Doris Lessing writes, “We all of us have limited amounts of energy, and I am sure the people who are successful have learned, either by instinct or consciously, to use their energies well instead of spilling them about. And this has to be different for every person, writers or otherwise. I know writers who go to parties every night and then, recharged instead of depleted, happily write all day. But if I stay up half the night talking, I don’t do so well the next day. Some writers like to start work as soon as they can in the morning, while others like the night or—for me almost impossible—the afternoons. Trial and error, and then when you’ve found your needs, what feeds you, what is your instinctive rhythm and routine, then cherish it.”
I’m surprised I never realized that we’ve so little time, when it fundamentally comes to the acute sense of urgency. MIU taught me the essence of time-investment. These days, I’m curious how successful people on the top of the Maslow’s pyramid harnesses, optimizes and savors theirs.
Very few or worst no one tells us that
We must try to understand the person in each of us, specially our ego.
We must invest time instead of spending all that we have in a day.
We must be okay with discomforts and challenges and pressure and all the things that could go against our own will. In short, we must be okay with not being okay.
We must be okay if things didn’t pan out the way we anticipated.
We must be cool about all the beautiful shits that pinches and pokes us time=to-time.
Namaste.