Don't let anyone robs your time....

Talking about our time management sounds cliche, but personally, it’s another massive revelation. For all this time, I was letting other people dictate how I spent my time even though I had a schedule plan. I do things based on whims, and more often than not, it’s all unpredictable. While I didn't necessarily feel like they are costing me anything, I just realized they are actually costing me my sanity and money. For a self-employed person, time is everything, and it is money, too.

The younger version of me thought that she knew it all, but whatever I did then was just a stepping stone and led me to many revelations I had lately including how my time have been robbed in daylight.

Welcome to my brain dump, it's morning and when I can sit down, sipping a cup of coffee while contemplating life and emptying it out a little.

It’s the start of the year, and as I reviewed everything, I realized that I’ve run my life based on how others run theirs. I didn’t respect my own needs and time, which resulted in my previous situation. I am one of those people who will respond fast but also will leave anybody on read for so long. These days, I learned to create a buffer to know that anything gets through my messages and will be replied to once I finish my business.

My goal in 2025 is to work on that as well. Now that I get more in my plate, I certainly need to be careful with my time management and all the resources I have. I quite have a temper that if things aren't balanced, it's going to be a disaster. So, to keep my sanity that I've had for a while, I do what I have to do even if that means I am not going to be a fast reply as I could.

Last year, my time was robbed left and right. I know family matters and all that but I didn't know better it could be buffered. I could honestly contribute in other means than my presence just like before. I suppose now with future deaths and birth, I could certainly find my way navigating everything. Afterall, that was rock bottom was for, to learn and get some revelation.

There's another thing that usually tempts me to go out of my way. Typically, I could get very bored and that is very tempting to just go somewhere, add something more to my plate. I know sometimes boredom is great but I've acted out of whims and based on my boredom too much and resulted in nothing ever gets done.

Thankfully, I've finished my scheduling for this year and I am that type of person that has guidebook for everything that could go wrong. So, knowing that I've been prepared and if things really go wrong, there's a little consolation. I can't really control everything there is to control but the schedule I have is sure is going to help me this 2025.

I also want more stability and predictability this year. That including the way I move, the way I purchase things and the way I work on projects. I don't want to work based on whims, purchase things because of whims, and even travel just because I am bored or something. I learned from half of 2024 that being predictable helps with getting more value of whatever we want. For example, unlike many years ago when I was being so unpredictable of everything, I didn't get the best value of something. In 2024, I learned that I could really get the best gadgets, the best fashion items and etc just by being predictable in a sense of purchasing something once every a couple of years or something.

That's probably it my goal for the 2025 and I have nothing else grand to add. I believe just by striving to be predictable, everything else will follow in my life.