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>5:05 AM - Make a point of appreciating all that is good about my life, instead of immediately rushing into my day. I often take a deep breath and sit out on ou
by blhack 14y ago
>5:05 AM - Make a point of appreciating all that is good about my life, instead of immediately rushing into my day. I often take a deep breath and sit out on our deck for a few minutes.
Is this meant to be satire or something? This was seriously put into his schedule as a 5 minute task?
- bgilroy26 14y agoI'm not sure I'm understanding what you're saying, but how much time you put into a particular scheduling item does not necessarily correspond with its importance/urgency. When it's just you and your thoughts, 5 minutes can be a long time. I don't think it would be a good idea to stretch this activity out longer for the sole reason of showing how important it is.
- blhack 14y agoNo, it's the fact that it's literally on the schedule as a task. Imagine telling a designer: "From the hours of 12:00pm to 3:00pm, be creative." Life doesn't work like that, and if you're scheduling your life down to individual minutes, then I can't imagine how you're also managing to be creative.
- bgilroy26 14y agoI'm not sure I'm understanding what you're saying, but how much time you put into a particular scheduling item does not necessarily correspond with its importance/urgency. When it's just you and your thoughts, 5 minutes can be a long time. I don't think it would be a good idea to stretch this activity out longer for the sole reason of showing how important it is.
- crazygringo 14y agoI totally agree. It sounds awfully ridiculous -- appreciation of life isn't something that happens "on schedule" any more than falling in love is. Maybe he should have just said, "take a quiet moment before starting my day, because it helps keep me relaxed/whatever" or something to that effect.
- hoppster 14y agoI have to disagree with you guys here. I'm definitely not a ryan carson fanboy, but I've been scheduling my 'life appreciation' time for years and my life has been better because of it. In fact, you'll see it on almost every daily schedule I create. It was very easy to go months without appreciating all the blessings before I made a deliberate effort to schedule that time. I'm already teaching this important 'trick' to my kid.
- blhack 14y agoDo you also schedule time for things like "laughter"?
- Timothee 14y agoMost people don't actually take that time, even if they could easily find the time. (I, for one, don't take the time, even if I end up clicking on links on Reddit like a zombie at the end of the day) So having it on a schedule isn't a bad thing. I think it's in a previous post that Ryan was talking about that as a mini-meditation. Many people meditate at specific times, he just does it at a smaller scale, and I'm sure it's still better than nothing.