How consciously are you living?

How much time and energy do you think we waste in a day?

How conscious are you of your time and your energy and how you spend your day??

If you sleep eight hours, then you get up and you need to shower and dress, exercise, move your body, brush your teeth, do your hair, whatever it might be, that’s two, three hours gone. That's almost half of your day just gone on the maintenance of life.?

Are you making the other half count?

Are you truly doing things, being aware, moving through life consciously?

That other half of your day really counts.?

I did research this morning, but I did so consciously.

I also go for my morning walk every day.? Some people ask how I can have all that time to do that, but I love feeling this connection to earth, coming out into mother nature and just walking the land.

When I get back to the house it's time to be productive and get into the things that matter to me and that I want to achieve and do.

Far from being a human doing, I'm talking about consciously actively working on focusing our attention on the things that matter to us.

That could be just connecting to family and relationships. It could be I'll ring my dad and talk to him.

It could also be working on a craft project or an art project or maintaining the lawn on your property, anything at all. It could be just something that matters to you.?

Whatever you're doing in this world, make sure you're having an impact, because there are some people who in 10 years will make far more impact on the world than others who live for a hundred years.

That's what counts.?

How do you touch lives??

How do people experience you??

What difference do you make??

If you're just using that other 50% of your day scrolling through social media, doing stuff that really doesn't advance your life or make a difference for anyone else, just thinking about your next meal, making another cup of tea, procrastinating about something.

When you think about it, that other 50% could quite easily slip away, and then it's another evening and you're like, “It's already getting late, I'll think about what's my dinner and I'm too tired to do anything else.”

Maybe you go to work, working for the man, we earn a dollar or two, we work eight hours in order to enjoy one each day.

We work so many weeks a year in order to have two weeks of holidays.?

We have to be conscious of how we're using our time, because we really don't have enough of it. We think we do, we think it's limitless. We think we have all the time in the world, but 50% of my day is already gone.?

What about yours?

I'm glad I get to connect with you as part of that.

What next??

How are you making an impact on this world?

How are you supporting the lives of others around you that you love??

How are you growing and nurturing and making the world a better place because of who you are and what you're doing?

My research and study this morning was around how I can support new managers and leaders even more.?

More and more every day when I'm working with organisations, I'm seeing new leaders who are being pushed into leadership roles, managing, supporting and leading others with no skills and with no support. Maybe they were a technical expert and they've been thrown into a management position with no idea how to lead people, only what they've experienced, which isn't always great.?

This morning I was researching and developing a leadership launch pad. Six weeks to help people start on their leadership journey. So if their bosses or their organisation doesn't have the time to support them around that, I'm hoping to do that for them.

To help them think about what kind of leader they want to become, and to give them some skills and some things in their toolkit to do that well and to do that consciously.

What are you thinking about today??

How are you growing and expanding??

How are you going to use this precious resource called time, that we truly don't have a lot of?

Time is running out for all of us. Squeeze the juice out of every beautiful day, because there are others who don't have much time, who have even less than us or have already lost theirs.?

Don't get caught in procrastination, in analysis paralysis. Go do whatever it is that your heart tells you you should be doing.

Use your time wisely.

Listen to the 10 Degree Shift podcast for more tips and ideas to help you make a small shift at work, in your team, in your leadership, and in your life.