START USING YOUR TIME

 JUST START USING YOUR TIME

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 that business idea, painting the picture, getting into shape, or playing Leggett. The point is these things have been going through your hair for quite a bit but you never found the time to give them a shot. But well 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 the course of 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. Seriously like when was the last time you were actually bored at least? I can't really remember for me because I'm always on my phone on my laptop just distracting myself. 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 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. 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 from what I found on the internet. we spend an average of 3 hours and 15 minutes on our phones. And 11 hours on any sort of electronic devices which are including television, laptop, phone, anything you can imagine which is electronic and it detains you. 

I can actually check what my screen time was last week probably it's really really high and we have three hours and 11 minutes on average. I'm still below average, but last week for example it was three and a half hours on average which is just so much the time you spend on your phone. But 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. So in other words, we spent thirteen thousand five hundred days or thirty-five point five years on our screens with an average sleeping time of eight hours.

This is 70% of our time in the digital. The world I mean this is crazy right. Obviously, most of us are forced to work on screens for our jobs, because it's just much more efficiently than just like writing everything down as a filmmaker and editor. I'm working most of the time in front of screens and writing my scripts on my phone or on my laptop. I'm editing photos and videos on 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. 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 an 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.

But, I guess you already know where we spent those last two hours obviously, this graph would look different for all of us may be 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 what I'm trying to say is that this amount of time that we have each day 24 hours, it's just so easily filled up with our 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. But in the last weeks a lot of things changed officially designating coronavirus as a global pandemic, it's that 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. Yeah, the corona bars are all over the news, it's all over the countries, it's

everywhere in the world. So I think the virus really changed the way of our lives for everybody. 

So, I knew some things needed to change so when I'm feeling stuck and I can't really get my ass up 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 it. 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. So,

yeah 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 the 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 finally found time to work on several video scripts which I've been pushing further, back week by week and I started a new online course about digital products,  which are actually really interesting all of those are things that I really wanted to do. But somehow they always ended up at the bottom of my to-do list. I guess I even had freer time than most other people. I want to motivate each and every one of you guys out there to just make the best

out of the current situation. For most of us these limitations give us some head space 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 to actively try new things which 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 point of time is perfect to develop new habits because everything is just so predictable. So yeah you have time to just do things repeatedly and to build up those habits. 

If you really enjoyed this, then it would be awesome if you guys share it with any of your friends, who might also be demotivated at the moments maybe they also need a kick in the ass right now.