Making Our Lives Golden
April 23, 2007
I have always been a strong opponent of television. But, as I told you on Friday, K and I recently started watching it together. Just a little bit here and there, but enough to get me thinking about the way people spend their recreational time... and make me wonder if the kind of activities we engage in during our down time really make a difference.
On Friday, I pointed out that the more time you spend working, the more successful you're likely to be - but acknowledged that even the most ambitious and hardest workers need to take at least a few hours out of the day to do something that gives them pleasure. Something that isn't work.
The question then becomes, "What should that 'something' be?"
As I said, just about any activity we choose to do can fit into one of three categories. It can:
- damage us in some way
- improve us somehow
- leave us more or less the same
It's up to you how much Gold, Vapor, and Acid you are going to have in your life.
When I think of my own choices - good, bad, and neutral - I notice that they have the following characteristics:
Read the rest of this article at Early to Rise
posted by M. Masterson @ 2:18 PM,
1 Comments:
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At 11:15 PM,
Arun Pal Singh said...
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Thanks a lot for this article Michael. I always had these thoughts but were never demarcated. One thing that I have observed is whatever gives us pleasure takes ourselves towards entropy and I think vice versa is also true.
Everybody wants golden habits but we often end spending our times in other two kinds as you named them Vaporous and Acidic. I feel it is because for initial some time you need to recollect your flows of energy and invest in building a golden habit.
Once the habit is built you are taken to next platform of existence ( Though many people would not realize it consciously).
Once again thanks for so beutiful article.
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