There Must Be More To Life Than ThisWritten by David McGimpsey
If you suffer from a nagging feeling of "there must be more to life than this", you're not alone."There must be more to life than this" can be an extremely de-motivating force. Guess where this feeling usually comes from? Your Job. Why? Most people hate their jobs. The first point that needs to be addressed is that it's okay to hate your job. It's normal! The amount of people who like their jobs are few and far between. Most that enjoy daily grind are either very lucky or have been in their current job less than six months. Secondly, changing your job is not a solution to "there must be more to life than this" or to your lack of motivation. Remember old saying "The grass is always greener"? Changing jobs is only a short term solution. Work place politics soon catch up with you.
| | Do Less to Accomplish MoreWritten by Lynn Cutts
Multitasking – it's how we do things these days. Five things at once. Why? Time crunch. Too much to do, so little time. We're busy, busy, busy. Rush, rush, rush. Gotta be productive. Gotta get more done. Gotta go more places, have more things, see more people. We're frantic, exhausted, and stressed. You know scenario. I know it, too. Here are some recent examples.I'm finishing dinner dishes while starting a load of laundry, taking out trash, setting up a lunch date with a friend on phone, and baking super-chunk chocolate chip cookies. (We can't forget importance of chocolate in our daily lives!) End result: bits of tissue from an unchecked pocket all over "clean" clothes, a spilled glass of milk, a lunch date mis-entered on calendar, a sticky, stinky mess on floor from dropping (and spilling) trash, and two broken dishes. Oh, and I burn cookies, too, and hurt my friend's feelings by not paying attention to her. All in all, apologizing, cleaning up mess, straightening out confusion, and redoing jobs I was trying to do all at once take more than twice as long (and create about twenty times stress) as if I'd done things one at a time. Or I'll be putting laundry away while tidying house, having a yelled conversation with my daughter, and thinking about an article to write. End result: My daughter thinks I'm angry because I'm yelling, I can't ever find stuff I've put away (and two months later end up buying replacements, only to have original turn up next day), and half my clothes fall off hangers and have to be picked up and rehung. Or even ironed, if I don't catch them for a couple of days. Then I forget to write article. I've been known to (accidentally) leave my sunglasses in refrigerator and my car keys in bathroom sink because I was thinking of what I had to do next instead of paying attention to what I was doing at time. What I – and everyone else caught in this rush-rush trap – need to do is just slow down. Do one thing at a time and be fully present for it. We'll end up saving time, money, and energy in long run. By slowing down, by concentrating on one thing at once, you'll remember tomorrow what you did today. You'll know where you put your car keys. You'll remember that you bought a loaf of bread yesterday, and you don't need to buy two more. You won't burn your cookies and have to start from scratch. And in long run, you'll save time, money, and stress.
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