There aren’t enough hours in the day to do the things I want / need to do. And that’s just part of being an adult. Or so I hear.
This blog post is probably going to be real boring.
Between juggling studying different things, practicing music, catching up with friends, and the numerous projects I’m working on, I have to choose between sacrificing sleep, social life, or relaxing. I’m sure everyone’s seen the Venn diagrams before.
And, well, this post I guess.
I mean 10 seconds.
heh.
As an adult, a few changes are made: “Good Grades” is replaced with “Performing well at work,” and another circle (“good parenting”) is added if you have kids. Yet another circle is added if you have other projects to work on. And it kinda gets hard to represent it in a 2D image.
It’s difficult to decide what to sacrifice, but it’s imperative that sacrifices be made, because there aren’t enough hours in the day.
Something that can help you decide what to sacrifice is that first Venn diagram–Figure g (for green). If you have something in your life that doesn’t fit into any of those circles, you can cut it out. It’s especially important to consider that top circle–“What I Love,” is not “What I Like.” If it doesn’t bring you immense joy, and doesn’t fit into the other circles, cut it out from your life.
It occurs to me that something like raising children might not fall into any of these circles, but you might not know whether you like raising kids until you have ’em. Use your best judgment.
My problem is that most of the things I do right now fit into these circles, but not the bottom one. And I’m realizing that I can probably cut video gaming out of my life. It only fits into the top circle.
I’m glad this blog post changed from me complaining about not having time… to reassessing my life choices.
Maybe I’ll start drinking coffee.
One reply on “Adulting”
Good point about truly defining what you “like” and what you “love”. The way I see it, though, is that Figure g (for green) is a diagram for a different kind of achievement of purpose if you start splitting hairs.
As a parent, I wouldn’t try and fit a “raising kids” category into that diagram. “Raising Kids” would be more in a diagram that also had Sleep, Exercise/Health/Diet, Work, and Passions/What I love. Maybe church. Maybe even personal mental health. Or spouse.
So what needs to be done is a Venn Diagram of Venn Diagrams needs to be made of all these different categories. But not before those circles are further Venn’d out into their own sub categories. For example, Raising Kids can be diagramed into Fun, Education, Healthy Food, Unhealthy Food, Exercise, Spiritual Health, etc.
You can call this practice………
Vennmore.