The starting point or synonym to living a more intentional life is to take decisions from a point of awareness, rather than ignorance.
It is these micro decisions that matter much more than the macro ones.
How we spend our hours is how we spend our lives.
Yet, mostly with the plexus of technology around us, we get caught in itâs web everywhere.
even within it,
you open your laptop to work, and suddenly youâre on instagram web.
yes, instagram web.
thatâs just absurd.
That I didnât even notice when it happened, and when something decided to take my attention without me even knowing.
Which makes me realise something
If I was at my workplace and I would get invites to 100 meetings in a day, would I say yes to each one of them?
Hell no right!
I have work to do, how would I ever do that if Iâm in 100 meetings.
Yet, these tech distractions are just like that, theyâre like mini people inviting you to a meeting with them without you even realizing or having a moment to respond.
And not just this, so many things are constantly trying to buy our attention itâs crazy.
I think itâs of utmost importance to build a daily practice that can be done everyday that makes us much more aware of such things happening to us, and aware enough for us to interject and say no.
To say a no with no regrets and move on to the things which are truly important to us.
Addition
I think a good way to gauge how aware you are, is by checking how much conscious self talk youâve been having.
There is another you inside you, thatâs observing everything, often that you also decides to nudge you slightly towards the right things, towards the more important things.
The more âawareâ you are, the more ânudgesâ you get, the more you have âahaâ moments and you observe when somethingâs not right or not working.
The more disconnected you are, the more decisions are in the hands of others.
Like how in the art of living course, they do the TV exercise where youâre made to act like a TV while someone else changes the channels on an imaginary remote.
At the end of it, youâre made to realise that this is exactly like how the world works, you wake up and the remote is not in your own hands.
Youâre like a football, being passed around between multiple people, all of whom gain when you keep being a such a football.
So,
donât be a football bud. Be the striker!