Had the lifespan of human beings bee restricted to just 20 years, man would not have invented medicines, buildings and machines. We would have still been in some primitive age.
On the other hand, had the average lifespan been 200 years, our civilization would have speeded up at the double rate. Imagine Einstein, Newton, Edison and Louis Pasteur living for another 100 years.
We probably would have found a cure for cancer, AIDS and may be would have even started living on other planets!
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We cannot increase our lifespan, but surely can increase its productivity. How early one starts in life is important than how long one lives. We are all aware that all great people including leaders, players, painters, musicians, writers and scientists started their career at an early age.
Wisdom comes with age but for some people it is otherwise.
Improve your X- factor (talent and skill) from early age. Machines lying idle develop rust. After completing education, keep yourself busy even while searching for a job, for if you don’t, then you start considering yourself a waste and slowly get depressed. Gradually you start to ‘enjoy’ the state of being idle. Get a job, however small it may be. It will be a bonus if your job is ‘career’ and even more if you consider yourself a ‘professional’.
SAVING TIME:
Suppose our average working age is 18,000 days, and our productive time per day is nine hours.
If you wake up an hour early everyday, you are increasing your productive time by approximately 2,000 days!
Another way of increasing your productive hours is to prepare a chart with each column representing an activity that includes going to washroom, traveling reading, watching movies, talking with friends, TV, browsing Internet, etc.
Be as specific as possible. By the end of the week, you will have a clear overall view of how you spent your time. Now start evaluating the return on all these ‘time expenditures’, the type of people you spent time with, the gains that you received from those activities like entertainment, gossiping and acquiring knowledge.
The more you evaluate your time allocation and the return on time investment; you will get a clear view of how far away you are from your targets. Desires are different from targets.
“Did this activity take me closer to my objectives?”
“Is this the person with whom I spent long hours, a loser or winner?”
“What better alternative can I substitute for this time block?”
The more you ask yourself the more it helps your growth.
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