Do These Things After 6 P
Do These Things After 6 P
Do These Things After 6 P
That time between clocking out of work and hitting the sheets
every night is yours to do whatever you want.
How you spend the hours before you go to bed reflects the value
you place on the most important things in life.
But the reality is that, after a long day’s work, you feel exhausted
and all you want to do is to take a long break and zone out with
the television on.
It’s all in how you prioritize your life after work and most
importantly how you plan tomorrow. Plan tomorrow today to
make it easier to begin immediately.
Identifying daily priorities might seem like an obvious or
insignificant step to take, but writing your most important
tasks down the previous night turns your subconscious mind
loose while you sleep and frees you from worrying about being
unprepared. You’ll probably find that you wake up with great
ideas related to the tasks or conversations that you hadn’t even
considered!
Your single most important task within that time is to make even the smallest
progress on your passion project.
You don’t have to make significant progress. But it matters that you stay
consistent.
You could even consider investing this time in your passion project in the
morning before work.
However slow you move or improve, you will be deeply fulfilled in the fact that
you are actually pursuing something you care about.
Do you know “YOU”? What are you capable of? What are you curious
about?
What have you always wanted to do in your spare time that could help
you pursue the life you want?
“The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few
people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the
actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for
many people…The best asset is your own self. You can become to an
enormous degree the person you want to be.”
If you have a good idea of who you are and what you want to do with your
life, you are half way to a successful life.
Invest in yourself, it’s the best investment you can ever make.
It’s not about the kind of skills you acquire because you have
to, but because you want to and it feels right.
Skills that are unique to you. Skills you can only learn by doing. Skills that
can only be developed when you find your true self.
When you put yourself on the line or otherwise expose yourself to the
possibility of failure.
Reading can give you a good head start if you want to start slow and
figure out your meaningful work.
You will acquire new information every day. And even transfer your
knowledge within your company.
You could also create new possibilities for your employer based on your
daily evening discoveries.
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Don’t get caught up in just the habit of reading without pursuing your
creative work. You learn best by doing.
You don’t want to divert the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Even if you have 30 minutes every night, each week you can easily read a
book or better still start learning by creating something!
Different skills, ideas, cultures, and opinions can have a positive effect on
your own views about the world.
It’s about time you figured out what could be improved, challenged, done
different, done with less effort to achieve more.
You never know what will be useful ahead of time. Try new skills and they
will connect with the rest of your skills in the future.
5. Reflect on what you learn by writing
Apart from becoming a better writer, journaling can help you organise
your thoughts. Journaling encourages deep thinking.
For centuries we’ve been trained by the system to stop thinking and do as
we are told. But dreamers and thinkers are changing the world as we
know it.
Thinkers and dreamers are the new untouchables but ONLY when they
TAKE ACTION!
The only thing holding you back from doing something truly amazing, is
you. The world is full of amazing people.
It’s still okay to dream, wish and hope for an amazing life — not just an
okay life, but a ridiculously amazing life.
You are where you are today because of the choice you made
yesterday.
Think of all of the time that was either used productively or possibly
wasted after work till the time you go to sleep and ask yourself what could
I have done or can I do with all of that time?
Prioritise and protect your morning and evening routines, and you will
change your life for good.