Spend Your Time on What Gives Your Life Meaning

In some respects, we have more time than we did before Covid.  Less commuting.  Less shopping and going out for meals.  Less socializing.  In other respects, there is too much time on our hands that gets in the way of actually accomplishing something.  The time we do have now feels agitated and empty.  

We all get the same twenty-four hours in a day, but how we choose to spend those hours makes all the difference.  Now that September showed up this week (yikes) it is definitely time to turn the page away from summer (boo) and look to crisper days and the joys of fall.  Yet, it's still Covid.  

What about considering what makes your life feel meaningful and important now.  What are the raw materials in your day that make your day worthwhile?  Is it humor, hobbies, a project, a connection with friends and family, exercise, nature, your pet, prayer or meditation, accomplishment, good meals?  Those "things" are the building blocks of how you can create a day of activities or rituals that make you happier and healthier whether it's Covid or no Covid.  

This takes focus because there is no urgency.  If you don't do it today, well there's always tomorrow.  That is part of the Covid coping problem.  These days are dragging along, and there is not enough definition in them to keep them interesting. "Work expands to fill the amount of time you have to do it in."  I don't know who said that, but it's true.  The day stretches out too long when there isn't enough of the good stuff to make it fun, and that makes us feel bad, sad, bored or hopeless. 

Make a list, and check to see that all that makes your day happy is on there.  Then, make sure you divide your hours in the day to tick those boxes on your list so that you have more joy, more happiness and then more healthiness.  I promise it will be well worth your time.