Finding A Chore

There might be times when you want to exercise but just feel to tired for it. Times you should clean your floors and feel you don’t have the time. Or worse, times you should eat, though you don’t even feel like chewing. These situations can be brought about by one key issue. You’re not doing the task for the sake of doing it. Consider this with me for a moment.

Let’s say you’re growing a garden in your backyard. Not for something to sell, not for something to eat, but just because you want something you can tend to with decently fast results. One day, you wake to see the garden was attacked, be it bugs or small animals, it’s been half eaten and bent out of shape. Will you go to war with these invaders using poison and pesticides? Will you build an entire structure in order shield it from the world? These are choices one could make if their livelihood depended on this garden. These flowers are purely meant for having something to do, we can instead take an entirely different approach. Since the outside world is turning these flowers into more of a job than an activity, we can simply get plants that are content with living indoors, like cacti or ferns. With little more than water and a window, you can effectively take care of these plants while never having to worry about invasions, weather, or the neighbors kid letting loose a wayward ball into your yard.

While obliterating obstacles on your way towards progress and improvement is all well and good, actions like that should be reserved for exactly those purposes. When you’re doing something for the sake of doing it, which is often a fast track to self fulfilment, avoiding annoyances is often the best approach to take, even if that means changing your task of choice all together.

Thanks for reading and I hope you learned something from my own lesson in life.