Thoughtful Thursday & Time Creation

Hello, friends!

Time is such a fascinating concept and it is something that I have had a lot of scarcity around in the past.

You could say, I have had a strained relationship with time.

Time is the most valuable asset we all have and we literally cannot get more time.

It is finite.

We all have the same 24 hours in a day.

However, there are things we do that cost time and there are things we do that create time.

This can seem confusing because we think of time as fixed but it is a mental construct.

It is a way that we can manage our minds around each day.

This is why one hour “feels” different from another depending on what we are thinking and ultimately experiencing.

You may be stuck in traffic and your car is hardly moving for an hour. That is going to feel very different than having lunch and visiting with a dear friend for an hour. The hour is the exact same amount of time, but it feels different so the way we talk about it is different.

Time goes fast or slow depending on how we think about it.

I like to think of time as something we spend or create. Sometimes we spend our time in a way that costs us. Other times we are more deliberate with our time which creates more time.

One of the first things to help us create more time is to consider how we cost ourselves time. Some of the main ways we waste or lose time are:

● Worrying

● Buffering

● People pleasing

● Indecision

● Confusion

● Judging ourselves and others

● Regretting

● Being overwhelmed

By paying attention to the ways we waste our time, and being conscious in reducing the amount of time we do them, we can literally create more time for ourselves.

Isn’t that amazing?