A Lesson About Life

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Unfortunately, we are not covering real estate or mortgages this week due to a topic that feels quite pressing for the start of a new year. The last years of our lives have led us to working more (too much more!), being constantly connected thanks to evolving smartphones, but to what price? As human beings, we are not taking mental breaks, burning out at work, and feeling fairly miserable most of the time. Shouldn’t we give it a chance to change things?We are now in the middle of January and in twelve months’ time, we begin a new decade. The transition of 2019 to 2020 has to allow us to make big but fresh changes to our lives as we enter a new decade. It’s a chaotic world we live in but there is plenty we can do to make our lives less hectic and mentally draining.

This calendar year should teach us to start cutting unnecessary things out of our lives, no matter what it is. So much of our mental stress is not worth it and we can definitely live happy and productive lives with much less around us, whether it is toxic people that don’t help us get better, or material things that have no value in our daily lives and our homes.

We really think the first problem we have is time spent on our smartphones – it is way too much! Of course, we have people close to us that we need to talk to regularly, work email to read and answer and even social media to keep up with news and friends. However, our use of all these things is well over what these gadgets were initially designed for. We could be better off using only certain times in the day to hang out on our smartphones to send necessary messages & make necessary calls.

Of course, we do not expect any of these reductions to happen overnight, but maybe by the end of December our society can make progress in terms of mental wellbeing and productivity. Over the course of the year people may realize how many things they can cut out or reduce from their lives which can give them extra time and space to take an extra breath and focus on their own selves.

When we are at work, electronic communication should be straight to the point and less explaining more than needs to be. Work itself can be so much more efficient if we don’t overdo things, especially with in person meetings that don’t end up covering much ground.

Finally, let’s about about busy-ness – not business in the commercial world, but people being busy in general! Social-status wise, constantly being ‘busy’ makes you look good to your peers and social circle, but are you getting alot of good out of always being pre-occupied, or just forcing it to feel less available? It’s not always a good thing to be busy; you mind and body need a break but sometimes, there are a lot of important things to get done and this is normal, but pretending to always be on the go for little to no reason can’t be a good look in the long term.

Eliminate and reduce things in your life that you don’t need. Try having a more simple and efficient life in whatever you are doing. You will feel better and achieve plenty. Don’t forget, less is sometimes more!