Time – Friend or Foe and Making it work with you
What’s your relationship with time like?
The way I see it there are only two ways of looking at time: either working with it, or against it – as a friend, or foe. This relationship can ebb and flow, but I find that it’s usually either one or the other at any one moment. The trick is keeping time working with me. It’s an unbeatable force and if I try to fight it and contain it, I only end up frustrated. So, our only hope is to befriend time, treat it with the respect it deserves, and have it work with us.
Some of the ways to have time work with you:
- Investing Money
- Planting (food, house plants, landscaping, etc.)
- Reading
- Education
- Engaged with people
- Exercise
- Using sun screen
- Creating a book/blog/movie/art/song/software that will live on after you have finished it
- Basically anything that can grow positively with the passing of time.
Trying to fight against time:
- Doing too much in a day
- Rushing through conversations with people
- Buying stuff that won’t last or appreciate.
- Buying and selling stocks/investments quickly without the proper research and education.
- Driving fast
- Sitting and waiting for something to happen
For better or for worse, that’s how time is. Either you’re working with it, understanding it, using it, considering it, utilizing it – or you’re frustrated.
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