How Are You Living Your One Amazing Life?
High-quality moments matter most
Today’s workplaces (and our lives) operate at hyper-speed.
Quick, often automated actions are all around us. With the emergence of even greater technology, our digital, virtual work and lives will only speed up.
We are rushing to the future faster than ever. However, faster is not always better — or satisfying.
The quality of the moments we are living is what matters most.
It’s not the speed at which we do things that will define us. It is what we do in each moment that will define us and our lives.
Invest in what matters in each moment by slowing down, investing in it, and serving others. Drink in the moments that matter most, and you will live a life truly worth living.
Choose to live a life of high-quality moments.
Lesson to Learn
We are known by and defined by our moment-to-moment decisions and actions.
What we do is much more important than how fast we do it.
It is said that speed kills. When our lives are continuously sped up, we miss the blessing of each moment and, most importantly, the people we care about in it. Life is a compilation of the moments we are living.
Slowing down and savoring them will give us a lifetime of worthwhile and fulfilling moments.
Today’s world is both exciting and exhausting. We can move so quickly through our day, seeking the next exciting experience, that we miss the smaller moments. Our brains are wired to respond to dopamine. We can quickly rush from dopamine hit to dopamine hit.
This speeds up our lives and leads us to believe our life is exciting. But is it? Or is it just fast and increasingly meaningless?
What we do is much more important than how fast we do it. Slow down to care for others. Slow down to listen to others. Slow down to let your guard down so others can truly see and spend time with you.
Answer for Me
My life has never been faster.
In the virtual world, it is easy to cram more and more into my day. My daily routine is full of more events, more meetings, and more work than ever before. I can even be in two meetings at the same time.
However efficient this is, it is not effective and satisfying. How I experience each moment truly matters to me and others. Too many times, I have learned, the sped-up moments are not life-giving to me or others.
I have begun to evaluate my moments in my faster and faster life.
The moments themselves are much more important to me than how many I have and how productive I am.
This requires me to identify who and what is most important in my life. It starts with critical questions that I answer and reaffirm daily. I do want a more efficient and productive life. However, I want the moments to mean more as well.
This balancing act requires me to slow down, evaluate what I am doing, and decide how to act going forward.
Action
Live intentionally in each moment. To do so, you must first answer some vital questions.
Who matters the most to me? What matters the most to me? How should I act as I live my life? What do I value? How will I live today? What are the moments I most need to live fully?
Evaluate your moments based on their usefulness to others and your mission.
Use the questions like those above and those you come up with to guide your life.
Daily Actions
Slow down and enjoy your moments more. Be effective as well as efficient by slowing down more.
When something is noteworthy, spend more time than you have allotted for it.
A schedule is only helpful when it serves the overall purpose of your mission and your life.
Make sure you are building life-long and giving relationships with people in your life. Life is made up of people and experiences more so than accomplishments and things.
Your moments make up your life, so give them your utmost attention. If you do so, you will be living a life worth remembering.
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