Enjoy your time

No such thing as spare time,

no such thing as free time,

no such thing as down time.

All you got is life time. Go!

Henry Rollins.

There is this concept of work and spare time that I really oppose: Work time is not supposed to be fun, it is not supposed to brighten your day, it is work. You do it in order to gain money wich will increase the quality of your highly-valued spare time.

This concept of time is extremely strange because it gives you the illusion that suffering at certain points in life will make other parts inevitably better. I ask: Why not have fun all the time? We have 24 hours a day, why don’t we just enjoy our waking hours no matter what we are doing?

To me the term work merely means I get paid to do it, no matter what it is. Therefore work is not something negative, but something awesome. See: Normally I do what I like. At work I do what I like and on top of having fun in the moment I get paid for it. Isn’t that nice? Why yes, of course it is!

You have 24 hours a day, enjoy them! Do not waste your time doing stuff you don’t like, dreaming about better times.

/phil

Opportunities – Seize them!

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

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Take a break

Sometines, you need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and who you want to be.

/phil

Keep going!

Some quit due to slow progess, never grasping the fact that slow progress is still progress.

/phil

So what do you do today?

What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.

We do not live forever.

Every day could be your last.

Make it count!

/phil

Words for teenagers

Well not only for teenagers I guess:

Northland College principal John Tapene has offered the following words from a judge who regularly deals with youth.

Always we hear the cry from teenagers, ‘what can we do, where can we go?’

My answer is this: Go home, mow the lawn, wash the windows, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job, visit the sick, study your lessons and after you’ve finished, read a book. Your town does not owe you recreational facitlities and your parents do not owe you fun.

The world does not owe you a living, you owe the world something. You owe it your time, energy and talent so that no one will be at war in sickness and lonely again. In other words grow up, stop being a cry baby, get out of your dream world and develop a backbone not a wishbone. Start behaving like a responsible person. You are important and you are needed. It’s too late to sit around and wait for somebody to do something someday. Someday is now and that somebody is you!

/phil

About right and wrong

I no longer try to be right;

I choose to be happy.

Ric Elias

This right and wrong thing bothers me. Is there really an objective right and wrong?

Well maybe for real logic like math there is something like right and wrong. But there is not right and wrong for basically anything else because everything is subjective and everything will be different in different people’s perspectives.

Being right does not serve you well as long as it does not make you happy does it? Being in tune with your own thoughts, having a congruent reality, that is what counts. Everything else are opinions, everything else is worldy stuff that distracts you from your inner, calm happiness.

Being happy is not a question of being right, it is not a question of arguments or logic. It is a natural state, just like confidence, that you live in since your birth. Do not let rationalisation take this natural state from you.

You are not happy because you succeed in the society, you are happy because you are meant to be. You could loose your job, your wife, your car and your house today and still find inner peace and happiness.

Next time when you find yourself arguing with someone about anything, no matter how important or unimportant it may seem, stop and ask yourself: What am I doing here? Is this helping me or the other person in living happy lives?

Cut the useless worldly struggles of proving yourself and instead chose to be happy just for the sake of happiness.

/phil

Polish yourself

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese proverb

/phil

Inspiration for a better life

MORE SLEEP

MORE MUSIC

MORE TEA

MORE BOOKS

MORE SUNSETS

MORE CREATING

MORE LONG WALKS

MORE HUGS

MORE DREAMING

MORE ROAD TRIPS

MORE FUN

MORE LOVE

Enjoy your weekend!

/phil

Yes we can

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Richard Bach

Mere ability is not enough, you have to believe in your success. Trust yourself and dig into work with the feeling of ‘I can do that’ rather than ‘This seems hard’.

/phil