We try to become someone else without figuring out who we are in the first place. Autocorrection is pointless without self-knowledge.
Time
Capitalism made us more aware of the time than need be. The squeezing out of everything that one can within the stipulated time to give profits to corporations made us to be more urgent in everything and at all times.
Not doing it gifts us guilt and a mental discipline to avoid it and further trapping us in this clock race.
The hourly pay tied to the time successfully removed life from work and has put a conscience in us to be more resourceful as time is now a resource that needs careful management and prioritization, even inviting the evil of multitasking into our lives that’s killing away our attention without any mercy.
Time has become extremely valuable now to an extent that even we have to beg time for more time, probably at the end of the week.
Productivity
The problem with productivity hacks is that they work. As a result, we keep on adding more to our to-do list.
There’s no point to it if we cannot get leisure time. We are freed with these techniques but the time is not being freed up.
Judgements
No one is worthy enough to pass judgement on someone else yet we all do so.
Every person, situation, and issue is different and we do not have all the variables and data about it. Basically, we are ignorant of the whole situation or see just 10% of the actuality. The 90% dark zone isn’t revealed to us either due to a lack of trust or communication ability to define abstract thoughts of the mind. Hence, hold back. Even gods have to be silent when they don’t know what it means to be a human.
Pseudo
We choose to behave differently with a lot of people. Over time we split our individuality into bits and pieces, spread across all the social relationships and people we have had interaction with.
And because of this people also have a different perception of who you are. And when this image that they created about you based on your act before them breaks when you function differently and contrary to what they expected, conflicts arise.
People try to revert back to this false image by convincing or apologizing to them instead of honestly communicating who and what they are and the kind of values they stand by.
Urgency vs Importance
A good question that we can ask ourselves before pursuing an action is: Is this task important or urgent?
Imperfect
A bad start is better than no start. A not-so-good plan can be improved. Something can be done about it.
But a zero state is good for nothing and has absolutely no value for us.
The journey offers wisdom for improvement and mistakes are automatically corrected in the course of action. The starting point on the other hand doesn’t have all the answers. Only when we walk, we shall know what awaits us.
Consistency
Yesterday’s thought should not dictate today’s action.
We should not be prisoners of what we were thinking in the past and be stuck in the iron cage.
If the current situation demands a new ‘You’ then give it a new ‘You’.
Listen
Truth does not need validation. One should appreciate and take in the truth no matter what the source is. We usually value it more when a highly successful YouTube person says it so but ignore when your mom or friend spills it. The status of fact is independent of who endorses it.
Fight
The competition is always with yourself. You are your biggest foe. Hence the wars we should wage should be against ourselves. Junk food, distractions, lazying around, dopamine addictions, plan B’s, etc, unite to play with your mind and intentions. This is the fight that matters to us and not the social status games.
Thy Vox 