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The time war
Do you know anyone who doesn’t feel like time is shorter than ever? Even those of us who escaped the rat race are juggling priorities.
A whole industry’s been built around time management, and even though it gives quite valid advice, it never really seems to help. We delegate, prioritize, eliminate…and before you know it, we’re back to feeling under the gun.
It’s a war
It’s gotten to the point where most of us have a running battle with time. What can I offer to help? Rather than talking about my (great) tips on how to handle time stress, I’d like to go a bit esoteric on you.
What if we made peace with time, with the fact that we can’t fit everything into our available hours, minutes and seconds?
How can we make peace with time?
It starts with a decision, a change in attitude. Somehow we need to stop feeling like time is scarce, that’s it’s a relentless task master, and that it paints us into a corner of fewer choices left.
But isn’t that reality? Wouldn’t thinking otherwise be just pointless denial? Well, yes…and no.
True I can’t deny that I am getting older, or that there are fewer days left before the next loan payment is due. But that doesn’t matter when I get into the mind-space of “no time”.
No Time
When I focus entirely on the present moment, “ticking time” disappears. And then I stop worrying and start getting things done. I’m sure you’ve experienced the incredible surge of productivity that comes with having laser focus.
That increased productivity, in turn, allows me to make a good dent on my to-do list, which reduces my time-stress.
Sounds good in theory, but how do we place ourselves in the “no time” zone?
Like I said above, first we have to decide that we want to stop worrying about how little time we have left, and to start focusing instead on what we can control.
Then we have to decide what now deserves our full attention, our next priority.
Finally we may need to be prepared for repeated worry attacks. The best way for me is to remind myself of past experiences: worrying about looming deadlines have always backfired; concentrating on getting my priority done is what got me much further ahead.
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