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it is necessary to reduce our daily to do list and focus on the essentials.
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But what is essential?
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All the aspects of us have a say in this and are contradicting each other.
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You need to get some rest.
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you have to help your child with his homework,
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and who do you think is supposed to make dinner?
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In this video we will discover what will help us get back to our essentials,
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to judge what is important,
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to live in the moment and follow the wisdom of the elders.
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Time does not exist by itself.
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Time is a mere representation as universal as it might be.
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Time is the form of the inner sense,
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Nothing is more personal than the perception of time,
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and nothing is more personal than time management.
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Establishing relative importance is the first step
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that brings us back to our essential.
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Taking a step back to make our choices
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and not those that our environment imposes on us.
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If we listen to our boss.
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a teacher of our children,
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our nutritionists,
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our sports coach,
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that we'll find ourselves with a daily to do list
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of mandatory tasks occupying 24 hours of the day.
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It's impossible to arrange everything.
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All of these tasks might be important.
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But are they vital?
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This is how we can reduce our to do list.
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What is imperative.
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If I don't do this,
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what's going to happen?
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Are there things that are a matter of life and death?
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Play with all the points on your list.
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Have fun looking at how your fears that might make you run from left to right
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are magnified in your mind.
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If you don't help your child with their homework,
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are you afraid that he'll end up homeless?
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If you don't spend Christmas with your family this year,
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are you afraid that the relationship will definitely be broken?
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If you tell your boss that the file will not be finished Tuesday,
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are you afraid that you will be stuck in your career?
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I have coaches who stopped spending 1.5 hours a day
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tracking information on their cell phones and on the news.
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They realized that they still succeeded in guessing the important information
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on what was happening in the world from their entourage.
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They were less knowledgeable on current affairs,
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but they gained precious time
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for the sake of their essentials.
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Putting into perspective the need to know everything,
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to be informed about everything,
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this is quite a challenge in this era of information overload.
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establishing the relative importance is first of
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all getting rid of a heavy pressure.
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It's not the end of the world if I don't do this,
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if I don't know this,
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and it's often this heavy pressure,
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whether it's coming from society,
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from our education,
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or from our past fears
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that prevents us from making the right decisions
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and the right choices.
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Of your imperative tasks,
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your matters of life and death,
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it will be short,
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and then start to breathe.
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Then you can peacefully make a list of what's important to you
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and not for the others,
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your essentials at the moment.
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Why not make this list every day.
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Time management tools and methods are very useful,
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but they do not serve as a reflection on the meaning of your life.
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Analyzing your use of time can lead to questioning your expectations,
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and it's a risk to be taken.
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The second piece of advice to get back to the essentials,
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to live in the moment.
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It sounds simple,
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but the mind is rarely in the present.
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It's either in the past or in the future.
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It analyzes the past and plans the future
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towards the goals it has set
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like an almighty master.
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It is not experiencing the current moment.
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To live in the present is to return to the five senses,
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to experience the moment like a child playing,
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absorbed and happy.
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It doesn't care neither about the past nor the future.
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The mind is delighted when it arrives to the destination it set for itself.
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Whereas the senses are delighted along the way
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during the journey as long as it is beautiful and invigorating.
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Imagine that you have 100 kilometers to go.
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The mind will be delighted to get to the destination,
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but if the travel along those 100 kilometers is a hassle,
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devoid of any pleasure,
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The mind will tell you,
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it's the ego's satisfaction that prevails.
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This is what I have done,
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this is what I have achieved,
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so I am a really good person.
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The experience of the current moment will have been sacrificed,
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but it doesn't matter to the mind.
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infinite efforts from us and will convince us that it was worth it.
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It knows how to manipulate us very well
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by giving us its to do list.
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I'm not saying it's not good to have ambitious and rewarding goals.
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if the path to get there is not joyful,
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it's better to reconsider your action strategy.
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We can reconcile joyful path and ambitious destination.
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There is no point sacrificing the present
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to build the future.
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The last part of this video
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is the secret of the five essential things.
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What your mind believes to be essential at a given moment is not essential.
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with the wisdom of experience,
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Have you heard of Bronnie Ware's a palliative care nurse,
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her best selling book
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Top Five Regrets of the Dying?
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not the life of others.
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express your feelings.
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Keep in touch with friends,
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and allow yourself to be happier.
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This is the wisdom of our elders transmitting to us what
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ultimately at the end of their life seemed essential to them.
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Live your own life,
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not that of others.
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express your feelings.
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Keep in touch with friends.
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Allow yourself to be happier.
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Is there a point among these five essential points that you can put at
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the top of your list and would agree to spend more time doing?
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I'll give you a moment to choose.
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this acceleration of time is providential.
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It forces us to grow in consciousness,
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to be more and more awake
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and responsible for our choices.
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It's not about suffering from lack of time or managing your time,
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but more about choosing your life.
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What do you choose to experience now?
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What do you choose to live now?
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Choose the life you want to live,
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refocus on your essentials,
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and magically time will come to serve you in that sense.
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