What I've learnt from this TED-Talk

更新於 2022/08/26閱讀時間約 6 分鐘
Hey guys,
Recently one of my students showed me a TED-Talk video on “How to gain control of your free time” and said that she wanted to do a lesson on it. After watching it, there were a few life lessons that we sort of already knew at the back of our mind, but it is often overlooked and we hardly put them into practice in our daily lives. So, here are the takeaway messages that I think we should make it visible to us in our working or living space so that we could constantly be reminded on how we are using our time. The older you get, the less time you can squander…
  • When you say “I don't have time” it means that it is not a priority for you. So focus and prioritize whatever matters to you everyday. Whether it learning a new language, meditating, exercising, making your own healthy and nutritious breakfast etc. By doing so, you will be at least 1% closer to build the life/body/self you want for your future.
  • Time is a choice. It is said that your future lies where you put your energy. By being highly conscious of your choice over what you want to do right at this moment is a start. Invest time on what is important to you everyday, even if it’s just 10 minutes, you will have a better chance of achieving whatever you want than those who did not even show up at all. In a nutshell, we have more control over how we want to use our time than we think.
  • We don’t build the lives we want by saving time, we build the lives we want and time saves itself. This is something that we can chew on. I feel that often times we did not address the heart of the problem when it comes to time management:So if we ask ourselves “ How should I save time in order to do XYZ?”, your brain will wired to find ways to save time, but saving time is not the crux of the issue here. The ultimate question that we should ask is “XYZ is important to me, what should I do to schedule them in in my daily routine?”. By asking that, your brain will come up with ways to help you to fit in that XYZ in your schedule.
You see, we are often wired to think that we should manage our time in order to create the life we want, but again, the term “time management” will help you to manage your time, but it won’t manage your life. So by replacing it with “life management”, the things we focus on, the decisions we make, the thoughts we think and our behaviours will completely shift and gear toward creating the life you want, and not just saving time.
So, that’s just my 2 cents after watching this talk. If you find this useful, you are welcome to click the share button here.
If you would like to drop your 2 cents here, please leave a comment. I’d be happy to hear from you.
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    I cannot stress this enough for my students: Please, please try and figure out the meaning of a word, a phrase, a sentence by 上看下看左看右看 method.
    Happy New Year to you! I hope you all had a great celebration and did your countdown ( 跨年倒數) (not “cross-year “ please…. 😒). If you did, it’s great!
    繼上一篇文章的討論,這篇要來分享如何在我們的日常生活中,時常保持觀察者的中立狀態,來看待自己每分每秒的起心動念。 首先,為何要將自己定位為觀察者呢?舉個例:當我在看恐怖片的時候,情緒一定會被裡面的畫面,情節,所影響 (這樣看恐怖片才爽啊)。但覺得太可怕想要中和自己被嚇的情形下,我會告訴自己,這只是一
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    我很羨慕男主角跟女主角在戲裡的互動。他們兩個之間的互動雖然很平淡,但對我來說,他們都很自然且能夠冷靜地表達自己的感受。通常在親密的關係裡,我們很容易失去耐性,常常冷戰,沈默或烙狠話來讓對方退讓。心裡明明知道這是一種對親密關係最有效的破壞性溝通,但每次我一遇到衝突的時候,我時常腦袋一片空白,喉嚨哽塞。
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