We often try to do everything at once, and we work hard. Working, caring for the family - all of this often takes up a lot of our time, but there is also something else. These are habits that have become part of our life and have already become a part of it. We may not even notice them - and spend a lot of time on these actions.
Think about what can be such an action for you and what can save energy and give you a good mood, you just have to get rid of it. Here are just a few examples of such actions and habits:
Too much coffee, or coffee with a cigarette
A cup of coffee in the morning, if you are used to it, is great. But ten cups, which are drunk every half hour under the pretext that you did not get enough sleep, and at work crunching is a completely different matter. It seems to us that coffee gives us vigor, but in fact, it just spurs our nervous system.
Harmful donuts, sweets and sandwiches eaten on the run, often in lieu of normal meals
Why this happens: fast carbohydrates can add us only a couple of extra centimeters in the waist area. They give vigor only for a while, and there are no vitamins and minerals in them at all, not to mention the fact that "fast food" is not always prepared in perfect cleanliness.
Attempts to do everything in two or three hours that we have after work.
Trying to squeeze everything and everyone into 10-15 minutes of time, for example, trying to fry cutlets, talking to a client on the phone, packing lunch for her husband for work tomorrow, and trying to explain physics to the child at the same time. It seems that we are so saving time and effort - but in fact, this kind of multitasking slows us down. We fall from fatigue, the cutlets burn, the boss is dissatisfied, and the child has not understood the physics. Moreover, over time, we can “juggle” responsibilities less and less, because everything has limits.
Why multitasking only hurts: such attempts to do everything in a short period of time greatly overload the nervous system, and being in this mode constantly drains it very much. We just work hard, not resting.
We do not plan what we really want to do - and we do not do
It's Friday night and you're frantically trying to plan your weekend. Depart tomorrow morning, and you're all over the apartment looking for a beach towel and swimsuit that should have been here. As a result, it turns out that the swimsuit is small, and the beach towel is never found. All this takes a huge amount of time and effort. Worse, it keeps you postponing and postponing something interesting. It seems, where should we go to Tula to our beloved cousin, if we have a baby for six months? Time passes, other difficulties appear, a child goes to school or a second child appears - and you never went to Tula. We postpone and postpone our plans, we revolve in a cycle of small everyday problems - and they all do not end - and will never end.
Why is this happening? We spend a lot of energy planning and implementing the things that we need to accomplish: writing the quarterly report, buying the necessary drugs for the grandmother, or the vaccinations needed for the daughter. But for some reason, we cannot find strength for things that are important for us, but "optional" things.
What to do? Discuss what you want with the whole family and set goals. This is an inexplicable paradox: we easily set goals when it comes to work, and do not do it in our daily life. But this is also very important! Set a family goal (for example, a trip to Tula to visit relatives who have not been seen for three years) - and there will be money for the trip, and magically there will be time too. Or maybe someone from the household will help collect things and find a thermos for the trip.
Internet
How many people have said to the world - the fact remains: the Internet eats up a huge amount of time and effort, but many people still continue to surf the Internet instead of resting “just for a minute”. To be honest, this is my weak point too. It would seem that she just glanced in for a minute - and an hour passed. I found one way out for myself: the Internet is strictly on time, in no case before bedtime. I try to focus on positive emotions, and I try to exclude what deprives me of calmness and sleep. If I work at a computer, then I try to open only the sites that are needed for work, and not "hang" on them. Perhaps other scenarios will work for you.
Complete this list: maybe you have some other activities that take time and energy - try to choose one first, and think about how to change it. If possible, make calls at work at a specific time: set aside 15 minutes before dinner and half an hour after dinner, and explain physics to your child after the calls. Or make meat casserole instead of cutlets, this will save precious minutes and energy. For the weekend, you can prepare a little bit every weekday, entrusting something to your husband or child, and instead of a harmful donut, you can have a snack with a carrot or a banana - you can throw them into your bag in a couple of seconds.
The most difficult thing is probably with coffee, but there is a way out too. Try to gradually reduce the amount of coffee you drink. Drink more water, try to ventilate the room where you work more often - often what we mistake for fatigue is a lack of fresh air.
Turn bad habits into your allies - and you will see how you can do much more, and you have a good mood more often and in any weather.
