Recently I read Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman.
Being a mortal, I was eager to discover ground-breaking time management strategies. Instead, I encountered an earnest yet jolting discourse asserting that life is mockingly short. According to Burkeman, the average life span is 77 years, granting us 4,000 weeks on this planet. And rather than teach us how to cram more into a day, he boldly implores us to embrace our finiteness. To make the most of our limited time, he asks 5 key questions (each of which could elevate and captivate your next mentoring conversation)… 1. Where in your life or your work are you currently pursuing comfort when what’s called for is a little discomfort?
2. Are you holding yourself to, and judging yourself by, standards of productivity or performance that are impossible to meet?
3. In what ways have you yet to accept the fact that you are who you are, not the person you think you ought to be?
4. In which areas of life are you still holding back until you feel like you know what you’re doing?
5. How would you spend your life differently if you didn’t care so much about seeing your actions reach fruition?
Burkeman aptly started and ended his book with, “The average human life span is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short.” So… what shall we do with our precious weeks? © 2022. Ann Tardy and MentorLead. www.mentorlead.com. All Rights Reserved. |