The average life is 4,000 weeks long.
Habang lumilipas ang mga natitirang linggo ng ating buhay, we live with the anxiety na hindi tayo magkakaroon ng sapat na oras upang gawin ang lahat ng kailangan nating gawin o nais gawin.
Oliver Burkeman calls this “existential overwhelm.”
If you try to eliminate existential overwhelm gamit ang time management systems and efficiency hacks, you’ll run into the “efficiency trap.” The faster you clear your deck of things you need to do, tulad ng mga emails na kailangan mong sagutin, tasks you need to complete, at mga bagay na kailangan mong linisin at ayusin, the faster your deck is filled with new things to do.
Kung efficiency ang iyong goal, hindi mo makakamit ang peace of mind dahil you will always be playing catch up.
Ang pakabalisa mula sa existential overwhelm, ang kabiguan generated by the efficiency trap, at ang pressure to fill your remaining weeks with activity ay nagiging sanhi ng iyong limitatong oras sa planetang ito na unnecessarily stressful.
Kung gusto mong alisin ang existential overwhelm, iwasan ang efficiency trap, at i-enjoy ang iyong natitirang linggo while living a productive life, here’s how:
Eliminate existential overwhelm
The modern world provides us with an inexhaustible supply of things that seem worth doing, na humahantong sa isang napakalalim na bucket list. The irony is that the more we want to do, the less we accomplish because the more activities we can choose from, the more we overthink, perpetually plan, and live in a state of existential overwhelm.
Tanggalin ang existential overwhelm sa pamamagitan ng pagpapanatili ng isang “open” and “closed” life list. Capture everything na gusto mong gawin balang araw on the “open” list (ang mga negosyong gusto mong simulan, skills na gusto mong matutunan, mga bansang gusto mong bisitahin, etc.).
Ngayon, ilipat ang three to five items from the “open” list to the “closed” list, and do NOT look at the “open” list hanggang sa makumpleto mo or forever abandon one of the goals on your “closed” list.
Kapag nailipat mo na ang three to five items from your “open” list to your “closed” list, ganap na tanggapin na you may never complete the items on your “open” list.
After emotionally accepting you may never get to the items on your “open” list, ang tanging alalahanin mo ay ang pagkuha ng tatlo hanggang limang bagay mula sa iyong “closed” na listahan bago ka mamatay.
Bonus benefit:
Kapag mayroon kang “closed” list, you’re less likely to procrastinate dahil alam mo na ang tanging paraan to make room for exciting new goals is to get an item off your “closed” list upang lumikha ng isang vacancy for a new life goal.
Avoid the efficiency trap
Bilang isang Pinoy na highly driven, you want to be great at everything you do. Gayunpaman, if you take the time to be great at low‐value activities will waste many of your 4,000 weeks.
Sa halip na maging mahusay sa lahat ng bagay, practice “strategic underachievement.” Tukuyin ang lahat ng mga low‐return activities you must do to uphold your responsibilities at home and work. Pagkatapos ay tingnan ang bawat isa sa mga aktibidad na iyon at tanugnin ang iyong sarili, “What is the absolute bare minimum I can do so I can make time for what matters most?”
- Maaari mo bang linisin ang iyong bahay isang beses sa isang linggo, stop cleaning at 80% clean, and still feel satisfied?
- Can you cut your lawn half as often at panatilihin pa rin ang iyong bakuran?
- Can you take twice as long to respond to email messages without angering anyone?
Malalaman mo na doing “just enough” and being “good enough” at most activities ay nagbibigay daan sa iyo to stay on top of your responsibilities at lumikha ng oras para sa kung ano ang pinakamahalaga. Limitado ang iyong oras, so reduce your standards in many areas of life, make tradeoffs, and embrace strategic underachievement so you can be excellent in a select few areas.
“When you decide in advance what things you’re going to bomb…you remove the sting of shame.”
Jon Acuff, author of Finish, says
Enrich your remaining weeks
The busier you are trying to fill your remaining weeks with activity, the faster life will pass by. Ngunit kung bubuo ka ng habit of practicing “last time” reflections, you can subjectively slow down time, eliminate busyness, and savor your remaining weeks.
Hindi natin alam kung kailan matatapos ang ating buhay, so we should assume every experience is happening for the last time. This may sound gloomy, bgunit kapag naranasan mo ang bawat activity as if it’s the last time, you stop rushing from activity to activity and soak in your experience.
When you treat a kiss with your partner or a cup of coffee with a friend as if it’s the last one, you’ll lose yourself in the moment and stop worrying about the passage of time.
“(Attempting to master your time and urgently complete tasks) makes it all but impossible to experience ‘deep time,’ that sense of timeless time which depends on forgetting the abstract yardstick and plunging back into the vividness of reality instead.”
– Oliver Burkeman
Author: The Pinoy Engineer
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