One of the reasons why some people don’t practice breath awareness meditation is that they feel there is not enough time in the day. How do we find more time to do the practice? This will be discussed: the solution, why it works, and examples of what to do.
The solutions to having enough time to practice breath awareness meditation is to manage your time better. A lot of your time is spent spacing out and on low activities. By reducing the spaces between relevant thoughts and cutting out low activities you can drastically increase your time.
The better you manage your time the better able you are to allocate time to meditate. You will see you have enough time to do breath awareness. Not having enough time will no longer be an excuse.
The following is how you can manage your time better:
- Plan your activities and use the 80/20 rule to prioritize your time. 80/20 rule states that 20 percent of what you do gets 80 percent of the results. Get rid of the activities that have little to negative return on investment and spend more time on activities that have high return on investment. If we are honest with ourselves, we waste so much time on activities with little to negative return on investment like eating and watching tv. We could use that time to practice breath awareness instead. The practice as a lot of wonderful benefits. It reduces fear, pain, stress, anxiety, and negativity. You have more energy to live your life.
- Use writing procedures, checklists, and mind maps to speed up your work. It is a good idea to simplify and get clear on your goals and be consistent everyday instead of wasting time wandering around. Writing procedures, checklists, and mind maps help us get clear on our goals and reach them faster.
- Create reusable assets to multiply your work and money. If you are into slide shows an asset could be something as simple as past saved work in PowerPoint. It has all the transitions, sounds, timings, and images and text place holders. You can use these over again. Build a list of joint venture partners and consumer contacts so you can use them in the future. Build systems and get people to operate them.
- Work on your external environment. Clean and organize it. Your external environment is consistent and owns Nero connection in your head. Your mind will be clearer. Also, you wouldn’t spend a lot of time looking for stuff.
- Develop working memory. Do the same thing repeatedly for mastery to make things easier and faster. Your brain will do more with less effort and time.
- Use small pockets of time so they don’t go to waste. There are small pockets in the day when we result to nothing. We are expecting one big pocket of time to do a work. It doesn’t happen so we don’t do the work. Also, the body doesn’t like doing the same thing for an extend period because of carp tunnel syndrome. Furthermore, the body was designed for movement, and the mind for expansion. We could chip away at our to do list so later we have time to do what we didn’t get done in the moment. If you are on the computer and you need a break instead of doing nothing or a low activity, you could be washing dishes.
- Let your to do list cycle. Your brain is always scanning the world for what it is missing. You can’t be truly happy if you don’t have balance. Make time to do everything in your list. You don’t have to complete everything in one day.
Now that I have discussed ways to manage your time better you are better able to allocate time to practice breath awareness meditation every day. Use the 80/20 rule to prioritize your time. 20 percent of what you do gets 80 percent of the results. It is most important. Use written procedures, checklists, and mind maps to speed up your work. In addition, you can create reusable assets to multiply your work and money. Clean and organize your environment. Achieve mastery through repetition to make a skill easier and faster. Use small pockets of time so they won’t go to waste. Let your to do list cycle. Anytime you think to yourself how you are going to find time to practice breath awareness you know what to do. Use the time saving hacks mentioned.