18-hour days
Several weeks ago, I was having an interesting discussion over dinner with two friends of mine and among other things - we talked about how many hours a day spent for activities related to business. I asked her last week whether she allows me to write this short article without of course mentioning her identity and she replied with a definite yes.
When asked about how they spent their time, one of them told me that on an average she spent 18 hours of the 24 hours available for thinking and doing business activities. I did not surprised with that honest statement as many of us unconsciously actually are doing the same pattern of life. Time is money, as many proclaims. I then explained briefly about the Total Person and Wheel of Life by Paul J. Meyer, about balance required in all the 6 areas of life.
Many people that I met said that live is more difficult or at least more challenging compared to 10 or 15 years ago. It is apparent from many discussions that I had, wealth and success in monetary terms including being well-known persons are not directly related to happiness and sometime behind the scene those achievements even brought sorrows to their life. In fact, friendship, spiritual conviction, gratefulness, social tolerances, and being able to give more to their communities, would bring true happiness and meaningful life to us.
The 18 hour days normally caused by the attitude of people towards what they believe as pillars of success, discipline, hard-work, relentless and always look for opportunities or making opportunities out of every thing. We need to realize that our life is about addition and subtraction. We all pursue things we desire but life is not just about taking, it is also about giving up. Discipline, hard-work and those other mentioned were indeed what have made many people achieved great success. However, what many of us forgot or tend to forget is that success also should mean that we live a balanced life - success in all six areas of life as defined by Paul J. Meyer, Financial and Career, Family and Home, Physical and Health, Mental and Education, Social and Cultural, Spiritual and Ethical.
No one can turn the time back so what we need to do to have a balanced life is simply to remember to have goals set in all the six areas of our life. You will be amazed with the changes in your daily schedule when you start having time to pursue goals in all areas of your life.
Change our mindset, be smart persons, do not torture ourselves with so many things we want to have. Don’t match our success with other people’s success. Start a new schedule, maybe we will still need 18 hours in a day but that should be fairly divided to achieve goals set in all the six areas of life.
28/11/2010
Husen Suprawinata
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