Tag: Time

Time poor, mind

Fortune cookie saying
Time is the one thing everyone gets the same amount of each day. But days and years vary for everyone.
Small Florida bug black with red markings
Busy sure, yet capable of noticing the smallest of details in the grass (then mulch). A small black beetle with tiny orange spots.

Am i time poor? And, does it even matter?

Time poor is when you are so busy, you cannot afford to waste any time.

You are living without any discretionary time.

No extra time to do something that isn’t required.

All your time is spent in “have to do’s”?

Can you imaging having discretionary time to spend on “get to do’s”?

As i lean into discomfort this Summer, i want to waste more time than i ever have.

Wanting to spend time well-wasted.

Busy doing nothing.

Bug watching.

Sky watching.

Thinking crazy thoughts.

And so on and so forth.

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The thing about everything, mind

Disney leadership keynote speaker
Make no small plans, for they have no power to stir your soul.

The thing about everything is that everything takes longer than you plan.

Noteworthy, there’s an exception to nearly every rule.

Exceptions are rare.

So something you plan to do happening in the time you thought it would take is rare. Even rarer is it happening faster than planned.

Then there’s the paradox of planned time and actual speed.

Let’s say you plan to live 80 years (planned time) but you live your life in 70 (actual speed).

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Time, mind

a couple in the mountains
So grateful to have the opportunity to visit a rare glacier every summer.

Time is all we have.

If your mindset is aligned, you take this knowledge as a gift.

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The paradoxical key

Right in front of me, 15-feet up.
Dead center in this photo is the content from the previous photo. Taken last night from a sitting area.

The paradoxical key to a peaceful life is to slow down.

Slow down to speed up.

How to slow down has been a decades-long priority for me.

Speed isn’t the issue.

Too much to do is.

So?

Don’t have too much to do.

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Mental gymnastics

wordpress admin dashboard
Lower right-hand corner, in red, “Missed schedule”. Hate when that happens. Yesterday GoDaddy Advanced Technical Support resolved my database issues. So coincidental that this happens less than 24 hours later. Has to be freak coincidence unrelated to anything else.

Overheard the phrase ‘calendar gymnastics’. Intrigued. It implies we need our calendar to perform like a gymnast. So i’m flushing out the concept five ways:

  1. Mental gymnastics
  2. Physical gymnastics
  3. Spiritual gymnastics
  4. Career gymnastics
  5. Priorities/Calendar gymnastics

Starting here with mental gymnastics.

Gymnast assumptions: Fit, flexible, strong core, balance, excellence, competitive, driven, no room for error.

To me mental gymnastics means we use all the gymnast’s traits to “perfect” our growth-mindset.

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