You Become What You Spend Time On.

Janco Vorster-My Afib Heart
7 min readMar 31, 2021

What is worth your time and what is not.

It’s too obvious you say. We all know it. But do we really understand it? Spending your time on something is spending your life on it. You only have one here on earth.

The more you do something the more you become it. The first time you start running, you are not called a runner. If you run every second day and keep it up for a few months, people will call you a runner. Later you will receive other tags like “fit”, “in shape”, “healthy”, “full of life” and so on. It all starts with what you spend your time on.

So what are we spending our time on?

This is not worth your time.

Hating someone

The time and energy spent on hating steals your very precious time. Why spend it hating?

You hate or dislike a politician? Just look at the way he/she draws you in and steals your time. To hate someone you have to spend time to know something about them. Why waste your time.

Hating someone is a waste of energy and time.

“To hate everything is to be wounded by everything.”– Marty Rubin

Being bitter

anger and disappointment at being treated unfairly; resentment.

But are we not taught that life is unfair? Well if we did not learn it somewhere we get to experience it somewhere along the way.

Being resentful and bitter is like drinking poison every day and thinking that another person will die. Newsflash! they don’t even know about your bitterness most of the time.

We spent so much time thinking about why we were treated unfairly. Many times we fight it inward and outward. Sometimes we win, but most of the time we cannot change the way we were treated.

What if, maybe, why me. It is a time grabber an attention thief. Unfortunately, we find some sort of pleasure in it. But still, it is wasting your time.

I can hold on to that, that bitterness and that anger. It won’t get me anywhere. — Brian Banks

Waiting for the right…

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Janco Vorster-My Afib Heart

www.myafibheart.com Blogger, Tetralogy of Fallot(TOF), AFIB(Atrial fibrillation) and panic! survivor. Weight & Body tracker notebook https://amzn.to/3hVGCUd