How to find time?

This is the biggest questions which is a blocker for most of us in following our dreams or passionate ideas or even small things that we resolve to do now and then - like spending quality time with friends and relatives, children, or meditation, quiet time, artwork, and other hobbies - essentially finding the right time for “ourselves”. Because everything we are involved with, we seem to do for others. 

 

Because everything we are involved with, we seem to do for others.

 

And making a sacrificial attitude we forget the space and time we need for ourselves. For those who tried and felt a sense of failure to think that ‘it’s not going to work’ and have our own compulsions which we cannot escape, it becomes a repetitive pattern and the more we try the more we get a sense of failure. What probably is our bottleneck according to my own experience is at least two things:

1.       Our expectations /preconceived notions about how effectively we will really do - whatever it is that we don’t find time for.

2.       And that “we may fail” or “what if I fail” mindset and if we will really have the energy to sustain the effort into same

May be there are other reasons that tops your list. In any case how do we break the bottleneck and move ahead.

a)       Do not drop the dream / passion / desire

b)      Keep the intention “to do” alive/active

c)       When the above seems to fade, and there is a mental tiredness, depressive mindset with a life that has no purpose, try the above with another one of your wish list ( so you need to have a large list)

Easier said than done? Not if you keep it ticking with “smaller acts” of doing.

Easier said than done? Not if you keep it ticking with “smaller acts” of doing.

For example, there will be some moments when we have between different busy schedules/ attention grabbers. It might be a minute or two or sometime more. We can grab that time and continue dreaming about or vent your lack of doing that in your journal or blog or plan/act in a small manner to keep the intentions alive that we can feel to have ourselves rewarded. (like viewing a video on the same, drafting a to do list, shopping something relevant to what we want to do to get to it, etc.

This blog itself is such an act for me. So are my recent ramblings - try reading here 😊. Even though it served no purpose or did not strike any audience, it helped me to overcome my mindset about “needing to have a LOT of time to do”

If we still fail, point (c) kicks over, and we get less and less interested, less and less motivated and the fire seems to have died a cold death. But having a larger wish list, you can try the same with another one in a random order. If you do not have a larger wish list, create one and keep working on it will become one of the “smallest acts” itself to keep the fire burning and the warmth will help bring the spark back.

Do not fret over lost time. Start fresh.

And internet is full of such stories of reinvented sparks from others which will definitely inspire each other. Two other well written articles I have referenced below.

http://www.oprah.com/spirit/why-you-must-have-solitude-and-time-for-yourself/all

https://balancethroughsimplicity.com/how-to-make-time-for-yourself/

Once we overcome the bottleneck, as they say –

Well begun is half-done!!

 

Wow! So, the recent discussion in one of my meetings about having to find a good time, resulted in me brooding over it and these thoughts came flowing into me pretty quick and decent!

And surprisingly it is also on one of my favourite topics on #time.

Hope you had some good time reading this! Go and enjoy back what you were previously doing!!

Alles Gute!