Seize the Day

 You grow every time you get rejected.

You need stress and urgency to express more of your potential. It’s only too common for people to spend weeks and months not getting much done at all.

Oh yes! You will see many waking up every morning rushing to and fro - making calls, making plans, talking big. But the truth and the glaring reality is that very very few people actually contribute to the big things that change and influence the trajectory of our lives; economically, politically, industrially, etc. At least in my country.

Another fact to observe is that of poor time management — office workers do not spend 8 hours doing meaningful work. The fact is that you can finish your work is less than two hours, if you do not multi-task. The question is what do you do with the rest of the time you have in the day.

The average, ordinary, uninspired person will take out their phone and distract themselves, or they will get up and look for people to distract, or they will eat away their anxiety and frustrations, or they will take out their phone after putting it away to distract themselves some more.

I propose to you, my dear, that life and time are exceedingly precious raw materials — a blank page waiting for you to paint and draw your whole life plan. If you don’t pick up the pen and the paint — the blank page will not complain and shout at you. It will sit there and wait, sometimes forever, until your dissolution back into eternal darkness.

Yet while you sit and postpone your life — the politicians you criticize are out there getting things done, the entrepreneurs who sell you products are out there getting rejected and fighting for their vision, the athletes are out there sweating and recovering from defeats, the writers are out there learning about the history and the future of the human kind — enriching their minds and souls. Appreciating and recognizing the magnanimity and grandeur of the Universe, of God the creator.

Good people are busy getting better and getting things done for others, they aren’t living in their mind, they aren’t overthinking everything, they aren’t victimizing themselves.

It’s a beautiful and exciting universe for the optimists and the hard workers. A heaven on earth.

Cancelo Alvarez