The author of The Biggest Wastes Of Time We Regret When We Get Older says his list is
- Not asking for help
- Trying to make bad relationships work
- Dwelling on your mistakes and shortcomings
- Fretting too much about other people
Since I’ve spent a lot of time the past few days on technical problems, mine would be:
Don’t waste time and energy feeling frustrated. Learn to either let the problem go or do the work needed to deal with it. The quality of our lives depends on how we focus our energy and our attention.
Once I got into these problems and started finding solutions it became fun. So I would add,
Try to remember the secrets of happiness and ask yourself every day,
- What’s good about my life?
- What needs to be done?
- How can I get this done and enjoy the process?
What would your list be?
February 6, 2019
my list (err what list) has always been in-change mode – BUT now it’s going with the flow – and a flow I’m currently in love with 🙂 – even with the bits that are causing me some grief. A grief that hasn’t any meaning right now, but it might. So when I get “down on that grief” I let it out and then shut it back up and find something in the happiness model…
today I have laid out the 9 collages relating to heart and love – and although I need to rethink the actual backings of them – they felt just like “happiness” …they are over on my blogspot Catherine:theMaker …
I’m so glad! 🙂
oddly I found out in the last two weeks of having technical problems also and my inability to access the internet (after the withdrawal pains!) that although I would miss certain things about it… that I would be just fine either way.
I started reading again and getting more exercise in my days.
I don’t have a list but I know when my life is really out of balance now and I intend to not fall into old habits!
Good luck! Let us know how it goes.
I think my principle would be simply to identify all the good things in my life and make them even better. And give up fretting about all the not-so-good things.
One waste of time in my life is plodding on with books I’m not enjoying in the hope that somehow they’ll improve. They never do and I should give them up much earlier.
That sounds like a good habit to stop. 🙂
When it comes to wasting time, I’m a professional. I’m efficient and productive at work but when I get home I’m a procrastinator.
I couldn’t disagree more. You do plenty. Are You Spending Enough Time Doing Nothing?
I spend a lot of time doing “nothing” – okay it doesn’t look like that when you see what I created…but believe me there is a lot of downtime.
I was supposed to go somewhere today, not a schedule but I need to get 2 more rubbish tags and something from a business only open weekdays – not a major trip at all….somehow I haven’t got there and it’s mid arvo…
Spending time “doing nothing” isn’t wasting it. It’s an important part of the creative process.