February has been a difficult month for me on many levels.
A family health scare brought home just how important it is to live a healthy life and keep a healthy mind. Taking pleasure from the smaller and perhaps ‘taken for granted’ circumstances.
I’ve been guilty of trying to do too much simultaneously for too long, and this has been to the detriment of the effectiveness of my work and my happiness. Sometimes I should just say no!
I recently listened to a number of audio books on the topic of time management, quality of life and similar subjects, and the take-away for me from these is that the power and ability to control what you do, what you don’t do and manage the two is what leads to satisfaction in work and personal life.
Being able to control things is a gift, controlling how much work you do, how much time you allocate to certain things, how much leisure time you take, is really the secret to happiness and satisfaction in life.
Demanding situations occur from time to time, having spent a lot of time pushing for results on a number of aspects, I now realise that all of this effort was for nought. I didn’t control the situation and therefore will always find it hard to become satisfied by it.
As we move from winter to spring, I now take a new focus on the things I can control, seek the opportunities where I can actually make a difference and then revel in the satisfaction of having done so!
More next month!