A challenge always awaits one upon rising early for most of us as we get up to face another day. Most of the time, there is work to be done during the day whether paid or otherwise: Life is so fashioned that we spend a large percentage of it doing things mostly in relation to the benefits that a working life may provide. Mostly an economic viability to be able to do whatever one wants within the usual framework of society. With this being so, almost a third of one’s life is so spent doing so and with a further third spent sleeping this leaves the subject with barely sufficient time to engage in those fun activities which one is taught towards or seeking happiness in a fluid world.
Or there is simply no balanced in life if one further considers travelling time then planning and preparation towards doing a ‘good’ job. It appears that after work, one is exhausted and left with barely sufficient time to refresh and back to being on again. To be ‘On’ again means that the whole process starts all over again. Most people also do a 5 day a week. Others work non-stop around the clock whilst some do night shifts and others irregular shift work.
Amazing that where spends so much time often is not given due attention in preparation time so that one is not a victim of rush, rush and rush. An unplanned work ethic brings about disorganisation and a sense of daily chaos when the subject is faced up with the task to be done. Part of it, Covey has already stated in his 7 habits of highly successful people where the latter tends to have an overall action plan of what is to be done or not to be done. The difference between failure and success is in planning or lack of it. Or as we have observed before that to fail to plan is planning to fail.
Interesting that one spends so much time in planning for a holiday where we spend barely 2 weeks on average whereas zero time on how to create a balance of how to start one’s working day which seems where the subject spends most of one’s working life. That is where, the prudent needs to set aside time and create one’s own routine. To be sure, as always, the intention of this writer is not to provide such a blank time table for everyone to follow but rather to each according to one’s in-situation .
The whole of life is so framed as to follow a certain sense of religiosity, economic development and sense gratification with the aim at being able to keep enjoying oneself and or being able to constantly engaged in those pleasurable activities to the avoidance of the opposite. Or there is a running after that which is transient and in flux at all times whilst everything about and around us turns frantic from the moment of awakening. And so, one lives in this mode at all time or let’s say a pure way of engaging with life in a most hectic form as the subject put on the switch on button which happens daily.
Even from a material perspective, one is still further away from being organised and where this is so, other problems arise. The Sanskrit term ‘aksanikah’, that is not having even a moment to reflect on any aspect of life, let alone the higher purpose of life clearly makes the point of one’s deficiencies in being. There is a case to set time aside for reflection and planning even at the basic level as without a clear strategy one will be at a loss, not knowing what to do or not to do. More than a sad state of affair when the subject is simply entangled and caught up in the realm of the mundane. The symptom of the misfortune, to reiterate, is that one simply fails to properly use the stop, pause and reflect signal. With this being so, one is at a disadvantaged and let’s say clueless how to proceed. All is done haphazardly as per how things appear as the reactionary approach and that is why one is always on the edge in the attempt to relate or engage appropriately. One is at the mercy of circumstance for ever: losing one’s being and self-control. As one becomes edgy, relationships suffer as the subject verbally may throw abuse about without realising that this is so. Verily, a sad state to be but a fact or by product of lack of being there in full consciousness. To be sure, all arises as one is never with it but a question of being led towards it through force of circumstance where one is helpless.
In a more organised mode, one may evade such sad state of affairs. We have already hinted as to how to proceed through reflection mode in that there is a need to be more organised. However, which format this takes will be for the other or reader to decide. The key questions to consider are how does one firstly break free from being submerged in a perpetual environment which coerces us to make deliberate errors? And how to be in a more pro-active mode? Will being so be a hindrance or help towards calming of the self? Further, may one use aspects of self organising as a bridge seeking to take more care of the self that one is? Or is self-realisation is meant only for a few rare souls whilst the rest simply remains cornered into subjugation?
Depends on how one answer some of the above questions posed, the subject may decide what the next step to be but whatever it is, surely it may help in framing a path away from the ways of just being reactionary on towards a more pro-active way calling for caution and careful planning rather than leaving everything to the last moments and react instinctively which sometimes may be useful and at other times leaves a lot to be desired. The guarantee of a proactive way is that one is never taken by surprises. No other may be harmed. Anger and dislike of the moments replaced by a more significant and substantial way of being where calmness and for ever reaching out and not putting down of the other prevails. All indeed a question of choice of how to be!