Showing posts with label making full use of time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label making full use of time. Show all posts

18 May, 2012

you're bored every day but refuse to do anything new

There’s nothing wrong about being open. 


Some people say, in fact, you ought to say yes to anything that comes your way. 


If it’s a suggestion, say yes. If it’s a challenge, say yes. If it’s a feeling, say YES


 Even if it’s a stupid idea, or for something you don’t feel is right for you


 If it’s something that’s difficult for you to picture yourself doing, that’s probably Adventure knocking on your door. 


But don’t seek it out. 


Don’t look for trouble. 


That’s unnecessary. And stupid. 


Let it come to you. 


Whether as a suggestion, a challenge, a note or a feeling. 


Listen, or you’ll miss your cue.

15 June, 2011

hark

It’s like time has appeared to me as an empty canvas. It’s huge, and wide, but not too big that I can’t see where it ends. Yet large enough to make me wonder, ‘where to start?’

17 March, 2011

please stick to plans made

one of the biggest transitions from student to working life is grasping the premium of time

when you're a student, you're time rich (unless you're in medicine) and then suddenly you're not.

at work, there's so much to do, there hardly appears to be enough time

this change is really apparent when your immediate social circle consists of students

the casual ffking and flippant disregard for time becomes a major irritant when someone wastes the few free hours you have

and as they say, those are minutes you'll never get back

04 September, 2010

You can't break and enter metaphorical doors

You need access.

Say you see a couple of doors, some colourful, some drab. All else being equal you'd want to go through the colourful doors because, well, they're appealing and look well maintained. Anything well-maintained must be worth walking through.

Thing is, all the doors are locked, and you need someone to open them for you. So we step back a little, and see what the doors open up to. Houses.

You recognise some of them as belonging to your friends, or even a relative. But they don't have colourful doors. That's not where you want to go.

So what do you do?

Very likely shiny things are gold, but there's plenty other more valuable things out there. Like concrete. Don't underestimate the value of well-mixed concrete.

You may not always have the money, or the husband, to get you gold.
Now if it was really that important to you, you wouldn't mind working for it a little. Twist his arm, and make him get you an oven. Use the oven to bake cakes. Sell the cakes, make money. Buy industrial oven, open cake shop, make more money. Then finally, buy a jewelry's store's worth of gold.

We may not have direct access to the things we want, be they projects, contacts, gadgets, but we do have access to people around us. They may not be as glamorous or held as high in esteem as the top-shelf items, but they're there for you to exploi... build upon. Make full use of them or dreams remain dreams.