Recently I came across a book than inspired me to write this article. I started thinking about all the time we waste through out the day, for example on random whatsapp messages, on tv, playing games, waiting around, browsing all those Kim Kardashian articles that pop in your Facebook feed, and 5 minutes here, 5 minutes there its more than few hours that get wasted in one day.
If you use just one hour every day to do something important for your carer, happiness, relationship in one year you would spend 9 40hour weeks doing that. Just imagine 40 hour week is a week you would sped full time working, 8 hours a day 5 days a week.By just devoting one hour per day to that fitness goal or to learning how to sew, designing, creating, in one year you would have done more than required for a short course.
Since I don’t have a degree in fashion, photography or computing, blogging for me doesn’t feel as natural as being in a pharmacy surrounded by medicines feels. Its a good feeling when you know every side effect of a drug, every symptom of a condition, and its great being able to help. Fashion is something I love, something that you guys decided to tell me that you like how I do, but not something I was ever trained on. Since it became my job, I decided to devote one hour per day learning about history of it, materials, structures, but besides hat also I am learning aspects of photography, web design, social media power, and trying to become a proper expert in the field of my profession.
Just imagine how much would you learn if you spent one hour a day every day learning English, German of Spanish? In one year you would do more than you would do in some university courses. I think consistency is everything, and if you think one hour of your time is too much, think again, didn’t you spend that same hour today on just talking about weather, gossiping, checking out instagram, staring at the tv or drawing some doodles on a piece of paper? What is one hour to us? Nothing? Yet time is the most valuable thing a mankind has.
This also brings me to same old post I already wrote about procrastination, why is it so important to just get over and done with stuff, rather than wasting the time. Not only would we get stuff done faster, but all the time used procrastinating can be used to make up this one hour in which you would work on one aspect of your life that would make it better. I started realising how invaluable my time is when I became a business owner, all of sudden there were too many jobs to do, too many things to look at and never enough time. Spending time with people I choose to was such a scarcity and that made it even more important. I realised that there are a lot of people who just waste my time, and don’t appreciate how valuable it is, but I will get back on that topic.
Before starting my business time was money, but I realised that no, time isn’t money, time is even more than money, because even though you can sell your time for money, you can never buy more time. Whem I worked for someone else my hour had a price of 18-20 pounds. You might think that is a lot or not a lot at all, but that was its market value, for someone who went to university for 5 years, had a high risk job and worked in health sector.
Now back to why it is important to value your time more? Because then you would know that talking to that random girl on the phone isn’t even that much fun because she doesn’t care about you and she is simply bored. its just her using your time. Listening to a neighbour telling you stories about the other neighbour also just wastes your time, browsing blogs also makes no sense unless you are getting some sort of use out of it, inspiration or at least has some entertainment factor. Try to cut out all the time leaches out of your life. I felt so proud of myself yesterday, when I ran into an acquaintance who is a big gossiper and a person without much purpose in life. He wanted to get my new phone number so that we can “catch up” I was very proud of myself when I told him that actually I am very busy and that if he ever needs anything can contact me via email but that I have no time to meet up and discuss other peoples lives over a three hour coffee. Old me would just let people like this waste my time. Know who your friends are and know who are people who just don’t appreciate even their own time, not to mention yours.
Instead of long whatsapp messaging sessions with random people (because I am polite and its rude to ignore people) now I just use that time to read and study what I am trying to do for the rest of my life. I was even thinking of starting another degree, maybe part time, just because I think its so important and I want to learn more about every aspect of what I do.
So next time another Kim Kardashian text or a funny video comes up on your Facebook feed, make it a reminder to close all the time wasting stuff, and get to do something important for you, for your career, for your life quality. Plan a trip, learn a language, motivate yourself, start a course, get a diploma, read many books or just know that your time wasn’t wasted. Because no matter how old you are, where you live and how much you make, everyones time is invaluable, and that is the power of an hour.
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Pre nekoliko dana naisla sam na knjigu koja me je inspirisala da napisem danasnji post. Pocela sam da razmisljam o tome koliko vremena u toku dana potrosimo na bezpotrebne gluposti, kuckajuci na whatsapp-u, gledajuci tv, igrajuci igrice, citajuci sve te tekstove na internetu sta je uradila Kim Kardashian i koje joj je boje kosa, 5 minuta tu, 5 minuta tamo i vise od par sati dnevno protracimo radeci nista produktivno.
Ukoliko potrosite samo jedan sat dnevno radeci nesto vazno za vasu karijeru, srecu, vezu, u godini dana provescete 9 radnih nedelja od po 40 sati radeci to (ako je radna nedelja 5 dana, puta 8 sati radnog vremena iznosi 40 sati) Ovo je samo ukoliko posvetite jedan sat svaki dan kako biste naucili da sijete, isli u teretanu, sizajnirali, kreirali, sa samo tako malo izdvojenog vremena postacete ekspert za manje od godinu dana.
