What If You Could Buy Time? Find Out How

by vanessa | Nov 21, 2018 | motivation

What if you could buy TIME? FIND OUT HOW

We all have twenty-four hours in a day, but what if you could actually buy time? What would you do?

I was watching In Time the other day and it conquered to me how deep the message was. The last time I watched it, I never considered what it actually meant or the implication of the message. Sure, the movie got a mixed bag of reviews, but in essence it represents our society. This is by no means a movie review, but life is all about buying time not in the literal sense. We’re always looking for ways for time to be spread out. Whether it’s more time with a loved, hoping to get more time to be richer or to get to do all things on our to-do list.

Life has become a series of numbers and it all begins with the clock either on the wall or our wrists. There was a time when that wasn’t the case, when every moment was cherished and we relished in being present. That isn’t the case anymore. We’re too busy, to absorbed in what’s happening in our lives that the outside what doesn’t count. I do this as well and I had a light bulb moment when I watched the movie.

The problem is we’re all on a journey, a narrow street and sometimes we walk it alone. Other times we are not sure if we need anyone else, but ourselves to get to our destination. Is the problem not enough time or something else? For other people it probably is. More than ten years ago, I lost friend, we were close in the way teenage girls. You the trend, boys, ranting on about parents and how cruel life was. She healthy and all I did was blink and she was gone. One moment lasted a life time.

I never got to say bye and in that moment when my soul crushed I wished I could buy time. Enough time to say all the things I want to say, but couldn’t. To find the right words to show her how I felt, but that didn’t happen. Sometimes it’s about leaving behind a legacy, honing the skills God gave us and make something out of it. Learning a new skill, language or traveling.

It’s funny when all is said and done, when life has thrown curve balls and age has caught up the one thing we say is I wish I had enough time. We always want more seconds, minutes and hours. It never seems enough, but the honest truth is we all have twenty-four hours and that’s enough time.

So what if we could buy time what would the result be?

Love More

We’re so concerned with wanting more time that we miss out on what we do have. We focus on the negatives instead of trying our best to live in the present. There’s this powerful quote by Hermes, “You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” I purposefully left out the part about doom and gloom, Hermes was a deep philosopher, and that must have come with some baggage as well.

The point of that quote is simple, every moment we’re a new version of ourselves. We have new memories, skills or lessons. Even if it’s as small as learning to be more understanding or learning a new song. We’re beautiful everyday because it’s a new version of ourselves. If we stopped for a second, realized that and welcomed it life would be better.

We would love each other more, be kinder and warmer to each other. Because there’ll never be enough time, even if you had all the money in the world you’d still have twenty-four hours. And those twenty-fours are important because it can either break or build you up.

You might say that’s impossible, but all it takes is one bad day for you to go on a bender. All you need are twenty-four hours to bridge the gap between your loved ones. Your life can change with 1440 minutes and 525,600 minutes can change change someone’s life. So if that’s the case then we should love with all our soul, live a life as if every second and minute counts. Don’t wait for your clock to be running out of time to do something about your life. Don’t let time speed out of your grasp.

Live More

Yes, you’re breathing, but are you truly living. There’s a difference with biding time and making every second count. We’re trained from the time we go to school to watch the clock. That’s all we do, wait for the time when we clock out and go back to our homes. That’s our life. Most people don’t want to live like that, but a lot of us do. We never go out of our comfort zone, never dare do anything risky and refuse to do what scares us.

Until you venture out you’ll never conquer your fear. It doesn’t matter what anyone says, you’ll still remain in the dark. You’ll always remain behind while others race in front of you. Be more to experiences because you never know what will come from doing just that.

Doing something new is terrifying, believe me I know. I’ve made decisions that I thought were the best at the time and only I realize I was afraid of what it all would mean. And with age I’ve come to the realization that life doesn’t happen the way you want it to, but that should never stop you from going out and making ever second count.

If you want to know more about how to live a more balanced life, Project Life Mastery wrote a blog post about it. To truly live, you need to embrace every area of your life. You need to go after what gives you life, because it is there that you will find the key to happiness.

Your Why Should Push You

If you could buy time what would you do? What language would you learn? What passion project would you start? If you had all the time in the world then where’d you be? This question is a difficult one to answer. It could be that option seems impossible so often we don’t even think about it at all. It should drive you, when that happens you won’t.

Most of have us have no idea how to use our why to go after our dreams and that is because we don’t understand the bigger picture. Your why is simply what drives you and this all comes down to your passions. If you are afraid of going after your dreams, I wrote a blog post about why people don’t go after their passions.

“Oh God to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived.” David Thoreau

“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without purpose.” Miles Munroe.

You have only one life, there’s always the choice with what you do with that life, but if you want to live a life worthy living then let your passion push. To truly live you have to pass the obstacles in front of you and once you do that your life will be full of purpose. Will all of us let our why drive us, no. The problem is that fear will stop us before we even leave the door. It will stop us where we stand and until we push fear out the way we’ll never make it out of the door.

Time is a commodity that we take advantage of, if we could buy time then would life be easier? Does it mean that if we had the choice would we make better decisions or would time run out quickly? The truth is even if we had all the time in the world it would always run out because we don’t appreciate the opportunities laid before us. We only have one life and to live a great life we need to follow our purpose because only then will we truly live.

