Trust yourself with time
A Vision Week series, pt. 1
What do you trust yourself to do with time? If you were granted an extra five hours in a day, how do you imagine you'd use that time?
Where would it go, and what would you receive in exchange?
The reason I ask is because until we trust ourselves with time, we're stuck inside of it; barely noticing the hours pass by as we loop around the water we swim in. We fail to notice those extra pockets in the day that are delightfully our own. We forget, for example, that we can always start the day over, that 5 am is not the only time to write or move or be creative, that there is no law saying you have to have what she had by her age.
Before we trust ourselves with time, we believe too easily those things people say about it—that it's everything, that it's nothing, that it's infinite and constrained and gone and here—without questioning whether those beliefs are actually supporting us in building the kind of lives we want to live.
When we don't trust ourselves with time, we don't trust ourselves enough to take that walk before starting our to-do list or to say no to the activities that drain our energy without replenishing it.
Until you trust yourself with time, you will lose yourself in the monotony of "shoulds" or "supposed tos" and you will delay your discovery of your magic, your flow, those places where your hours slow down and speed up simultaneously, where every next step or next word or next thought fits perfectly into the fabric of your life.
Time is everything, time is nothing, time is infinite and constrained and gone and here and if everything is everything, what do you trust yourself to do?
And to think I thought I had nothing to write about this week. Just time, nbd.
This is the first part of a Vision Week series, in honor of…well, Vision Week. I’m hosting this three night live event beginning next week on January 9.
We will begin the first night of Vision Week with a conversation about time. What is it, what do we believe about it, and how might we get what we want from our relationship with it?
Where do you need structure, and where do you need a blank page? What symbols are you using to represent what you believe about time, and are those symbols (and beliefs) what you actually want?
I don't have the answers—that's not my job. But I can promise that I will put you in a room with other people who are also asking these questions, and that together we will find…something. And I can promise that it will be fun.