Posto ja nemam diplomu iznecega vezano za modu, fotografiju, ili internet, tako da ovaj posao kojim se bavim nije dosap toliko prirodno kao sto je na primer posao farmaceuta, gde se osecam prilicno opusteno, jer znam sve sto treba da znam, a i ono sto ne znam znam gde cu saznati. Znati materiju je neverovatan osecaj. Moda je nesto cime se bavim, nesto sto volim i nesto za sta ste vi odlucili da mi dobro ide. Od kako je moda postala moj posao, odlucila sam da posvetim jedan sat nedeljno kako bih naucila istoriju njenog nastanka, materijale, strukture, ali osim toga ucim i o fotografiji, web dizajnu, drustvenim mrezama, u sustini posvecujem jedan sat nedeljno kako bih postala ekspert u svojoj struci.
Samo zamislite koliko biste naucili kada biste posvetili jedan sat dnevno ucenju jezika? Za godinu dana ucili biste vise sati nego da ste upisali kurs na fakultetu. Mislim da treba biti azuran i redovan u svemu, a ako mislite da je sat dnevno previse, razmislite samo na sta sve potrosite vise od jednog sata dnevno, na stvari koje vam nikako ne doprinose. Prica o vremenu, tracevi, gledanje u instagram satima, gledanje tv-a, crtanje bez ikakvog cilja po papiru dok gledate u otvorenu knjigu.Sta je sat vremena za nas? Nista! Ipak vreme je najvrednija stvar koju ljudska rasa poseduje.
Ovo me takodje vraca na moj post o odgadjanju obaveza i zasto je vazno zavrsiti stvari koje morate zavrsiti, ali i one koje ne morate a zelite mozete uraditi ukoliko naucite o moci jednog sata dnevno.Ja sam shvatila koliko je moje vreme bitno kada sam otvorila svoju kompaniju i zapocela biznis. Shvatila sam da imam toliko toga da uradim a nedovoljno vremena. Provodjenje vrmena sa ljudima koje volim je postala velika privilegija i tada je vreme dobilo jos vecu vrednost. Tada sam takodje uvidela da ima mnogo ljdi koji uzaludno trace moje vreme i koji ne shvataju da to isto vreme mogu da provedem radeci nesto lepse, pametnije i draze, ali tome cu se vratiti.
Pre engo sto sam pocela svoj sopstveni biznis mislila sam da je vreme novac, ali onda sam shvatila da to nije tacno te da je vreme mnogo dragovenije od novca, jer svoje vreme mozete prodati, ali ga nikada ne mozete kupiti. Kada sam radila za nekog drugog moj sat bi imao vrednost 18-20 funti. Mozda mislite da je to mnogo, ali to je bila trzisna vrednost mog vremena, mojih 60 minuta rada, nakon 5 godina fakulteta, na poziciji sa mnogo odgovornosti, u zdravstvenoj industriji.
Sada da se vratim na pricu zasto je bitno ceniti sopstveno vreme vise? Zato sto shvatite da nije zabavno pricati sa tom devojkom na telefon satima, jer nju boli uvo da li vi imate druge obaveze, njoj je jednostavno dosadno. Shvatite i da komsinica koja ogovara drugu komsinicu radi to jer nema sta drugo da radi, ali vi ne morate da trosite vreme na slusanje o tome. Sve ovo samo traci vase neprocenjivo vreme, cak i citanje blogova nije korisno ukoliko nista ne izvucete iz toga, ukoliko vas blog ne inspirise i nije vredan paznje. Izbacite iz svog zivota sve te pijavice koje se hrane vasim minutima, satima.Juce sam bila jako ponosna na sebe jer sam posle posla srela poznanika u gradu. Cekao je da zavrsim event koji sam vodila a potom mi prisao. To je jedna od onih osoba koje imaju vremena da u gradu budu satima i bez bilo kakvog cilja ili svrhe u zivotu najvise uzivaju u tracanju.Trazio je moj novi broj telefona, kako bismo se nasli i popricali sta je novo kod mene. Stara ja bi mu dala broj jer bi mi bilo zao da budem “nekulturna” ali nova ja zna da nema vremena da ga traci sa ovakvim ljudima. Ljubazno sam mu rekla kako sam jako zauzeta, te da ukoliko mu nesto zatreba moze slobodno da mi posalje email, ali da jednostavno nemam vremena da raspravljam o tudjim zivotima i ispijam kafu tri sata. Morate znati ko su vam prijatelji, a ko ne ceni ni svoje vreme a kamoli vase.
Umesto razmenjivanja ispraznih whatsapp poruka sa nekim ljudima koje bas briga za mene, a koji meni takodje nista ne znace(jer mi je zao da nekome ne odgovorim na poruku) sada jednostavno koristim svo to vreme na ucenje i usavrsavanje onih aspekata svog zivota koje zelim da usavrsim.Razmisljala sam cak i o novoj diplomi, mozda upisem nesto novo, part time, ali otom potom.
Zato sledeci put kada novi tekst o Kim Kardashian iskoci na vasem facebook feed-u ili neki smesan video, neka vas podseti da biste to vreme mogli potrositi na pametnije stvari, svoju karijeru, ljubavni zivot. Isplanirajte putovanje, naucite jezik, motivisite se, radite na sebi, zapocnite kurs, zaradite tu diplomu, procitajte mnoge knjige i ne bacajte svoje vreme. Bez obzira koliko ste stari, koliko zaradjujete i gde zivite, vreme je nepovratno i neprocenjivo, a to je prava moc jednog sata.
