Be Limitless

Came across a very interesting conversation on one of the Whatsapp groups I am a member of. The synopsis of the discussion was that every one in today’s world is working really hard to get to a certain goal that they have set for themselves. It can be either money or power or job satisfaction or recognition. And in order to ensure that the goals are achieved most of are loosing out on the little moments of happiness in our lives i.e the time with family, watching your kids grow up and most importantly the time that we need to spend with ourselves.

What really got me thinking and forced me to contemplate on this issue was that although everyone shares the same feeling of exhaustion, but everyone has a different take on the solution.  It can be anything from frequent family trips to spending more time with the family to changing the job. Even the blame for being the root cause of the problem cannot be fixed on one thing. It ranges from lack of money to lack of time to nature of job.

After a lot of thinking and deliberation what I have been able to conclude is that in today’s highly competitive world there is no job which allows you the comfort of a relaxed work schedule along with ample family time. Those times are long gone when our parents used to leave for office at 9 am and be back home by 6 pm with plenty of time to take us to market or to tell us a bedtime story. With cut throat competition one has to be on his/her toes at work because at least a hundred more candidates are waiting in the queue to pounce on your chair on even a slight mistake of yours.

So what do we do? Should we become the slaves of the careers that were in the first place chosen by us? Or should we stop giving importance to the careers and focus on spending time with the family? Actually the answer lies some where in the middle. Today money and status is more or less equally important to sustain the lifestyle and the comforts that we and our families have gotten used to. So career cannot be just left hanging and on the other side it is equally important to be with our families and spend time with them.

It is here the concept of being LIMITLESS comes into picture. First of all we should not limit ourselves into the thinking that only because we are working hard to ensure a better life for the family and a better status for ourselves, we do not have time for the family. Just think over it, what do you remember from the time spent with your family, your spouse or your kids, is it the each and every second of it or some special moments? In most of the cases the answer is NO. It is the small moments that we store in our mind's hard drive. So why are we worrying about the lack of time with the families and kids? 

We should instead be working on converting the little moments that we get with them into beautiful memories. You and your spouse are more likely to remember a 15 minute walk, holding hands, after dinner rather than a day spend together without any real interaction. The kids would cherish the moments when you enacted bedtime stories for them or took your son for a game of cricket or football or just played a patient to your daughter’s doctor. Your parents would enjoy a small talk of 10 minutes rather than your presence in the house for the entire day without a single word to them. These acts do not require an entire day. Just an half an hour in a day or an hour on the weekend would ensure that the family never misses our presence.

It is even more important to be limitless when it comes to us. There are countless moments in even our busiest days when we have nothing to do. Instead of thinking about the next job at hand, read a page from your favorite book, sing or hum (depending upon the environment), your favorite song, write two lines in your diary, look out of your office window to steal a view or anything that gives you pleasure. You do not need hours for these things but these small moments would bring the life energy back to you.

It is us who are limiting ourselves into the boundaries and constraints of time and money. The time is limitless and like that we should also be limitless to an extent that the boundaries of time and money should not be able to limit the fun in our lives. Do not limit yourselves to the restrictions of time. Instead, steal the precious moments from it and cherish it forever.