If you had all the time in the world what would you do with it, how would you live your life? You still have time so go out there and live a life of purpose.

KEEP PUSHING

V ANESSA

5 Reasons Why People Don’t Follow their Passions

by vanessa | Oct 17, 2018 | Entrepreneurs, motivation

5 Reasons Why People Don’t Follow Their Passions

People are often terrified to follow their passions because of fear of failure and they believe they won’t make it.

We are taught from the time we are in elementary that getting a good job is what counts. For the most part it does and that is the reason why most people don’t follow their passions. Not because they can’t but due to feeling as if they are meant to go down the same road as everyone else. This is the reason why a lot of people don’t end up doing what they love.

There’s this belief that we will struggle to actually make it while our peers are doing jobs that pay the bills. We seem to not realize that life as we know it is not the same as it was. Everything is different and following your passions won’t lead down the wrong route. There are five main reasons why people don’t follow their passions so here we go;

They Don’t Know What Their Passions Are

People spend so much time living other people’s dreams and watching other people go after their passions that they don’t have time to figure it out. We all go through a routine from the time we learn to walk. We are told what’s next in the line and people go with that. Sometimes we forget that they are five reasons why we don’t follow our passions and it is the same for everyone.

We believe that what our parents tell us because we have been conditioned to follow that route. We are told what we are good at and so we believe that’s what we should be doing with our time. Many people have absolute no idea because they have never actually thought about it.

They were handed catalogs from schools, told that getting into a good program would change their lives and they found themselves doing something they never wanted to do in the first place. When something is your passion, you never lose interest in doing it.

The best way to identify finding your passion is to be curious enough to find out. There could be something that you have untapped that you are good at. Whatever it may be, keeping digging within. It could be something that you used to do as a kid or maybe it’s something you do for your friends or family. Your passion could be interior design.

Write down a list of talents you have and go through the list and determine what you might enjoy. You could enjoy singing, but you don’t want to be a singer. Another talent you have might have is landscaping, but it’s not what you want to do with your life. What is the thing that you wouldn’t mind doing for the rest of your life?

Passion Doesn’t Put Food On The Table

One of the main reasons why people don’t follow their passions is because of the adage saying that passion doesn’t put food on the table. Many people see following your passion as a fruitless pursuit.

Images of struggling artists come to their mind. There are so many stories you hear of people who went nowhere and are living with their relatives. You may feel hesitant after all if Bill, Henry, and your neighbor couldn’t do it then you might not want to test your luck. Many people forget that Bill or your neighbor might have just not followed the right steps and instead got stuck.

Following your passion doesn’t have to be like playing the Russian Roulette, it’s all about understanding money will soon follow when you put yourself out there. Action is far more important than any monetary value you can attach to it. When you put in the time and the effort then what you create from your passion will bring the money.

I Don’t Have Time

Time always seems to be at the top of the list when people give excuses. Successful and unsuccessful people have the same amount of seconds, minutes and hours. Many people make the excuse that they don’t follow their passions because of limited time. We all have twenty-four hours a day, some people wish there was more time and others wish time would just slow down.

What if the problem is you are too busy? And just can’t do anything else. If everyday when you have breaks you work on your dream, whether it is just an hour or thirty minutes. You would be amazed at the results. What if all you want to do is relax and don’t feel up for it? If you truly want to change your life then you must set aside time to change your life. If you want to live life on your terms then you do whatever you can to achieve it. Sleep less, read more and focus your energy on your passion.

Fear Of Failure

Fear are false events appearing real. When I heard that everything became crystal clear, you can protect yourself by never attempting to go after your dream, but you will regret it. You will look at your life and wonder why. Failure and mistakes are part of the natural order, every successful person fails. Take Hollywood A-listers for example, some of their movies are so great there are Oscar movies. Then a movie comes along and it flops, but that doesn’t stop them from doing another movie that could be risky.

Best Selling authors sometimes don’t produce best selling books and they have to go back to brass tactics. Chefs mess up recipes, but they keep experimenting and finding innovative ways to do something better. Some business ventures do not work. The important thing is to understand failure is not permanent, it’s only temporary. Failing doesn’t define you, but not doing anything does. Fear is like a high school bully and the best way to deal with it is head-on. I explain how you can do that right here.

Here are four fears that are stopping you from chasing after your dreams, if you want to stop being afraid to live your best life, learn what these four fears are.

Not Sure How To Start

Sometimes the easiest response to not following your passion is because you don’t know how to start. We all at one point in time grapple with not knowing where to start. The difference with those who are successful is they do it anyway without having the whole plan in place. Ideas float at the top of heads and are like candy canes, we see it, but refuse to pluck it.

So what happens is we never do anything because we think some magical being will come and give us a manuscript or how to guide. Everything will make sense, people will break out in dance and there will be a catchy song to represent the moment.

Hate to burst your bubble, but that only happens in movies, and not your normal kind of movies. The ones where no one has a clue what it is about. Even if you have no clue what to do next, go with what your gut says even if people think you are crazy. When you look deep inside yourself – you will know what the next possible move will be. Don’t go researching ideas until you have a clue what to do next. It will only confuse you and that will stop you from pursuing your passions.

What reasons have you told yourself to stop going for your dreams?

Keep Pushing

Vanessa

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