Tag: “Motivation”

Human beings, throughout history, have always played with the idea of reaching a status in which leisure is most of their time and work obligations are minimal. If we can avoid hard work and rush, better.

Some organization is needed and I think we all agree on that, albeit at different levels. No matter how disorganized you think you are, you surely keep the cutlery in the kitchen and your toothbrush in the bathroom. It is hard and stressful to live without knowing where the stuff is when you need it, right?

You feel overwhelmed by the large number of commitments that you have to deal with in your life. You just can’t keep up. You have tried to apply all the tricks that you found on the web to get better organized and you’ve tried all the tools that promised to improve your productivity, but you haven’t achieved a significant improvement.

Larry Dossey is an American author and physician whose publications are somewhat controversial because of the importance he gives, in the field of medicine, to spiritual issues that have little to do with science. In 1982, Dossey coined the term “time sickness” to define the belief that many people have about the fact that time is always slipping away, that there is never enough of it, and that we must go faster and faster to keep up.

Principles and rules can be understood in different ways, so in this article I will refer to principles as “fundamental ideas that govern someone’s thought or behavior”, and to rules as “that which must be complied with because it has been agreed within a community.”