“There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate, to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like. It’s my contention that going to work on Friday in jeans and T-shirt isn’t really getting to the nub of the issue”.
Journaling is an easy daily practice which you can start today! It practically requires a low budged, close to zero, a dedicated time ranging from 5 minutes to 30 minutes and no previously required abilities. Nonetheless, the benefits it brings, from an emotional, mental, health and development point of view, are priceless.
Time management has always been one of the most challenging issues to be dealt with, especially nowadays, when the sense of time passed is one of the most commonly experienced feelings. The rush of day-to-day life became the struggle for reaching that sense of living the moment. At some point in life, every person should have gone to a time management class, read a book, or used an electronic day planner to organize, or to prioritize time.
Most of the time, we are all so caught up in the fast moving currents of our daily activities that we barely get to take a deep breath and think either about what is happening or about where we are heading to.
Imagine yourself climbing a ladder made out of ten steps. The highest step is, ideally, where you want to be in life. But at which step are you at this point? This is, roughly, the question whose answer is presented in the World Happiness Report, after surveying people in 158 nations. The point where you envision yourself to be on the ladder is your level of happiness. The higher you are up the ladder, the happier you are. Conversely, the closer to the ground you are, the lower your level of happiness is.