For many years, I’ve been struggling with the ever present impression of not having enough time to do everything I wanted to do.
I ended up eliminating a lot of things from my life, like social events and work, to be able to concentrate on those things. The problem is that I never managed to gain the upper hand on those projects, even if I seemed to concentrate on them.
What I finally understood is that even though I had the will to do all this stuff that was waiting for me, I didn’t have the determination to actually achieve them for real. Until at some point, I just got tired of just accumulating tasks and decided to complete them for real.
The interesting part of all this is that I didn’t just manage to gain some control over my own self, it also made me a lot more efficient than I thought I would be, if I want it hard enough.
I don’t have any real trick to give here, I just kicked my own a$$ because I was tired of being stressed out about trivial tasks and chores and it just worked.
Like I said in many other articles, for me it all starts with lists, so I took my lists and made a small day schedule in a tabler software in which I ordered my tasks.
After a few days, I already felt a lot less stress. And it isn’t just from having less stuff to do now, it is also because I now get the feeling that I have control over my own life and that I can continue going forward.
In reality, I don’t have that much less stuff to do, because I always get new ideas and projects that come all the time that I don’t even see myself ever coming to a point where I have nothing to do. But just the fact of accomplishing some of them doesn’t make it feel like an unconquerable mountain. I will do some of it today, then I will do some more tomorrow, and so on, instead of just stressing about having so much of it and just sitting doing nothing.
So in short, what this all means is that it isn’t how much we do that is important, but that we steadily do it, so we don’t get overwhelmed.