Allowing Time to Work For You
We all have moments when we must follow an itinerary, and everything else in our lives revolves around it. There are some who maintain an itinerary day in and day out. Some may live off the grid and dial in by sunrise and sunset. Others journey by random encounters. What about you? Are you steered by time, or is it a tool for coordination?
Time becomes important when it is attached to outcomes. To be respectfully early or fashionably late? When is the baby due? RSVP within 2 weeks. Beat rush hour or last call for happy hour. Meet your blind date. Pick the kids up. Your groceries are ready. Piano lessons have moved to Wednesday. The new manager has called a meeting Thursday. The house is being listed on Friday.
What are these types of things like for you? Do you make your appearances and crash out after? Do you handle things and stress-sleep about the things yet to come? Do you wait until the last minute and overwhelm yourself?
It can be so easy to get wrapped up in time and meeting obligations. It is also easy to use time as a tool.
Time works for you.
It’s similar to the way a calendar can provide structure. Days, hours, minutes, and seconds are universally accepted systems based on the premise that you cannot be two places at once. Yet every day, we text while standing in line, email while waiting for appointments, video call someone hundreds of miles away, or watch a live stream from somewhere we are not.
Most of us already do this without thinking about it.
We coordinate. We overlap. We make room.
These things don’t require anything special from you, and neither does time. You don’t have to become the most efficient multitasker to make things easier. In fact, you don’t have to make anything. You don’t have to take things as they come or manage the fallouts.
It’s more simple.
Show up for it.
Be there to see it.
Recognize.
Alter.
Change.
Show up again.
Participating Differently
“Everything unfolds in its own time. Each thing has its own life and its own rhythm. Fertilizer can encourage plant growth, and blossoms can become bigger and bolder. Shouting at it won’t make it happen any sooner. Cutting it back will only make it grow more next season.”
— Rann E Goldrich
Frequency & Amplitude
Until next time,
nurastarann