Over a single day, a choice changes almost nothing. Over ten years, every small daily choice turns into an avalanche.
Can a person’s future be predicted in any way?
If you set the murky fortune-telling context aside and look only at solid things, certain patterns do become visible.
Our life is made of habits. What we do today on autopilot, without thinking, is what makes up our life over the long run.
From the perspective of a single day, it doesn’t seem to matter much how we ate, whether we went to the gym, whether we sat in a social feed or read a book, whether we spent time with family or played games on the computer. On a 24-hour scale these choices don’t affect us much.
But on a ten-year scale, it’s important to understand that every small daily choice turns into an avalanche of consequences. Good ones and bad ones alike.
And across decades, our daily habits shape either a happy, harmonious life or a troubled, tragic one.
So it’s fair to say: who we are now is what our future will be.
God willing, in a couple of years we’ll be living the way we spend our time today. And the more wisely we invest our 1,440 minutes each day, the better our life will be tomorrow.
I’ve been studying human behaviour and habit formation for about 11 years.
Everything most valuable and important I’ve found in that field I’ve gathered into one educational programme: Time Management. It isn’t just a course where you learn to write a to-do list and pick the main task for the day — although that skill is useful too.
The Time Management programme is deep work on yourself and your behavioural patterns, so you can understand why you do exactly what you do, and how to start acting differently.
It’s an introduction to yourself and your habits. It’s a chance to change yourself and the shape of your life.