The importance of challenging yourself every day.
Routine. Don't try to want to hide or run away from it... Because no matter where you are or whatever you are doing, this series of "automated" habits that we carry out throughout the days (especially the rush in life where everything is with a timestamp on all sides) will reach you and will make you feel trapped amidst swirling goals and deadlines.
In general, people's daily lives are full of activities - on and off the job, mixing personal and professional life - that need to be done often (after all, commitments bring results). Therefore, these repetitive actions become habits and once everything is seen in this way, the tendency is to create a closed circle of activities that seemingly fill all available hours and make it impossible to add new tasks.
The habit of practicing repetitive activities creates conformity with predetermined results and also creates a wall that prevents us from seeing what lies ahead and we often fail to realize it until it is already quite high. Changing this viewpoint and breaking down these obstacles is difficult, requires a lot of determination and willpower (and a little patience always helps)... But it is possible and very beneficial.
Do things really have to be this way?
The day is 24 hours and as much as we all wish with all our might that it - sometimes - be longer, the truth is that there is no need for it to be expanded, but rather that we be more attentive to regarding the ways we are choosing to take advantage of and distribute this time among the accomplishments of our ordinary activities. It is about starting to develop new habits and putting them into practice.
As the daily schdule gets more organized, we quickly find extra time for new actions to be included in our routine and it is precisely this search for the new that motivates us to want to risk and bet on new dives into what we do not yet know. For this to happen, we often need to study a smart way to reallocate our time, because daily it is more than enough for us to do what needs to be done.
The intention of wanting to accomplish something new can be translated in many different ways... For example: Running away from the sameness that rules a society, looking for a new version of yourself in the crowd and perhaps discovering new skills and interests that even so you didn't know and didn't even consider it as an option. Understanding and wanting this change may not be such an easy task for many people (this requires an internal change of considerable proportions), but it is extremely important to be able to perceive new horizons.
I'm not referring to the routine as a villain, after all, everyone needs to have one so that life gets in the way and walks within a normal range. So let's consider routine as a starting point, but never as a stopping point because we need to be constantly evolving and with that, what I'm trying to say, is that each person should pay more attention when the whole daily process is already very "robotic" and there seems to be no more room for something new to be part of the overall set. It is the warning sign that a change needs to be made as soon as possible (and should not be ignored).
So, I believe it is very important to look for new ways to challenge ourselves because it is through these attitudes (which are not always simple but necessary) that we grow as human beings and by acquiring new habits, we see life through new and great perspectives that can't be presented or seen by anyone, but ourselves. It's a personal decision that can make all the difference.
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