How do you get over wasting an entire day???

[lightthecandle]

Yesterday and the days before then, my life was good, i was accomplishing all the little goals of doing homework and stuff that i wanted to.

BUT

today, i just wasted it. an entire day. that's gone that i'll never get back, and i can't get over it!! its bugging me so much!

how do you get over days/hours/minutes like these??????

[hzpim]

you are so regreted about the emptiness of your passing day,but ,why not to think,however you experience the day ,it's still a day,you should receive and enjoy it .i have experienced such feelings always during my study in school,also anxious about wasted time ,but the regretable feeling has nothing to do ,so go forth,don't need to regret...hope you happy....

[Shamou]

lightthecandle! That's probably the greatest thing that could have happened to you... a lesson in pain if you will...

From now on, you'll know the true important of a single day, hour and even minute... so you will make certain that you will not waste any of them...

Chuck today to a life's lesson... and get ready for a grand new day tomorrow... your butt will be on fire...

The best of luck to you...
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[Jason S]

Relax. Take a longer time perspective... maybe you had three hyper productive days and then one day off. So? You didn't waste a day, you just crammed four days worth of stuff into three, but your body still recognized that a fourth day was needed, and took it.

No big deal. In fact, try to waste another one. Your body will tell you, "I've just done zero days work over the course of 2 days... I need to catch up!"

Everyone's got their own clock. You can't get too far ahead, nor can you get too far behind. Let it happen.

And take a page from Peter Gibbons from Office Space, who describes his completely wasted weekend this way: "I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I expected it to be."

[dktang]

This is something that I am still facing as well. Since you are in a state of realization, I believe you should take the advantage to analyze why it is a problem and what you should do about it. Your mind is a very powerful tool and you will be surprised at the answers it will spit out. Unless provoked, it won't do any more work than required. The worse thing, from my experience, is to beat yourself up over it and then distract yourself again. We all know distraction comes in many forms such at television, browsing the internet, listening to music, and getting caught up in the past or future (what to do tonight). Next thing you know, you have just wasted another day.

[Roni]

is it really wasted time?

I think the others have good points here.

Maybe you didn't do exactly as you wished you would have, but don't waste today worrying about yesterday. Do what you want to do today, and have no regrets.

Roni

[lightthecandle]

i wasted another day today . i hate myself so muuuuuuuuuuch.

[silicon toad2000]

use it to your advantage.
learn to realise partway through the day what a wasted day looks like and take action.
use it to motivate you for the next day.
Even if you slept the entire day, it's not wasted...

[Shamou]

Originally Posted by lightthecandle

i wasted another day today . i hate myself so muuuuuuuuuuch.

What is you definition of a wasted day...???
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[lightthecandle]

wasted day = not accomplishing all the schoolwork that i wanted to . if i studied all day than i wouldn't be mad, but to spend an hour a day studying in the weekend is dissapointing tosay the least

[lizthefair]

I can understand being frustrated about time that was ill-spent--but getting worked up about it is like throwing good money after bad.

If you did "waste" a day, why waste more time now beating yourself up about it?

The best thing to do is learn the lesson, forgive yourself, and get the most out of your current moments as possible!

[Shamou]

Originally Posted by lightthecandle

to spend an hour a day studying in the weekend is dissapointing tosay the least

Why did you chose to study for only one hour...???
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[lightthecandle]

i guess i was procrastinating

[Shamou]

Originally Posted by lightthecandle

i guess i was procrastinating

We'll get at the truth if it takes all year...

Why were you procrastinating...???
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[Ilya]

Regretting about the wasted days is a task big enough to take the next day, the next week and the rest of the life... and to waste them as well.
Forgive yourself and move on. One day is not a big deal if it is a yesterday. Worry about wasting tomorrows!

[Amadeus]

Think of your time like trading in the stock market. Buying and selling stocks teaches you how to be disciplined and to take emotions out of the equation. You should try to take out all emotional feelings about how you spent the days that don't exist anymore (you bought Enron at $100 per share). Only look at your life from this very minute. What if you had just been on drugs the last 10 years and didn't do anything? Do you just throw your hands up and say, "damn I wasted all the time"? Or do you start over and make the best of today?

[Kura Ookami]

You might have wasted a day. You might have wasted a week. Maybe even a year or ten years. You might be able to think of a million things you could have done in the time you've wasted. Why not make it your goal to start doing those things now? It's never too late to begin living your life, to begin living in the moment.

You can't go back and redo your lost days. Today is the very first day you can start living the life you want to live.

[manzima]

Hi everybody,
I joined the Forum today and I wanted to take the opportunity to reply to this post about wasted time.
Our life is a School and every action we take is an experience in the sense that we can learn something from it and use the lesson in our future experiences if we want to take full advantage of our life.

One way to go over wasted time is sit down, relax and see backward what we have done during that "wasted time". When we remember one past action we can ask ourself whether we chose that action or not. And if we did choose it why? If we did not choose it then who did and why did we accept another person's choice instead of our own?
By doing so we can learn how we could spend time wisely by choosing what we really want to do.

Any way it helps us to bless every experience we had and ask what lesson we can draw from it. The answer to any personal question comes from within and when we get it (it is usually the first thought, impression, feeling or image we get after asking the question and listening/watching internally), we give thanks and move on.

A good way to avoid wasting time in general is to have a project to work on with a step-by-step plan we follow day after day, not allowing others to disturb us unless their actions are part of the daily plan! Somebody said that “when you fail to plan you plan to fail” and I think the person is quite right!
Thanks again for allowing me to express myself on this uplifting Forum!

To our common growth ,

Manzima

[martin]

Think of it this way: You're just wasting more time stressing out over wasting time. Its a dirty cycle. Try being productive the whole following day, and you will feel better.

[Lauxa]

I had a weekend like that last weekend. I decided to draw a picture of "the procrastinator." She was holding a book in one hand and a feather duster in the other, depicting tasks I might do to avoid what I really need to be doing. She was standing on one foot to show she was off-balance. She had a big smile on her face, but underneath there was pain. Her thought bubble depicted a person carrying a huge rock.

After I drew my image of this procrastinator aspect of my personality, I carried it with me next to my heart for the day. I tried to visualize this part of myself and send it love and acceptance and compassion. For me, I saw that the procrastinator was taking on this huge pain trying to shield me from a task that I was afraid of failing at.

I believe that you have to accept yourself the way you are before you can change.

[hurdle]

aren't you lucky that you take the time to be with yourself?

[Christian223]

I am overcoming procrastination myself, with the help of EFT (try the link at my sig), Steve pavlinas articles, both are awesome things that helped me a lot. The key things are to increase your motivation to do what you want to do, and to set clear goals, those two things are the essentials to me, but you have to read how to do them right, Steve has some great advice on how to do it, and EFT helps to replace all the negative feelings related to work and replace them with great and awesome feelings to sky rocket boost your motivation, try them, and good luck!.

[Ponce]

It depends what you mean by "a wasted day", I for one am retired and do what ever I feel like and that's including sitting in my hamock and looking at the grass grow.

But....there is always a but.... I think a lot so that my mind never stops and always thinking about different Ideas and inventions. At this time I have five 3X4' maps on my walls and I am keeping track of what is going on world wide, there are at this time two "hot" spots and my first bet will be the Israelis starting WWIII.

[YazKMan]

There are 2 things here which you need to take note of.

1- The day is gone, stop feeling frustrated, there's nothing you can do about it.
2- Think back over the day, how did you waste it? did you actually waste it? What would you have changed that would have let you get in some productive work?

Answer the questions and then decide that you will apply those decisions next time this is about to happen.