Time is precious...

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My first post of 2018 is about time and how prescious and fulfilling it is.  

Time is incredibly precious, time has become a friend of mine.  

The vast majority of us have a different relationship with time.  I don’t have enough time is a well known saying that reverberates through conversations, social media channels, and personal chatter.  

Five seconds, five minutes, five hours.  Time feels like forever.  Heartbeats can be elevated or even slowed in 5 minutes.  Smiles can be shared in 5 seconds.  Laughter can fill a belly all afternoon over 5 hours.  

Beyond food and water, everyone needs play, everyone needs sleep, everyone needs to connect, everyone wants to and needs to be loved.  Too often, everyone tells themselves they don’t have time.

We are all guilty of rushing and scrambling through a day, a week or even a month.  We all are guilty of moving from one thing to the next, trying to check things off lists as if productivity is the ultimate indicator of everything.  More importantly, we are all guilty of telling ourselves that the things we crave will take too much time, time that we simply believe that  we not have.

What if we actually did have this time? What if everything we craved could be gained in a few minutes? 

Since changing jobs in the last month, I have allowed myself time.  I have noticed time.  I no longer (for a while anyway) am tied into a schedule all day.  I have allowed myself to slow down with the support of my wife and have had new opportunities.  

None of this took time.  I just got my time back. 

The huge majority of us, use watches and clocks as measures of our progress. How long can I spend in the bath? How long is the bus going to be? How long will it take to do the shopping? 

Every one of these measures ignore all the smaller indicators. The goosebumps on your skin from noticing a sign that reminds you of something you love or the peaceful scene that you witnessed that reminded you to take a breath.


When I changed my job, it felt a little like de-cluttering, like I had spring cleaned my wardrobe.

Maybe like me, you can make a small change to get some time back? So what can you do to create more time? Maybe you need to release expectations or assumptions or perhaps you could let go of judgments around what it means to be successful or productive.

Just like de-cluttering your loft or throwing out those clothes you have been trying to get into for the past two years.  A focus on what needs to be amplified cultivates abundance. I believe that by releasing expectations, you can amplify being guided by intuition.  To me, time is nourishment for my mind, body, and soul.  

I spent so long trying to beat the clock, feeling like I needed to focus on my packed schedule that I never had time to be distracted.  

My life feels so much more complete now that I have time management.  This time has fulfilled my heart and given me clarity of purpose instead of constantly looking over my mile long to-do list.


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