a straw in a haystack

time!

We all have the same 24 hours in the day, and yet some of us extract something out of every second and most of us, don't even have a reflection to look back at the end of the day. 

So why is the blog titled 'straw in a hay stack'? Well, it's aphorism. In a day of 24 hours, we say ,"Oh! I don't have time. Its like you have a cookie jar anterior to you and you say ,"I can't find cookies."

One thing that we all seldomly succeed at is the act of using time mindfully. Its human nature to presuppose the abundance of time. Imagine its Friday and your teacher said ," I will submit the assignments on Monday." then assume your favorite IPL team has a match the same day: be honest, what would you consider as a priority? Of course the match!. You know that you have 1 whole Sunday to do the assignment and therefore it is absolutely rational to give primacy to the match. Now, wouldn't it be better if you effectuate the task of completing the assignment on Friday and just study something else on Sunday or wouldn't it be a better alternative to watch the match on Sunday fully rather than watching half of the match on Friday and then sleeping because you have school on Saturday? Humans tend to chase temporary satiation. You have the time but not the skill of mindful time utilization and calibrating priorities (carefully assess, set, or adjust (something abstract)). 

Now let's ventilate the subject of 'calibrating priorities': 

"Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make everyday, and those decisions are determined by our priorities." - Myles Munroe

setting priorities is extremely vital for clarity in life. Whether you're making your to do list, or deciding what homework should you do first, which desert to eat first in the buffet or even with your relationships, you have to decide and conclude eventually, about what matters to you more. There are a plethora of factors that affect the order of your priorities. Just assume a situation where you are deciding a restaurant for your birthday- to some people, the taste matters more, to some the ambience, prices to some the dining style: but if taste matters to you, do you completely ignore the other factors? No. Just as you wouldn't completely ignore the other factors if taste is your priority, you cannot ignore the things that come at the end of your priority list. A priority list just defines the amount of importance and time to be given to certain tasks. Even if, lets say- completing 10 math questions was at the top of your list and learning a new ukulele chord was at the bottom; this doesn't give you authority to lay back after you finish the math problem! you still have to extract 15 minutes from your day and learn that chord. Even making it to your priority list is a big thing, the chord made it to your list and so it is a liability for you to portray a certain degree of notability to it. Imagine that now arises a situation for you to go to a ceremony in 1 hour, now you cannot afford to find 15 minutes for that one chord; so now is the time where your priority list proclaims it's significance. Now it is obvious that you gotta complete your math.  Its fascinating how so many learnings can be drawn out from the simple affairs in life.

I would now suggest you to read about the Parkinson's Law.

Thanks for reading:) you made it till the end!