There is any number of ways to waste your time.
Plan and not execute.
Say “I know that.” and not execute.
Avoid, procrastinate waiting for perfection and not execute.
You see a pattern emerging?
Here’s a massive time waster – taking responsibility for other people.
My new motto is ‘like what you like’.
I’ve just been watching Lara Croft Tomb Raider (the 2001 version with Angelina Jolie). It’s fucking brilliant! It really is.
“Yeah, bruuuuh, but a woman could never take on all those marines and invaders.” It’s a fantasy. And let’s face it, a wet dream for a lot of geeky gamers who will never have sex. So what if it’s trying to persuade you of a particular cultural view or political message. If you’re intelligent enough, you’ll figure that out and if you’re not intelligent enough you’ll buy into it like everything else you’re moulded into being.
Stop being so fucking serious, seriously! Oh My God.
1. Allow yourself to enjoy things.
2. Ask yourself yourself what you like.
3. Define who YOU are as a person and leave others to do (or not do that) for themselves.
4. You’re going to have different moods and sometimes do things differently in the space of seconds, minutes, days, weeks, months, whatever. FLEXIBILITY is way more important than pigeonholing yourself.
5. Start prioritising the things you love and stop making excuses to avoid actually doing them.
Along side my new motto, I have a new favourite principle/term – reverse engineering.
I have a drinking problem, there we go, I said it. I drink way too much wine and it is destructive and it prevents me from going on sightseeing outings which lift me up, thrill me and sustain my joyfulness. The drinking is not the actual problem but the symptom – the disease? Numbing myself down so I don’t ‘get in the way too much’.
There are always more powerful and uplifting choices you can make. Deny no feeling you have. If you’re angry, don’t be angry at yourself for feeling that. Accept it. Embrace it. Emotions are your friends (and signposts) encouraging you to make better decisions for yourself, if only you would choose them.
Tempus fugit (time flies) and the clock continues ticking, save yourself from trying to control others, make choices that make you more empowered, more accomplished and ACKNOWLEDGE the great gifts you have AND the good things you’ve already done.
House yourself in your own body, your own house, your own temple and celebrate life!