Personal Development And Wasting Your Time And Energy

Right now, you’re living new day – a day that’s never happened before, a day that will never be repeated. Now is a new moment. And, in each new moment, you have a choice. And on your choice depends your personal development. You have a choice in regard to the thoughts that you are paying attention to just at the present moment. Are those thoughts simply random? Perhaps they’re negative thoughts? Have they anything to do with what you should be doing at this moment in time? Are they positive thoughts (better than negative ones but they’re still just thoughts). The thoughts you’re focused on are distracting you from doing. Don’t waste your energy, ignore your thoughts, but leave space for the flights of fancy to surface – because they are not thoughts, but inspiration and inspiration only comes to the clear mind.

In this new moment, it’s your choice as to your behavior and actions (more commonly reactions) too. And, depending on what you choose, you can quite literally change your life. How much energy have you simply thrown away already today? How much time have you squandered sitting in front of your PC’s screen, staring blankly? How much of your precious and vital energy have you wasted gossiping about and delighting in the misdeeds or misfortune of others? You’ve probably misspent some precious time shuffling you’re “To Do” list until there’s no time left to do! Or how much of your time and energy have you mis-invested in doing things you just should not be doing – like surfing the net for things that have nothing to do with anything important, reading emails that were copied to you to cover someone’s backside, wading through the sordid details of domestic violence that pad out each day’s newspapers? Every moment that you waste is a moment that you will never have again. And what we achieve in life is the sum total of how we spend each precious moment.

At least, in reflecting on some of these searching questions you might begin to realize just how much of your life is misspent on doing things that are holding you back from living the life that you want. But these are energy-wasters that you’re aware off – there’s something even worse going on. How much energy are you wasting and you don’t even know? Because, unless your subconscious mind is immersed in profitable activity in the present moment, it is still happily wandering around your childhood years, thinking that those childhood events are actually happening now – and you’ve no idea whatsoever that that’s what’s actually happening. And this is the waste of energy that divorces us all from the opportunities of the now, from the reality of the now, from the abundance of the now.

So, ask yourself this question. Do you want to change your life? Then ask yourself if what you are doing now, in the context of what you really want out of life, is the very best investment of your energy. If it isn’t, don’t do it.