Leading your own life

Repost from 22.10.2018 (Leading Yourself)

Every moment of every day we are each called to be the leader of our own lives. We have the power to make our own choices.

What does it mean to be leading your own life?

Simply it could be taking care of yourself. Making good choices and getting things organized.
Someone has said, that before you can lead others, you must be able to lead yourself.

I think the important question is, how is it even possible to be organized without getting stressed out? When you have a lot of things to do, it seems almost impossible to be well organized and unstressed. The key to this has to be in prioritizing things. It takes a lot of self-discipline.

It's easy to make lists of what you should do and how to take control of your life. In reality it's much more complicated. I don't want my life to feel like a day in the army. Now you do this and now you do that, and in the end of the day you feel exhausted. On the other hand I don't want to be struggling with an endless to-do list, without getting anything done and dreams waiting for their accomplishment until forever.

Well planned is half done. With good planning it's possible to get more time for the things you would like to do. Those things are making you feel relaxed. I enjoy singing, playing guitar and drawing. Still these are something, that I don't have much time to do.

Here are some important points to think about:

Limit time wasting activities

Can you stay away from your phone, when you don't need it? Social media takes easily a lot of time without even noticing it.

Work - life balance

Finding rest, not burning yourself out. Getting the exercise you need and eating well. This has also to do with knowing your own limits. It's good to sometimes push yourself beyond your limits and reach out for your dreams. And sometimes realize, that we are only human. Every moment can not be effective.

Leadership is action
Make good choices. Every action is a reflection of the character. Today's actions are tomorrow's results.

Everything can't be done in one day
You have to take one step at a time.

Life is like walking you take one step at a time. -Taylor Swift

 

More organized than ever

This year I’m going to be more organized than ever. That is what this blog is going to be all about:

Getting things together. Do you believe that it’s possible? I think getting things organized sounds

more like one of those posts on Facebook, where people tell how they have been drinking only water

for six months and eating just healthy food.
A life that is well planned sounds also a bit boring. No more procrastination and everything done in

time. Boring or not, it’s not going to happen right away. Changes are done step by step. After all,

recently I have realized that planning things more is not so boring. When you have a lot of things to

do, and only a limited amount of hours to get it done, planning is essential for survival.
Many of my weeks have looked like a total mess, that I have tried to get through. I recognize myself

from Sophie Kinsella’s books. I find myself getting sometimes into really funny situations. Grabbing a

shopping basket instead of a trolley, buying way too many things and then trying to carry them all to

your car for example. How foolish is that? Sometimes the funny situations are a result of hustle.

Things happen, when you haven’t planned what you’re doing.
I feel like I’ve had the habit of doing most things in the last minute. Procrastinating the less

comfortable things and spending the little time I have with social media or just doing nothing. That’s

not a problem if you have a lot of time. The problem comes when you don’t have. And you start

feeling stressed, because you suddenly lose all the time you could actually do things you love and

get forward with them.
There are always explanations why things are not done until the last minute. And there will always

be. Still there can be time found for the things we think are important.
My writing has been very spontaneous. I’m not much of a planner, it’s much more fun to do things

when you have the right feeling to do them. Unfortunately that’s not the way to get forward in writing.

A blog needs to be planned, and time needs to be owned. I have a lot of ideas for writing different

things. Many times they stay as ideas and never become something real. All because the lack of

planning. And of course, a little bit of laziness.
That’s why I haven’t been writing this blog for a while. I have many times thought about not writing

anymore, because I can’t get texts finished on time and not being pleased with them.
I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. There is no free lunch, habits aren’t changed in a blink of

an eye. Ideas need to be developed until they become something real. Now I commit myself to this

blog for the year 2018. This will be a blog about personal development. Getting things done, even

small things. Actually I believe the small things are in fact the big things. They can make a big

difference.
I started writing this blog for about five years ago. Many of the texts have been much shorter than

planned and the ideas not so well planned. This year I will try to find a clearer concept and focus in

writing texts.
Happy New Year!
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

-Oprah Winfrey