Mind Mapping
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Life & Time
Life is made up of time, that is the biggest factor in it. We have time, we swap time for certain things in the hopes it will improve the time we get to keep.
We work, we sell our time, in exchange for money to make the time we get to ourselves better, we use some of our time to try and increase the quality of the time we get for ourselves.
We don’t always feel that we have the choice for that time to be spent on something we really love doing, but the reality is that we do not have the time to spend the majority of our life doing something we do not like.
When we are working somewhere that we do not enjoy, for whatever reason, be it the people we work with, our position, the work we do, anything, we really cannot invest ourselves fully in what we are doing, and that alone will hold us back and stop us from accomplishing what we could by doing something we really enjoy and are passionate about.
If you don’t like playing sport, or playing computer games, you don’t often find yourself spending the majority of your time doing that, you rather find something else that you do like and you do that, we should consider work to have the same importance. If we do not like what we are doing, or where we are doing it, it is up to us to make the change nobody else is going to make that decision for us.
We should be able to wake up in the morning just as excited as we do on the weekends when the time is ours. Of course there is a little balance and not everything in life is exactly what we want to do, on a weekend there is some tidying up to do, garbage to take out, a few repairs and chores that you have to do, and so it is with work, a small percentage of work will always be things we don’t particularly want to do, but if you find that the majority of your work like is doing things you do not want to do then it is time to make a change.
When we are living without a destination in mind that we are working towards, that would be the same as waking up on a Saturday morning, nothing to do, nowhere to go, yet you go jump in your car and start driving.
It doesn’t matter how fast you go, or how slow you go, if you are just driving for the sake of driving you will never get there and you already are there.
So we can find ourselves in the same position in life, you became an accountant because you were good with numbers, now you go into your office every day, you hate it there, you sit and calculate numbers all day, in a daze, just to afford to go home and have a little time to yourself in the evening and on weekends. You live for the little bit of time you get after work.
That is the definition of a sad life, and that is the life that needs to be changed. Either you are working towards something as in you are working your way up in an accounting firm with the goal of becoming a partner, or you are working towards a promotion in your company to CFO, at least then you have a destination and a way to measure where you are. But if you are not and you are simply doing it because it is something you can do but you hate it, then you need to start looking into yourself more.
Why are you doing it? If you do enjoy it, then why do you not enjoy it now? Is it because of the company you work at, the environment, the people, the location? You need to identify what the cause of not liking it is and then take the steps to fix that. Either it is an issue you can resolve, or you need to start looking for another company to work for.
If you love the job, but not in the way you are doing it, for example doing accounts at an accounting firm, then you can look at moving to a company that does something else and become an accountant there. Maybe a company that does something you are also interested in such as an outdoor shop, or a jewelry store.
Or maybe you dislike the industry altogether, in which case its time to start looking at your passions and then find one that you can turn into a new career. Maybe you like growing vegetables, or designing hang gliders. Whatever it is, if you are passionate about it, you will be more willing to put the effort in to make sure it is a success.
Life without meaning is no life at all, it has to be something that has meaning to you, if you try to lead a life that has meaning to someone else and don’t consider yourself and your own desires, you are still leading a meaningless life.
