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Do you spend your days regretting the past and worrying about the future?
I am no exception. I do not often regret my past, but I feel that my anxiety about the future and what will happen to me in the future is stronger than others.
So this time, I would like to describe how I spend my time not in the past or future, but in the present.
So let’s check it out.
You can’t control your life
It is impossible to control your life.
No one can know what the future holds.
Therefore, worrying about the future is a waste of time.
I know this, but I worry too.
Many of you may feel the same way.
So how can we reduce the time we waste worrying about the future?
We can do this by concentrating only on what we can control.
In other words, “now”.
All we can control is how we spend each day, today, and how hard we work at what we do.
Yesterday is over. Tomorrow may never come. All you have is today.
In Richmond Walker’s book “Twenty four hours a day”, he states the following
It is when we add to today the two dreaded eternities of yesterday and tomorrow that we fall behind.
It is not today’s experiences that cause us to lose our sanity.
It is the regret and pain of yesterday’s events and the fear of tomorrow’s events.
So let us strive to live one day at a time.
How to spend a day
So how can we fight through and make the most of this day?
The answer is to establish a routine.
Every person has good days and bad days. Some days you will be motivated and some days you will be unmotivated.
A routine will protect you from those times.
If you are a busy person with limited time, it will help you make the most of that little time you have.
If you are a person with time to spare, it will prevent you from wasting time.
Whatever your situation, establish a routine, make a schedule, and stick to it.
There is no such thing as a perfect routine.
The right routine will be different for everyone, depending on their job, personality, and other factors.
Just because someone has a great routine doesn’t mean you should copy it exactly.
Of course, you should use it as a reference, but you may have a different job than he does, or he may be a morning person and you may be a night person.
Customize it to suit your needs little by little.
Also, if your routine or schedule is too fixed, some people may find it painful, like being in prison.
Rapper Lil Wayne spent his days in prison on the same schedule and told his wife that he could write more songs if he stayed in prison.
It is true that it can be hard to fix too much of what you do each day, but having a constant daily pattern protects you from the ups and downs of life and sets the stage for you to maximize your time, energy, and talent.
Also, by spending your days in a mold, your unconventional days will be more interesting days than ever before.
Saturdays and Sundays are fun because weekdays are unconventional, and if every day were a holiday, Saturdays and Sundays would not be so fun.
The content of the routine is not so important. It is important to have a routine.
Everything resets at the end of the day
Even if you have a routine and a schedule, there will be days when it doesn’t work out.
Routines are also a kind of “wish”.
Every day is like a blank sheet of paper.
If you draw a picture on it, you can hang it in a frame, crumple it up, or put it in a drawer.
Only time will tell the value of the picture, the value of the day.
You must finish the day in whatever form it takes.
And when you look back on the day, be kind to yourself.
Forgive yourself for not doing well and praise yourself for doing well.
Then get enough rest to do what you want to do again tomorrow.
Every night, ask yourself.
“Did I make it through today?”
“Yes.”
This is enough, and this is the most important thing.
–Postscript–
In this issue, I have told you how to live each day to the fullest in order to succeed and not fall behind.
What else can we do but to live each day to the fullest?
Something will happen if we live each day to the fullest.
It is true that nothing may happen if you live life to the fullest, but something will never happen if you do nothing.
You create each day, and each day creates and evolves who you are.
Let me end with a quote from Richmond Walker.
Any man can fight through one day.
Thank you again for reading to the end of this article.
See you in the next article!
▪️Reference
Austin Kleon, “Keep Going: 10 Ways To Stay Creative In Good Times And Bad”
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