Have you ever had days where you wanted to do something on the spare of the moment, but you couldn’t because you were stuck at work?
This happens a lot during the summer. Your friends invite you to the beach, but you’re so far behind with work that you have to decline. Else, you accept and spend the whole time worrying about not working.
Many of us want to live spontaneously, but that kind of attitude normally leads to the complete opposite. When you abandon your responsibilites, you soon run out of important things such as money. If you enjoy life now and worry about it later, you will pay for it down the line. Short term rewards lead to long term punishments.
Being rigid is the opposite approach. But while this can lead to success in some aspects of life (usually lots of money), you loose so much freedom that money is hardly worth it. You may have a plasma screen, but who cares if you don’t ever have time to watch it?
The solution is found somewhere in the middle. You need to work hard now in order to reap the benefits later. This calls for lots of discipline because you have to know when you can afford to take time off and when you can’t. If you want to have guilt free spontanity, you must be rigid and disciplined most of the time.
One of the things I’m currently working on is getting ahead enough on my work so that I can decide, at a moment’s notice, to stop and take a week off. So while other people have to plan their holidays week’s in advance, I want to be able to take a break on a whim.
