A lot of my friends’ do not understand how can I be always doing so many things. To the point that they even try to disprove it. Which I find very funny and at the same time a bit sad.
Sad because the only reason for what they might do that, is because they firmly believe I’m not doing all that stuff and I’m just making it up. And I think they firmly believe it because they can’t imagine someone being able to.
And it’s not like I’m doing a lot of super high-end amazing stuff. But because I’m not a famous person, or a super successful millionaire so they could justify it.
I’m their friend. I’m just “Dani”. And it can’t be that I do and achieve so much.
But the difference is, that once I started knowing about their daily routines, about their habits. That’s when everything made sense to me. Why they could not be able to do as much in their daily life as I do.
That brings me to this post. About how you choose to invest your time.
I don’t like wasting my time, and even with that premise, I do waste a lot of my time watching videos on Youtube or playing videogames. But above all, those things are not my top priority.
I choose to:
- Eat healthy most of the times.
- Move my ass 3-4 times a week to go exercise.
- Study Japanese and Dutch in my spare time.
- Read 1-2 hours a day.
- Practise once In a while my Portuguese, either reading basic stuff or chatting in some online exchange site.
- Work full time as a developer,
- Keep on finishing my online computer science degree.
- Write this blog.
- Do drawings for this blog.
- Do extra programming courses.
Hard for people to believe that I do all of that? Yes.
Is it impossible? Absolutely not.
It all comes down to what are your priorities, how you execute them and which are your choices.
- I choose waking up early every single day. Including weekends and vacations.
- I choose not to get drunk and wasted every week.
- I choose not having kids. (Let’s be honest, this one gives you a lot of spare time).
I choose using my time, as much as I can but at the same time still having time to enjoying life. And of course, this might mean that I just study a total amount of 2 hours of Japanese a week and 1 of Dutch. But every bit counts. And consistency it’s key. It might take me longer… yes, but that is also my choice.
Most of the things I do are for pleasure. Not because there is a deadline. I do things for fun.
And that’s the best choice I have ever made in my life.
I’m far from being perfect, I do have lazy days, and days I skip my routine and do nothing. But I still keep going back to it, I still go back to do some of those things. Because above all, they are fun for me. I like them (at least most of them 😛 ). And why in the world wouldn’t you do something you like?
It also helps you out building the discipline. Not absolutely all the things I choose to do are fun for me. Some of them are necessary or circumstantial. But I have the discipline built already, I’m used to it.
Your time is yours and you choose what to do with it.
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