SIZ Approved Course | Self-Development Course | | Lecture 2 | How to use Time Productively?

Hello, Steem Lovers!

Hope all of you are having a great time and using your time productively. If you require working on self-development then, this course is definitely for you and I insist you follow it.

The first lecture was about How to discover your passion and today I'm going to talk about how to use time productively?

So, let's get started...

How to actually figure out to spend time wisely?

Can you remember that one thing you always wanted to try but which you never found a time for?

Maybe you wrote it down on your bucket list or thought about it during your New Year's resolutions. No matter if it's reading that book, learning a new language, starting a business, painting a picture, getting into shape, or playing the guitar.

The point is, these things have been going through your head for quite a bit but you never found the time to give them a shot but I'm telling you...

Now is the time; seriously now is the time

We are occupying every minute of our time with the things we always do. over years we developed an obsession with productivity-driven routines. Our lives have become so busy that we barely find the time to try new things.

And when there happens to be a moment in which our minds aren't occupied with anything and are finally free; we quickly grab our phone and pretend to do something important like scrolling through social media, looking at memes, playing games, or watching YouTube videos.

Do you remember when the last time you were actually bored was? at least I can't really remember for myself because I'm always on my phone, on my laptop just distracting myself.

How Electronic Devices are Occupying and Distracting us?

The internet gives us instant access to anything at any time and I believe it's a blessing and a curse at the same time. on the one side, we have the opportunity to learn anything we want for almost no money.

But on the other hand, we easily get lost and distracted by the gigantic amount of entertainment content which keeps us from spending time with ourselves.

To be honest computers and phones and any sorts of electronic devices they already took over our lives even if we don't want to admit it. it's really hard to measure the average time that we spend on our electronic devices.

But according to a rough estimation, we spent an average of 3 hours and 15 minutes on our phones and 11 hours on any sort of electronic device which is including television, laptop, phone anything you can imagine which is electronic.

How much time do we spend on electric devices?

The even scarier thing is that these amounts are just the averages per day. if we would add it up; it would be 77 hours per week, 4000 hours per year, or 320,000 hours in a lifetime of an average of 80 years.

In other words, we spend 30500 days or 35.5 years on our screens. with an average sleeping time of eight hours, this is 70% of our time in the digital world.

Obviously, most of us are forced to work on screens for our jobs because it's just much more efficient than just like writing everything down.

As a blogger, I'm working most of the time in front of screens and writing blog posts on my phone or my laptop. so it's just an enormous amount I'm already spending on screens just for my work but the thing is that even in our free time we can't really let go of all these electronic devices.

What the average weekday looks like?

let's just break down what the average weekday of us looks like? we sleep for nine hours, get ourselves ready and have breakfast for one hour, go to work and have lunch for nine hours, do household tasks (like buying food or cleaning the house) for one hour, have dinner for one hour, and try to fall asleep for one hour.

That's already 22 hours so we end up with around two hours of free time. Obviously, this graphic would look different for all of us. maybe there's less work more studying; maybe time for sports or time for childcare.

It always just depends on your point of life and your habits but this amount of time that we have each day 24 hours; it's just so easily filled up with the productivity-driven routines that we often forget to take time for the new things.

The phrase “I don't have time for that” became one of the most common and most accepted excuses nowadays. to be honest it's just about prioritizing your time. there's enough time for all of us.

We all have 24 hours each day but we just need to define what's most important to us and I think that most people forget what's important to them because they are just so caught up in their everyday lives.

And that's the reason why it's so so hard to approach new things and to try them out because in our heads we're always just thinking about the next best thing to do. we always distract ourselves and we never really take that space to really try out something new.

So the time map I told you about was our reality for a long time but in the last weeks, a lot of things have changed.

Officially designating coronavirus as a global pandemic

There's been a total lack of supply which seems to persist. well, they're dreaming in almost 70 countries have been asked to stay at home. the coronavirus is all over the news it's all over the countries.

It's everywhere in the world and it has changed the way of our lives for everybody including myself.

Focus on the things you can control

So when I'm feeling stuck and I can't really get to do anything. I always have the same mindset
“focus on the things you can control not the things which are out of your hands”

Why should you occupy your mind with things that are out of your control? you can't even change them so why should you waste your time with them.

If there's one good thing; these are two and so on - if there's one good thing about the quarantine it's that we just have a lot of time. we're not allowed to meet our friends we're trapped at home we have to work less.

It's just a lot of time we have and it's really easy to get into the wrong mindset and to just think

“Most people aren't doing anything right now so I don't have to feel bad if I do nothing”

In some weird way, we are forced into our comfort zone and we don't even feel bad about it. because of that mindset it's very easy to get demotivated and passively wait until this whole thing is over but having that much free time is actually a very rare situation. So why not use it to grow as a person and explore new opportunities instead of waiting for our lives to go back to normal.

Why stay passive if you could actually be active? so after realizing that finally, some things started to change I spent more quality time with my family.

Running can be a real game-changer for you because as soon as you just get up and do some sports; you’re already motivated to do more things. As all the gyms are closed you may start to work out in your garden.

What's the Purpose of sharing all this information with you?

So why am I telling you all of this? I want you to motivate to just make the best out of the current situation. For most of us, these limitations give us some headspace and finally the opportunity to take more time for ourselves and the people around us.

I challenge you to spend time with the people you love and actively try new things that never got ticked off your bucket list.

Maybe for some of us, it's even like a wake-up call to finally have time to re-evaluate what's important to you and to make some changes. to be honest, this time is perfect to develop new habits because everything is just so predictable.

You have time to just do things repeatedly and to build up those habits; you go running from one day to day three days a week and so on and eventually you will build up a good habit of doing something that you wanted to implement in your life.

Probably some of you completely disagree with what I'm saying because you want to take some time just like take a breath. that's completely fine.

I'm not telling you that you should get back to productivity and work hard and hustle. I'm just telling you that it's like a really rare situation to have that much time. so I think we should use it and hopefully this can be a small reminder for you to get up and to do something.

I just want you to Stay Active instead of just like lying down there and just waiting until it's over because it's still going to take a lot of time probably.

Over to You!

So, I hope you enjoyed reading the blog post and let me know in the comments one thing that you really want to try out during the quarantine and with all the time you have and also let me know some feedback on the blog post what you liked what you didn't like.

If you really enjoyed it then it would be awesome if you share it with any of your friends who might also be demotivated at the moment. maybe they also need something like that.

Peace out!

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