There’s a great discovery waiting for you. If you’re like me, you have a lot of things you’d love to get done across a day.
The ones that take precedence are the ones like cooking dinner, getting ready for work, doing the washing, showering and a hundred other things a human has to do to function daily.
The things that tend to take a back seat are the ones that will actually make a difference to your life.
Things like meditating, planning some healthy meals for tomorrow (because you know you won’t have time tomorrow), reading a book.
These things don’t seem urgent, and they aren’t really- urgent is for things that you need to do to survive or at the very least to not experience too much unpleasantness…
But who wants a life of just surviving? The good life is about finding ample time for the things that aren’t urgent but that really matter.
For me, it’s my daily voice bubbling exercise, it’s taking time to actually plan my day (before merely reacting to email), it’s the breathing technique I learned that I really want to get better at.
Today, I happened to have Spotify playing while I did my non-urgent but important tasks.
I realised I had a very limiting thought about all these tasks “They take too long”
Well, Spotify disagreed:
My bubbling exercise took two songs to complete.
Planning my day? One song
The breathing exercise? Yup, that was one song as well.
Three tasks that will change your life over time in the span of just 4 songs.
The big discovery is this: the things you want to do that you’ve been putting off take way less time than you think.
To prove it to yourself, put on your favourite song and do the pile of dishes you’ve been avoiding.
I bet you you’ll be done by the end of the song.
Once you beleive me, choose one of those magic life changing tasks and put another song on to find out the exciting truth:
It takes way less time than you think.
