Why You Should Never Make Up For Lost Time
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Life happens fast.
We spend our time trying to get by, learn more, and look back with that extra knowledge seeing how we lived life and we regret the time we spent.
Most of us simply waste too much time in the speed at which life happens.
We look back and then try to make up for the time we spent, but realize very quickly that we can’t.
What is lost is lost.
Yet we try anyway.
We set up New Year’s Resolutions to do twice of what we planned to do last year, try to work four times as hard, and hit the gym more often than the Bodybuilders to make up for lost time.
We start fast, accelerating to incredible speeds through the motivation we have, and then burn through our fuel reserves so fast that within a month we crash.
But with the constant threat of wasting even more time always on our mind we try to work and distract ourselves when we do not have the energy anymore.
Never taking the time to recharge we eventually burn out even more and need more distractions as we realize we cannot work at the levels we set for ourselves.
By the time the end of the year comes we look back at the resolutions we made and look back with that same regret we had when we started.
Most of us will have simply wasted too much time.
We look back and then try to make up for the time we spent, but realize very quickly that we can’t.
What is lost is lost.
Yet we try anyway.
And so we set up new Resolutions to do four-times of what we planned to do last year, try to work eight times as hard, and basically live at the gym.
With new goals being even juicier than before, we go at it even faster and burn out even sooner, and we repeat this process time and time again.
Understand that you can never make up for what is lost.
The attempts to do so often put you further in the negative than raising you up.
Most of us fall into this trap because we are too afraid to take responsibility for the time we lost.
