Yoga Tips: So Much to Do, so Little Time

We only have 24 hours a day, every day of our lives, but we often feel that 24 hours is not enough to do every thing that we need to do. Worse than just that, whenever we go to bed with some agenda left undone, the next morning we will wake up feeling guilty for not managing the time to do it yesterday. With yoga, you can learn how to do your best in managing your days by increasing your awareness of time and day.

Yoga is about shaping our mindset and directing our awareness to the things that are important to us in our life, and self management including time, starting with our awareness about ourselves and our time. Yoga's teaching can help us in keeping us focused on our daily agenda and reducing the chance of other things distracting us from completing our planned tasks.

Most often what happens in our days is not that we forget the tasks that we are planning to do, but when we are set to do the things we are planning to do, some distractions or urgent things come up which we have to deal with, and we lost track of our original plans. Situations like this easily become a burden and later, we find ourselves regretting our decisions in choosing the tasks we did and did not do.

There are two main things that we need to remind ourselves in order to have a better management of our time and day. The first thing is that we cannot change the fact that there are only 24 hours in a day. We just have to carefully and effectively plan our days. The second thing is that human beings are not machines or robots that will do tasks as outlined without the ability to make adjustments or allowance for sudden distractions or urgent agendas that are not in our original plan.

We should try to go to sleep at night at such time that will allow us to wake up at the intended time the next morning. Then, when we wake up early in the morning, we will have time to do pranayama, and little meditation. These morning routines will create a positive energy that opens up our mind and body and prepare them to face your entire day with an increased level of awareness. By doing this, we have prepared ourselves to do our best in completing our planned tasks during the day and be prepared to act on Plan-B, should a distraction or urgent situation arises.

Finally, we should not go too hard on ourselves whenever we are faced with unfinished tasks at the end of the day. We need to remind ourselves that we have started our day in the best possible state of mind and a solid plan. We also have done the best that we could in completing our planned tasks and all new tasks that aroused during the day. The rest is just the way everything is meant to happen for us and not entirely happened because of our fault.

The longer we practice this time management style, we will find that yoga has helped improved our inner strength in making our mindset more solid and balanced, which in turn enables us to effectively manage our life and our time.