Stop watching. Start doing

More content is loaded on to YouTube in 60 days than has ever been broadcast in America for 60 years.

Keep scrollin' scrollin' scrollin' scrollin'

How many hundreds of miles do you think you've scrolled in your lifetime?

The problem with social media is that there's no 'stopping-cues'. In comparison say to a book (where you might come to the end of a chapter and decide whether you want to continue or not), or watching a tv program (where it ultimately ends or you finish a box-set or series), but with social media you can avail of endless scrolling through timelines that don't offer a similar stopping-cue. The box-set binges pale in comparison to the timeline binge.

On Twitter, new content is being produced quicker than you can ever read what’s already being posted.

You'll never catch up with it all.

The 80/20 rule

I find this actually allows me to stop stressing when assignments are due and just in everyday jobs of life.

 

This rule - also known as 'The Pareto Principle' or 'The Law of the Vital Few' - basically states that 80 percent of the value you will receive - will come from 20 percent of your actual activities.

 

''The principle was suggested by management thinker Joseph M. Juran. It was named after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of income in Italy was received by 20% of the Italian population. The assumption is that most of the results in any situation are determined by a small number of causes.''                                                                    
                                           (Wikipedia)

 

Hence, you start to realise that a lot of what you do is probably not as useful or necessary as you think. So, you can stop 'arse-in' about the place doing shit that probably won't even make a difference to the end result. You can drop; or at least vastly decrease the time you spend on a whole bunch of things, allowing you to have more time and energy. Which you could focus on those things that really bring you value, happiness, and fulfilment in your life.

154 seconds of the 80/20 Rule
 

Get to the God Damn Point!!

Struggling to get your point across? Beatin' round the bush a little too much? Like the sound of your own voice more than the people around you? Don't know when to shut up? No, not just Irish politicians...everyone. Try using the 'STAR' format to reduce your 'waffle'. It can be useful for putting a logical structure on examples or stories you have to tell such as in a job interview.

 



He spoke more crap than a turd salesman

Situation: describe the situation or problem.

 

Task: describe the tasks that the situation required.

 

Action: describe the actions undertaken to complete the task successfully + any obstacles overcome.

 

Result: highlight outcomes achieved.

 

 

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Good Outcome:  ''You sir have just been hired!''
Bad Outcome:    ''I want you to finish the sentence in the next five seconds or start running!!!''

Googly eyed for what?

I decided to reconsider the amount of time I've realised that I invest in television.

What do I get out of it?



It's so easy to do nothing at all and just flake there while time gets eaten up . Don't get me wrong, I'd be the first person to watch a marathon of some box-set and the rest when I'm hung-over. But what of the 'psychically sober days'? when I could be applying myself to something that I might possibly be able to benefit from in the future.



''Coming up next, a naked celebrity has to live in a barn full of tramps...''

About 3 hours of TV a day would work out to be 45.5 days per year. 45 days of my year spent watching a TV!! ffs!  Damn you...you big electric b**tard!!

Further,

If I had an average of 6 hours sleep per night, that would amount to 91 days.

If I work 5 days a week for 8 hours = 86 days. Perhaps even 1 hour total to commute = 15 days

45 days (TV) + 91 days (Sleep; essential obviously) + 86 days (Job) + 15 days (Commute) = 237 days.

365-237 = 128 days (give or take) of actual doing.....whatever it is ye do.

Also, on top of this there's the rampant commercialism to persuade you to buy junk ye don't need and the fact that most the content on TV is garbage. Just some random thoughts, but no wonder the bloody years fly by...(perhaps even quicker nowadays in such a technologically orientated environment).

Aaaaaaany-how...why not have a look at the breakdown of your life in jelly beans...go on...sure your doing nothing anyways.

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What's the difference between living and existing?