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How to Be Productive
“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There are so many things that I want to do, so many books that I want to read. I want to become a writer, an alpinist, a photographer, a dad, you know the drill.
Doing all that requires time and action, lots of action. And yet, I keep falling again and again into the same old behaviors day by day. Instagram, YouTube, just plain good ol’ time wastin’.
Do you ever feel the same?
Then you get sudden rushes of energy and productivity. You sit down to work for hours on end, and then realize, that it’s absolutely unsustainable. You open YouTube again. And so it goes.
Then you feel guilty because you read quotes such as the one above, telling you that you do have a lot of time, just that you ‘lose it easily’, that you’re a time-waster and that you should be ashamed of yourself.
And that’s just normal. The movies lie let me tell you, big time. Human life is slow. Things take time, a lot of it, and effort. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Knowing that things take time, and that life is more gradual than sudden, what’s the best way to go?
