Goal of the day: 160 words. Written: 310.
You may be thinking in your head right now, like "Pah, what?", "But I have to do more!" or "What nonsense are they telling me here?". Maybe. If so, don't worry, I won't judge you.
I will be careful not to do that.
But for some of us, our lives are like a big Graphomania. It's that big part of the book of life, crammed with who knows what and why. Blah, blah, blah. Everyday, boring. Goals, improvement, something else. In a word.
Compare:
A) You can work around the clock getting caught up in a whirlwind of activities and achieving nothing worthwhile.
b) Or you can do just a few things, that will use fewer of your hours, but these milestones will leave a lasting imprint on your life.
What do you choose? What would you like to choose? What sounds nicer?
Of course, it's not that simple. Doing less doesn't always mean that what gets done will be better. Sometimes doing less will mean doing too little until you figure out a better way to survive.
...But maybe it's worth trying to do only what is most important?
Compare your life to writing - do you want to write 950-ties a novel of thousands of words that nobody might even read... Would you like to concentrate on writing a short but worthwhile book, like 26,6 thousands of words in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea?
You should work less and do it sensibly.
So if you are writing a letter to a friend, don't write it just for the sake of writing it. If you're visiting your grandparents or parents, be with them, not "working" on something on Facebook. Or even if you are browsing on Facebook, then write or upload something new, rather than bouncing back and forth like a cow on the spam you've already created.
If you work all your life, when will you be able to enjoy the joy of life? When you die? Or in old age, when it hurts because, well, you're old?
Enjoy. And do less.
Less noise and more action. Do what lasts, not what disappears after one drunken weekend. Tinginiauk. But this exhortation does not mean "do nothing"; it means "do only what is worth doing".
Lazy,
Daniel