• What are their core needs?
• What tone and mood the posts carry?

Once I answered these questions, I plunged ahead to craft my post. Yeah, fancy this to be unfashionable and sticky, but it’s due mainly to this work that you’re reading this post.

Instead of pursuing this tough (and results-fetching work), if I had consumed one blogpost after the other without paying attention and without making notes, it won’t have given me the idea of what might work.

Get boring even if folks frame you dim-witted

If highly valued people spoke less and are framed introverts, then there certainly is something of deep consequence in it.

Unfortunately, oftentimes we find ourselves in social climates with a heavy fog of fruitless talks. If we choose backing out from sharing our ‘insights’ there, we’re presumed asocial or dim-witted.

Topics generally firing up such hollow discussions are:

• Criticism or appreciation of any politician, player or actor
• Personal affairs (obviously secret) of your boss or colleague
• Tattling, slandering, stoking cheap fun with the foolish

You might have heard that we’re the average of the five people we most spend our time with. The scary thing is that we get infected with bad traits of people around us, without even knowing that we’re getting infected.

Reserve your curiosity just for things aligned with your secret dreams

A cluster of studies state that our attention is limited, and the more we shed it on different affairs, the sooner it thins out.

If we spend it on things not aligned with our core interests and values, we naturally would need it badly when we-concerned issues come up.

Tim Ferriss, Cal Newport, Aziz Ansari and other successful men ruthlessly block off affairs that concern them not, and a great portion of their success goes to this approach of keeping a low-information diet.

Getting curious to know the romantic liaisons of the pretty girl next door or peering to know what became of the manager-accountant spat isn’t aligned with your core aims. Kill this curiosity before it kills your passion.

Murder tiny time-eaters – they ruin more than you think

Till last year, I averaged about 5 minutes per day on Facebook.

Consumed news for approximately 15 minutes.

In the name of being abreast of the social climate, I even lent my ears to gossip.

These passion-irrelevant activities ruined at least an hour a day of mine. I fancied a few minutes per day to a bit of R&R isn’t a biggie.

But heck no! When I added up these minutes, it came offas a shocker.

An hour a day means 365 hours a year. Going by the 4-hour workday, I lost about 90 days a year to frivolity.

Imagine, 90 days! Agreed, at the end of a gruelling day, we deserve some fun – but there’re far wiser ways for it.

Here’re how some towering geniuses unburdened their work-cares

• Winstent Churchil lost himself in painting
• Murie Curie, who won the Nobel for Chemestary and shared another Nobel for Physics enjoyed cycling
• John Bardeen, who twice won the Nobel for Physics, swam, played water polo and golf
• Charles Sherrington winner of the Nobel for Physiology or Medicine was a ferocious rugby player and rower

So, the bottom line?

We do deserve fun and play, but for it we can’t permit garbage in our heads. There’re way more fruitful options for it, such as pursuing rigorous physical activities (preferably with our families) or simply being in the lap of nature.

The result?

Imagine you’re waking up by the sweet ding dong ding of your morning alarm. You’re slipping off your bed knowing it well where you need to focus your energies.

No noise of those shallow commitments – things are calm and clear as gentle streams.

And why not?

You have straightened up the mass of tangled items and are again enjoying the bliss and clarity of your childhood.

It’s in your hands…just start off by implementing any of the above measures – your new life of joy and childhood bliss awaits.

Go and test!