The Most Efficient Lifestyle

[trev]

Mehdi,

I'm curious as to how you find time to read all these great books, research and write blog posts, respond to forum posts, train yourself, train others, and still have a life. How do you do it? Do you have any habits or routines that you've found especially useful?

Please share!

trev

[Mehdi]

Mehdi,

I'm curious as to how you find time to read all these great books, research and write blog posts, respond to forum posts, train yourself, train others, and still have a life. How do you do it? Do you have any habits or routines that you've found especially useful?

Please share!

trev

I don't know what your definition of "having a life" is. I suppose you mean friends/going out/etc I did all of that for years and didn't got me anywhere. I don't get out on weekdays usually. Wake up at 8, breakfast + cook meals for day, start working at 9, emails/forum, train from 11 to 1pm, eat/shower, forum, write/research posts till about 6, emails/forum, usually stop at 8pm, then reading/documentaries till 12pm. Weekends I sometimes get out with friends, but not every week anymore.

[trev]

Thanks, Mehdi. I'm always curious to hear how successful people manage their time.

"Having a life" is, of course, relative to everyone, but, generally speaking, I suppose it means taking time for yourself to hang out with friends and socialize, meditate on your own, read for pleasure, watch film and TV, nap, etc -- just decompress. However, if your work is fulfilling and energizing, I suppose there's no real need for decompression as it's widely understood (at least in the U.S.). There's a great quote: "If you love what you do, you'll never have to work a day in your life."

Keep up the inspiring work.

[Mehdi]

Thanks, Mehdi. I'm always curious to hear how successful people manage their time.

"Having a life" is, of course, relative to everyone, but, generally speaking, I suppose it means taking time for yourself to hang out with friends and socialize, meditate on your own, read for pleasure, watch film and TV, nap, etc -- just decompress. However, if your work is fulfilling and energizing, I suppose there's no real need for decompression as it's widely understood (at least in the U.S.). There's a great quote: "If you love what you do, you'll never have to work a day in your life."

Keep up the inspiring work.

Most people pretend they have a life, but are trying to escape it by doing those things. I don't watch TV, makes you dumb/surreal/etc. Napping, plenty of time for that when you die. The work is great, I like it and stuff, but of course if I could choose I would do what most people would do: not work.

[Gringo]

Nice writing on this thread... and yes TV is just a mega waste of time! Only watch when certain soccer games are on, and that's it.

[DJJ]

I think time management is one of the most important aspects. For example:

Instead of watching the news on television, you can read the news in free papers on your way to work or while eating breakfast. And reading the news has many advantages over watching the news. Like read whatever you want, how much you want, when you want. So this way, you spare half an hour time watching television to be informed of stuff you don't even care about. \
And while you're cooking, you can quickly throw some smelly clothes in the washing machine.
Want to see a movie? Television shows the same old crap over and over again. Instead, you could go to the cinema so you're going out at the same time. And as a bonus, you get a better movie experience then any 1000 dollar tv can give you.

Furthermore, people who work hard don't waste their time on the internet, except for Mehdi, because the internet is his work.


Now the catch is that it isn't easy, at last in my opinion, to live a lifestyle as efficient as a described. After all, most of us are lazy, like to waste their time and live by conventions. Like, when you tell somebody you don't have a tv, they look at you as if they've just seen a ghost. Because having a tv is a convention and many people like to see how Uri Geller pulls a ridiculous trick that could as well be pulled by a 5 year old.