What Does Your Life Graph Look Like ?
I recently started thinking about my life and the way in which I spend my allotted 24 hours. It’s the same 1440 minutes, 86,400 seconds that we all have. If I were to graph my day, what would I see? How many hours per day do I sleep? (Not enough) How many hours are at work or commuting? How many hours a day do I waste on social media (Tic Tok you are not my friend)? How many hours a day do I spend grieving? How much time do I spend being negative?
When I look at my life graph it looks out of balance. Invictus said it this way “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” We CHOOSE how we will spend our time. Some things are necessary, but am I making smart decisions with my precious remaining moments?
Here is my challenge. Take an inventory of how you spend your 24 hours. With the New Year approaching I have decided to make some changes. If I spend 2 hours grieving per day I will start lessening the time each week. I plan on making positive changes and stop wasting time on Tik Tok and exercise instead.
We are all super busy but you are in control- you are the captain. Look at your life graph. Is this the trajectory you want for 2023? You can right your ship and change your course one minute, one decision at a time.
Thanks for posting this. I’m going to take on your New Years challenge. I’m on Facebook way too much and that at times can be such a time waster. It can also fire up negative emotions inside of me. Instead of being on Facebook so often I can do something crafty. I have plenty of never ending projects to do.
Good blog! It definitely spoke to me! I don’t get on social media too much, really I just post something occasionally and hop off! I rarely scroll because IIIII KNOW that it will be way too much time wasted. I used too, but haven’t in several years and I don’t miss it! I am terrible about not doing for myself things that I want to do, either out of guilt that my husband works so hard and he can’t do things that he likes or because I don’t have anyone to do them with. Everyone’s schedule is so wonky and conflicts with mine, it seems! I’d love to see myself grasp hold of my creative side again and start decorating my house with it. I’d love to start cooking and baking more and I’m definitely exercising just to be more healthy! Watching my mom and the shape she’s in has made me look at my health a little closer. I spend a whole lot of time in the car driving all over for this or that and it doesn’t help that I’m pretty far out away from everything, but most of the time it’s for someone else, not always for me, my husband and kids. I truly have been thinking a lot lately about doing more things that I like! I have increased my Jesus time in the last year and I think I need to increase that a little more as well! I need to stop putting everyone else first all the time, unless it’s absolutely necessary and I need to do for ME first! Thanks for blogging this! It helps me to receive that it’s ok to make myself happy and do for me first!!
Grief is individual to each person. A friend is going on 4.5 years of grieving. Last six months she realized she needed help.
What she didn’t need was someone giving her a time frame. My mom died when I was in the fourth grade and at times I still miss her horribly.
I didn’t know you can put your finger on a picture taken with an IPhone that you can see movement. Surprise -when I heard and saw my husband say “smile.” I had two separate pictures.
My Grief was severe but I was comforted with his words “smile.” Christmas brought me a different type of grief now- that I am having a hard time because Christmas was an intimate part of our marriage. Yes, I am learning we need empathy.
Since my husband graduated to heaven I am able to spend more time with our Heavenly Father.
I enjoyed reading all the comments and may our Lord bless us in 2023.
Thank you for sharing your blog with us.