The Less Routine the More Life
When I first heard Amos Bronson Alcott's motivational quote, "The less Routine the More Life" ...it made me stop and think. What was Amos trying to say? What did he want to accomplish by saying those 6 words? What does it mean for me? The less we become “slaves” to our jobs and “obligations” the more we can live and allow opportunities into our lives. It is frustrating when we know what we want to accomplish but we don't know how to make our goals happen but we should never give up on our dreams. My dream is to build a helpful and useful website for English learners (and I think I am on my way) but sometimes life gets in the way (work, responsibilities, the flu...) The way I deal with it is trying to prioritize and really analyzing my time. Am I really as busy as I think? I am now using “google calender” from my gmail account and I have found that I get more done. I can see what my weekly responsibilities are but I can also create reminders and tasks for each week. It feels VERY good when I can cross off one of my tasks as being finished. (Writing this month's newsletter is now finally complete as well). I believe that we sometimes become too comfortable with our routines and the fear of change or the unknown stops us from trying new things or welcoming new opportunities in our lives. This happens frequently with jobs - people don't take risks because they fear being unemployed and unable to pay the bills - and also in relationships. (What else do you become to comfortable with?) What I am most interested in is how this idea can influence your English. How does routine effect you learning English? Do you have a hard time fitting English into your schedule?
Share your interpretations of Amos Bronson Alcott's Quote Below!
Now that you have heard my interpresation of the quote and what it means...I am curious to know what you think. Do you agree with my interpretation or do you see it as saying something totally different. Express and share your thoughts below and see what other visitors like you have said.
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Change is the Key to Success :D
You're absolutely right!!
If it exceed a certain limit, routine can not be just boring but destroying as well. It makes you lose the real meaning of ...
I agree with you
All my life is more routine and less life but when I decided to learn English things started changing and I hope to fight fear from my life and get the ...
Routine Can Be Very Dangerous: Stop It!
In my opinion routine is horrible. I know this because my life is very boring I used to do the same thing at the same hour everyday of the week. Even on ...
Routine could be a monster if you let it drag you.
routine is a monster that absorbs life if there is no a dynamic attitude. Get out of it...do enjoyable things, things that really fascinate you.
My interpretation of the quote
I think that he wants to say, routines are bad for your health, and if you don't have a lot of them, you will live more time. If you don't have routines ...
A Happy Life with Good Friends
I think finding good friends helps you. We are making our life happy. English is a good opportunity or the best opportunity to open new horizons to gain ...
Change or Comforming to Your Rountine
Hi, the way it makes me feel is that even when routine is neccessary, change should also be necessary. Everything can be routine but it is how you improve ...
You Must Not Live in a Routine!
I think the worst in life is living in a routine, it is being bored of our lifes, we should do something diferent everyday. If today you want dancing, just ...
Simplify your life
I am sharing the opinion of one of the friends below - if your job is your hobby, then you can make it a big part of the boring activities, like a declaration ...
routine is sometimes necessary...
Hello everyone!! In my opinion Diana is right when she says that the fear of change stops us, especially about jobs or friendships, but when routine is ...
The Less Routine the More Life
The Less Routine the More Life. Yeah this is true, I think so too...because we can change our life style, but we are lazy for this. I am always trying ...
Happy are those who Make their Work their Hobby
I think I coudn't agree more about Amos's quote. Routine kills creativity. Variety is the spice of life, so we should change our way of performing our ...
Routine + or -
I can see that routine can add postive or negative things in our life. First I would like to focus on the postive side. If we establish routines in our ...
Do not stop enjoying life
I agree with you and I think that routine prevents us from enjoying life, I'm not talking about just fun, by "enjoying" I mean appreciating the emotions ...
Life or Organized Confusion
We like to indulge in a bit of planning on all the things that we like to get done (e.g. a career move). But when we get down to actually doing things,...
Life is Not Easy
Life has different ways to give us an opportunity to get the things we desire. The routine kills you in different ways and we can change these circumstances,...
Try Something
I think, "the less routine" means to try something. To try something finally makes new oppertunities. New oppertunities can make more life. We have ...
Break routines to become more creative!
Hi Diana and all visitors,
I totally agree with you, and I really think if we want to improve and feel like we are growing during all our life, we have ...
Flexible Routine
It is sbsolutly true that daily routine can be a disadvatage to learn English or to do other things that you want. The best way to achive anything or ...
Routine Implies Stopping with the Life
My opinion is that while doing the same things, everything else is lost. Life is ever-growing. When it stops death comes for you. Routine does not permit ...
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