| Time is on my side, yes, it is! Each time I think | | | | 6. I have no patience! |
| of time, Mike Jagger’s melody enters my | | | | The gardener does not watch every single second if |
| mind
For me it is a song, for another a tragedy. | | | | his tomatoes have grown, nor does the expecting |
| What is time, that it consumes so many of us; how | | | | mother ask her baby to be born before term! The |
| much of it we have, how little, what to do with it, | | | | mystery of creation and creativity demands that one |
| how to conjugate it? The following human | | | | respects nature’s timing. From the perspective |
| reasons are offered as the clever and humorous | | | | of allowing, how long it takes is irrelevant! Life, like |
| making of our mind time machine
| | | | art, takes what it takes, and as long as it will take. |
| 1. I don’t have any! | | | | Today become pregnant with something; a book you |
| Time is generally viewed as a measurable device. We | | | | will once birth, a decluttering project, a fitness |
| are saving it, spending it, clocking it, wasting it, | | | | goal
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| investing it! Time is money! Some of us experience | | | | 7. I’m too busy! |
| lack, some abundance: If we just had money, we | | | | Sidney J. Harris said it beautifully: Indeed, the time |
| could buy ourselves time
If I just had time, I | | | | to relax is when you don't have time for it. Are |
| could make more money
I once read an | | | | you hiding behind your busyness? Are you afraid to |
| unforgettable fortune cookie: it is not as | | | | find out that you don’t know what to do with |
| important to count time, as it is to make time | | | | yourself if you were to stop? Is the fear of |
| count. Choose a moment today to use and utilize | | | | emptiness making you fill time? Today do something |
| fully! | | | | full-filling: go see some great art, really taste your |
| 2. My time or yours? | | | | food, talk to a stranger as if he were a friend
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| This one concerns the overly committed, who is | | | | 8. I didn’t do it! |
| serving on so many committees, and helping so many | | | | Most teenagers cannot wait to be older, and most |
| friends, she has no time to take care of herself | | | | middle age people regret their youth. Then there is |
| adequately. Time to learn to say no to others, | | | | the viewpoint of time being too long when in pain, |
| and yes to my goals. Today pick an occasion | | | | too short when in joy, too slow when bored, too |
| to say a simple no, thank you and do | | | | fast when passionate
Byron Katie wrote: |
| something in that time you had never done before! | | | | there is no beginning of time, only beginning of |
| 3. I was born that way! | | | | thought. Experience it for yourself: right now, |
| As long as I recall, I have always been late. Is | | | | remember a very happy event in your life. Got it? |
| being late a statement you enjoy making? Or are | | | | Next, right now, imagine what you might be 10 years |
| you late because you attempt to do too much at a | | | | from now
Would you then agree that the past |
| time, and try to prove your worth by scheduling | | | | and the future only exist from the decision you made |
| more in a span of time that it can possibly contain? | | | | in this moment to bring them to your consciousness? |
| Today do whatever it takes to arrive 10 minutes | | | | 9. This is Miller time |
| early to a meeting, and experience the expansion of | | | | I love it: there is sunrise, sunset, and Miller time! |
| your momentum
| | | | Isn’t it correct that you find time for what |
| 4. I am not ready! | | | | you want to do, and love to do, be it drinking a beer, |
| There have been times where I have used destiny | | | | exercising, writing, or socializing? So if you cannot find |
| and Ecclesiastes’ saying (For everything there | | | | time to clean house for example, would it be |
| is a season and a time for every purpose under | | | | appropriate to say that you did not choose to make |
| heaven,) as a reason to not change. My time | | | | time? Ask yourself today what is the real reason |
| hadn’t come, I would say! The sobering | | | | behind you’re not finding time to do such and |
| thought about waiting for the perfect time or | | | | such? Begin to change your ritual today to align with |
| procrastinating is that tomorrow might never come. | | | | your conscious decision. |
| To add to the dilemma, I’m not ready | | | | 10. I don’t NOW |
| may become it’s too late! Take action | | | | A client once asked me how I could accomplish so |
| today on something you were not ready to | | | | much in so little time. Before I could say anything, my |
| do, dive, and watch your creative power soar! | | | | heart answered: Simple, I stay in the moment! |
| 5. I’m in a hurry! | | | | The spontaneity of this revelation transformed both |
| This one is also about control, but in the other | | | | of us. As long as I listen to my heart, my mind and |
| direction
The motion of life is oscillating, spiraling | | | | my soul, and do what I am told to do, I find that |
| rather than straight and linear. Today, stop pushing | | | | there is time for everything, which makes for a life |
| the river: allow a certain amount of meandering time | | | | well-lived. The feeling is magical, time stands still, and |
| in which to do nothing. As you develop a habit for | | | | eternity embraces one with the kiss of an ardent |
| that, watch events that you could never make | | | | lover. Just being here and now -- hear and know is |
| happen occur spontaneously! It’s all in the | | | | all
That is a magnificent gift, appropriately named |
| rhythm, man, all in the curve! | | | | the present! |