Pick Your Mornings Carefully — It Can Make All The Difference
Scene 1: The phone-alarm rings.You force your lazy eyes to have a glance at it. Its 7:00 am already. Your face frowns. You can’t afford to stay in bed. You drag your body to washroom and starts with routine morning rituals. You took a devil with you, which in a moment can connect you to outer world. Your fingers start scrolling the screen. You notice new but repetitive stuff in your news feed. Different names, different faces but same old activities. Everyone is out there to show-off momentarily good part of their life. You don’t even realize that you have spent over 30 minutes in that “scroll-the-finger” exercise. And suddenly you switch to panic mode. You are getting late for the office. You would probably skip your breakfast to reach on time. Suddenly, the little soldiers called ‘thoughts’ in your mind start over-powering each other. You have meetings, new tasks, mails to be answered and before all of that, you have to reach on time. You realize that you have so much work and so less time. You are more frustrated because this is not a one day story. You feel so helpless almost everyday. You feel that you are losing control of your day-to-day activities. Your only savior is the weekend, which come-and-go with the blink of an eye. You halfheartedly throw yourself in the battle of office activities and secretly wish to survive till coming weekend, somehow.
Scene 2: The phone-alarm rings. You glance at it with relaxed eyes. Its 6:00 am. You smile and instantly get out of bed. You just don’t want to waste a single minute of this ‘my personal one hour’ before throwing yourself to outside world. You splash cold water on your face, it feels fresh. You resist that urge to take devil-phone with you in toilet. Even if you take it, you use to for reading to warm-up and train the little soldiers called ‘thoughts’ in your mind. You keep a track of time because you are all excited for that running/yoga/gym-session that you cherish so much. You feel rich because you have time for your personal activity. You cherish this part of the morning because its calm and silent out there. The air feels cold and fresh. You take a deep breath to drink it with that favorite music that you just plugged in. You again feel rich because you have time to notice and appreciate nature around you. Your delighted heart put its signature on this ‘me-time’ of one more day in your life. You are all charged to take on the day ahead after that healthy breakfast. You feel that you have some control on your life and can plan to do something more productive during the weekend — 2 full days of ‘me-time’. You realize that you are getting better at it by picking more productive activities in the morning. Every morning.
Most of us are victim of scene-1. But this is not story of just one day. It would go on for months and years. This story of every morning becomes a life in itself. And given a choice we all would love to choose scene-2 as our life. We all would love to have some control on our life. So, pick your mornings carefully. All we have to do is push our alarms one hour back, every morning. Good day!
Ajay Bamel | #cherishdpal
