The thing is, I believe that the way we frame time perception, decide how we see everything in our life and that can make you feel like you're losing out on many things, as for instance, Alice measures time by day, and Bob measure time by week. Some measure time by year or like companies for instance, they do it quarterly. Whatever you decide,
Let's think of it this way,
Alice said she made 1,000 in just seven days and Bob said, he only made $1,000 this week. Both actually earn the exact same amount of money in the same amount of time. Now, how you perceive it depends on how you choose to measure it.
This has become a fascination to me because if you followed me long enough, I always do 90 days challenges of something. I measure my progress every-single-day and even create a check-boxes for it. Unfortunately, it only lasted for a while. So, I've been trying to find ways to understand my framework of thinking so I can use a proper method to achieve everything I want in life.
And I am big proponent that all these things aren't something you can just copy, you have to do the work. You can listen to others experience but that's about it. The faster you find how your brain works and how you perceive time, the easier it gets.
Now, I learned that I operate in weeks. It is much easier to see progression of something in week timeframe than daily time frame. It has a lot to do with how I perceive time. For instance, I can get a lot things done in just 4 hours of what supposed to be a month worth of work. So, I never like the idea of daily pay or monthly pay. I would prefer it hourly and weekly pay because it makes a lot of sense to me.
At the same time, when it comes to goal progression, I hate to track every little thing daily. Instead, I much rather see progression in a week. It's much better to visualize and gives me tangible motivation boost than if something were to be tracked monthly.
I find it really fascinating because let me illustrate something :
- Lose weight 2kg in 30 days
- Lose weight 2kg in 4 weeks
- Lose weight 2kg in 1 month
I don't know what you will close, let me know in the comment section but to my brain, I only register 4 weeks because it is short enough to see progression but also not short enough to feel like it's a scam.
Similarly If you frame things to me like
- You can finish university in 4 years
- You can finish university in 208 weeks
- You can finish university in about 1460 days
I'd still choose I can finish university in 208 weeks. That still is the sweetest spot for me. It looks manageable and makes sense than 4 years.
Once you understand your own framework to time, it gets easier as well because rather than following what people out there do, find your understanding and framework of time to create the life that you want. But still everything compounds, whatever you do that week, will also influence the rest of your year. Think of it this way, if you workout like 40 hours/week that is still something compared to do 0 workout/week. If you save up $50/week in 100 weeks, that's already $5000. Once you also realize how time flies that fast, that $5000 can be that sweet money gift. Or maybe you make commitment to invest $100 towards a stock/bond/week. In 52 weeks, that's already 5200 stocks portfolio if everything is stagnant. Now, think about it. If you can save up 100HP/week that's 5200 HP in 52 weeks. I can go on and on.
At the end of the day, it takes me 29 years to find this pattern. Maybe you can find yours faster and find something that makes sense to you then turn your life around.
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𝘊𝘦𝘮𝘺 (𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘤) 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘬. 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴? 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭, 𝘨𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺, 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦, 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴. 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘏𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘣 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺. |
