It’s quite hard to realize how much chance we have at some moments in life. Our focus is on daily routings work and family.
We are non stop working more than 8h a day, and my feeling is that the job once you are off the network, you don’t disconnect right away. It takes quite a while to disconnect totally.
It’s like when you go on PTO, you always have a delay of a couple days before you can say that you have totally disconnected. Is this sensation the result of realizing that we feel great, happy and well positioned in a company?
Probably yes… there are so much to think about and especially there are so much things to think about on a day to day basis. We’d like to cover it all in a timely manner to free up some mind space but it’s impossible within 24h. You have the work time 8h and 8h of sleep. It’s 8h of free space!
Goal is to optimize most of your time on those 8h to get maximum peace of mind time. So you get automation within your life and add convenience as much as you can to reduce chores.
There is a famous citation saying: what is important is not quantity but quality. Quality falls into happiness when time is optimized as much as you can. Getting quality takes time.
The challenge is to anticipate the unanticipated. Easy to say but hard to do.
One thing that I’ve learn a while back when I was a student for being a Project Manager at HETIC school, is to create buffer spaces within the projects. It has a cost for companies. That usually a problem for companies as they prefer to name it differently as it’s seen as lost time not spent by the people that would be working on the projects to accomplish it.
In a family context it’s hardly applicable due to a human behavior discipline. Even on a couple relationships, discipline is sometimes overdriven by some noise tasks surrounding us.
Peace of mind is quite important in our lives at work and at home to lead to happiness. Mindfulness time is required in our daily life to have time to think about our day, month, accomplishments, feelings, sharing, caring moments. Buffer could be a solution. We sometime don’t want to create those moments as we don’t see any value – like a company – but this is the key to happiness from my point of view.
This is an essay on life.
