How often do you water your daisy? On time management

Loving oneself also means knowing how to find moments for oneself and cultivate happiness.

Often, when we meet a daisy, we think of the typical "Does he love me? Doesn't he love me?" to "find out" if another person is interested in us. However, instead of thinking about someone else, think about you and ask yourself: Do I love me or don't I love me? Am I worrying about loving myself, am I managing my time well to cultivate myself and get satisfaction from what I do?

On time and life management

We live in a fast-moving era that forces us to live quickly and even with stress, as if we were on "autopilot" when it comes to doing things and it won't cost us a great effort to perform routine tasks such as driving, going to and from work, etc. We live so fast that we spend the day ritualizing habits and, in the end, our brain automates them.

But But what if we do the same with our own lives, with our relationships, with our purposes? What happens when we get up and go to bed doing the same things, without having overcome ourselves, without having achieved a goal, without rethinking anything, without looking at where we really want to go, what we want to do or who we want to be?

Putting ourselves on autopilot can take us away from those things that are truly important to us. If we spend too many hours at work, we may not devote enough time to our relationships, our friendships or ourselves.

It is true that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find time to think beyond our day-to-day lives and to implement life projects that exceed our daily responsibilities. However, if this is the case, it is possible that you are not managing your time properly and you are neglecting certain things that are also important to you. Once we learn to manage it, we will have much more awareness and much more control over our life and, as a consequence, we will feel more satisfied and self-fulfilled.

What is life? Time (+ space)

Ask yourself if everything you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.. Ask yourself if you are devoting enough time to things that are important to you, to your vital priorities.

To do this, I invite you to do the following exercise. Take a pencil and paper and draw a daisy.. The daisy is you, so in each of the petals write the important areas of your life (family, professional, etc.) and think about what you would like to improve in each of them. Based on that, set goals. If it seems too much to start with, start with those areas that you are neglecting and that are most important to you.

Think about what resources you need and set small objectives, i.e., the steps you will need to take to reach that goal. The difference between goal and objective lies in the fact that the goal is the destination we want to reach, and the objectives are small actions that help us reach it.

For example, if I want to improve my English, I could set as a goal: "Pass the C1 exam in January 2019" and as objectives: (1) Study English one hour every day, (2) Attend language exchange tandems, (3) Every time I watch a series, do it in English.

It is important that the goals are personalized and achievable.. There is no point in setting very ambitious goals if we are not going to achieve them. They must also be measurable, because it is preferable to set as a goal "to go to the gym three days a week" than "to do sports regularly".

Once you have your goals, plan your day or your week and set priorities. Not all activities are equally urgent or important, so prioritizing becomes a key aspect of managing your time.

Other important aspects to keep in mind when managing your daily time so that you can meet the proposed objectives are: