Time to Withdraw
Building a Life in Proper Perspective
Somehow the more we invent technology to do the work, the harder we work. Here are some examples.
You have a meeting or need to be somewhere at a certain time, you need to stop for cash so you find the nearest ATM machine. Park the car get out to head toward the machine and soon discover it is out of cash. You head back to the car, take another 15 minutes to find another machine and this one will not except your card because it cannot read the worn out magnetic strip on the back of your card. You try and call the person or persons of whom you are meeting to tell them you are running a bit behind only to find your cell phone is not working in the area or perhaps you just forgot to charge the phone.
You find you spend more and more time (not even realizing it) on the internet surfing around for the latest or revised gadget. You spend time finding forums or other peoples opinions on the gadget and soon you have spent the better part of a morning accomplishing nothing.
Lets say you are a blogger, and you constantly land on new tools that would appear to be the very thing we need to help your blog or better yet save you time. It may or may not cost money but we get it, try it and soon find it takes more time trying to figure out how the new tool works therefore getting no further ahead than we were.
Yet all these things are supposed to make us work better, save time and stress free?
Then why do so many people feel out of control?
Why are not more people fulfilled with their lives?
Why then are there so many websites about life coaching?
More than this why is the health industry growing by leaps and bounds?
Are we so caught up in progress that the expectations of what an individual can accomplish have risen to unrealistic levels?
Do you have enough breath left in you by the time you reach the top of the stairs, enough money at the end of the month and how about your sanity?
It seems to me that all the available new gadgets and tools comes with a costly price at some point. So when is enough just that?
When do we find the strength within us to take the time to withdraw from all the demands on us, demands that we set on us all by ourselves?
All this overload zaps from us our strength our hope and our power. Finding a true intimacy with life is what matters. Technology is not the problem, it is how we approach and how we let it rule our lives and drain us of our most vital resources, called life.
Its time to withdraw.
Building a Life in Proper Perspective
Somehow the more we invent technology to do the work, the harder we work. Here are some examples.
You have a meeting or need to be somewhere at a certain time, you need to stop for cash so you find the nearest ATM machine. Park the car get out to head toward the machine and soon discover it is out of cash. You head back to the car, take another 15 minutes to find another machine and this one will not except your card because it cannot read the worn out magnetic strip on the back of your card. You try and call the person or persons of whom you are meeting to tell them you are running a bit behind only to find your cell phone is not working in the area or perhaps you just forgot to charge the phone.
You find you spend more and more time (not even realizing it) on the internet surfing around for the latest or revised gadget. You spend time finding forums or other peoples opinions on the gadget and soon you have spent the better part of a morning accomplishing nothing.
Lets say you are a blogger, and you constantly land on new tools that would appear to be the very thing we need to help your blog or better yet save you time. It may or may not cost money but we get it, try it and soon find it takes more time trying to figure out how the new tool works therefore getting no further ahead than we were.
Yet all these things are supposed to make us work better, save time and stress free?
Then why do so many people feel out of control?
Why are not more people fulfilled with their lives?
Why then are there so many websites about life coaching?
More than this why is the health industry growing by leaps and bounds?
Are we so caught up in progress that the expectations of what an individual can accomplish have risen to unrealistic levels?
Do you have enough breath left in you by the time you reach the top of the stairs, enough money at the end of the month and how about your sanity?
It seems to me that all the available new gadgets and tools comes with a costly price at some point. So when is enough just that?
When do we find the strength within us to take the time to withdraw from all the demands on us, demands that we set on us all by ourselves?
All this overload zaps from us our strength our hope and our power. Finding a true intimacy with life is what matters. Technology is not the problem, it is how we approach and how we let it rule our lives and drain us of our most vital resources, called life.
Its time to withdraw.