Personal growth: So many projects so little time October 5, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Goal Setting and Realization.Tags: "psychological time", life, personal development potential, personal growth, phiosophy, psychology, self-actualization, writing
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In envisaging our progress in self-actualization, we can spend too much of our life energy in what Eckhart Tolle describes as the “psychological time” of the future or of the past.
Time spent in the imaginary world of the future is particularly problematic for our self-improvement productivity.
Daydreaming about our future projects is not the same as actually making concrete plans now for accomplishing them, nor is it the same as starting a project right now, no matter how small the steps we might take.
Intellectually we know that the only time in which we can actually accomplish anything is now, or the present moment, but it’s tough to put into practice.
To liberally paraphrase Mark Twain, many of us could probably say, “My life has been full of many, many admirable projects and goals, the majority of which, as of right now, have yet to be accomplished.”
Most of us would need ten lifetimes to accomplish everything that we want to, especially if we have numerous eclectic interests.
But if we limit ourselves to “doing” in the now instead of “imagining doing” in the future we, of course, are significantly restricting the amount we can actually accomplish.
There will never be enough “now” time to do everything we want.
Which means that we need to make some hard choices and set priorities.
Now.
—Dennis Mellersh
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