Monday’s can be difficult.
You wake up, it’s the start of a new week and you might be feeling a bit anxious.
Your mind is racing ahead to all the things you need to do and all the challenges you need to overcome.
It can be a bit daunting.
So here’s a mood booster for you.
A reason why you don’t need to feel so bad, why you should be grateful for your life and why today is a great day to be you.
Life is simply too short not to enjoy it.
Think about it.
One day, you will be on your deathbed.
This day could be tomorrow.
No one is promised a long life.
But we all live each day as if we have infinite time.
People always say how much “time flies,” which says to me they aren’t making the most of the most precious asset they have.
Which is the most precious asset we all have.
Time.
How you use your time determines the quality of your life.
Use your time wisely, and you’ll live a good, fulfilled life.
But if you are careless with your time, then you’ll soon find your relationships, wealth, and happiness deteriorate.
Time, and how we use it, is just so precious.
And one day it will be too late to appreciate this.
Let’s look at a person who takes their time for granted.
This person’s day-to-day just sort of floats along.
They think they have their whole lives ahead of them to do what they really want.
They tell themselves that they’ll start their business next year.
Or have difficult conversations they need to have with their family to rebuild lost connections tomorrow.
Or apply for their dream job next month.
They become complacent because they don’t realise how little time they have.
And then, one day, they’re struck down with illness.
Or they just find themselves old, ill, and alone.
With so many unanswered questions and regrets about their life.
What would their business have been like?
How much freedom could they have had?
How much better would their family relationships be if they had the difficult conversation?
They’ll never know. Because they thought they had time.
And so they never took any actions that aligned with what they wanted deep down.
Truthfully, there’s a bit of this in all of us.
We all put things off because we think we have time to do it in future.
And we get complacent.
As Seneca says in his truly wise text, “On The Shortness of Life”:
“It is not that we have so little time but that we waste so much. … The life we receive is not short, but we make it so; we are not ill-provided but use what we have wastefully.”
So, today, try and do something you’ve been putting off out of complacency, or fear.
You may not have time in future to do the thing you’re putting off.
What’s the worst that can happen?
It definitely won’t be worse than not doing it, and living with regret.
Love, as always,
Max
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