Recently, while celebrating a friend’s birthday, we happened to come across a wise retired class instructor who happily served us with three wise advices as a gratitude gift to the piece of birthday cake we send him. It turned out that the wisdom he shared was way more than the price of the cake and our love for us.
He wanted to share the 4 most important things for better living, but as he had some class to visit, he could only finish up 3 of them. So, here they are, wisdom from a retired golden heart.
1. Find out your time wasters
What could be the best time management advice on planet earth? It could be just this: Find out your time wasters. Time is limited and we decide how to spend our time. It is priceless, so we can never earn it back.
The best way to master time is by deciding where we are spending time that doesn’t include productivity. Time management doesn’t mean working like hell and not having any fun. It is about finding out where we are wasting our time, apart from entertainment.
We may just realize that some of us, spend not just hours, but days procrastinating, sleeping on the couch and doing just about nothing. Time wasters are like tiny holes in the bucket. They are the unimportant channels for the outflow of our time.
Instead of making schedules and finding out reasons to procrastinate, why not find out things that are making our life tough by wasting our time.
2. Know more than what you are supposed to
The professor knew that we all came from an accounting background and we did not have much stuff to talk except accountancy and taxation rules. He asked us all to read more than just accountancy and tax rules.
He advised us to read novels, stories, science, newspapers, philosophy and anything we can in our spare times (which is highly scarce and either spent on writing blog posts or sleeping).
He said that because he strongly believed that understanding a single thing is never enough and that never is a master. It takes from you the joy of evolution. It makes you a silent frog in the community around you. Though I don’t totally agree with this, what he said did make a difference to how I perceive knowledge.
3. Take care of your body to use your mind well
He shared a fun example to prove this. He says, say you have a car, tank full of petrol but with flat tyres, you won’t be able to get anywhere. The car is almost useless. I am feeling quite hypocrite here because I don’t care much about my body. I feel like it takes care of itself, youth power probably.
But he is right. Without a healthy body a healthy mind is much to useless. You have lots of time, you have lots of knowledge but you are not fit enough to use you time or knowledge, you are loosing your life.
I wonder how people acquire wisdom. Maybe, all of us have wisdom and understanding, but don’t have people to listen to our ranting or maybe, it comes with age. But that doesn’t actually matter.
A wisdom received is a wisdom treasured. Try to use the wisdom you find and if you can’t, search for wisdom you can use easily. That’s quite a good wisdom to have, what say? Wisdom flower Illustration by Koppdelaney via Flickr.