Mastering
time
by
mastering
yourself
In the past year how many
times have you caught
yourself asking the question
“where has the time gone?”
For most of us, the months
appear to have sailed by so
swiftly this year. That yacht with
all our good intentions, hopes
and wishes pulled anchor on 1st
January and didn’t wait for us to
‘be ready’.
So it is every year. We begin the
year with positive intentions,
for events to hold, people to
meet, activities that will see us
grow and develop, moving in
the direction of where we think
we want our lives to go.
As the months go on you resign
yourself to the understanding
that there’s not enough time in
the year to finish what you had
initially set out to do and really,
you can’t even remember that
passion you initially had.
But then March and April come
by and the inspiration and
momentum starts to fade as
the excitement of the new year
begins to blend into midyear.
The months flow from one
to the next. Daily tasks are
getting done, you respond to
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people’s question of “how are
you?” with “good thanks, you?”,
but really your soul is aching.
It’s watching that yacht sail
further off towards the horizon,
knowing that there is no chance
of catching it again this year.
You’re happy enough in your
day to day routine, keeping
yourself busy with the daily
tasks that need to be done.
Yet every now and then that
feeling of longing, that ache of
emptiness, of stagnation comes
to the surface again.
I believe that every human
being wants to grow and
develop in some way over
the course of their lives. In
fact I believe it is essential. I
believe we are here to awaken,
to appreciate, to delight, to
contribute and to inspire.
So what if we could catch the
yacht? What if we did take
action, imagined ourselves
jumping on a jet ski to catch
the waves right up to that yacht
then jump on board? Would
we know in which direction we
were taking it? Would we know
how to speak with the wind
so it whispered into our sails,
propelling us forward? Would
we know how to harness the
power of the great ocean so
that even through the roughest
of storms we’d be able to
maintain our course and come
through the other side, arms
stretched wide to the sunshine
and cry out loud “thank you,
what an awesome adventure!”?
Without direction and vision,
what does it matter if we get
to the end of the year sooner
rather than later?
“We are here
to awaken,
to appreciate,
to delight, to
contribute and
to inspire.”
Whenever I think of Time I think
of the Cheshire Cat from Alice in
Wonderland and the conversation
they had in the wood:
“Which way should I go?”,
asks Alice.
“Well that entirely depends on
where you want to get to”, grins
the cat.
“I don’t really know…” answers a
confused Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which
way you go!”
Are you allowing Time
to lead you; drawing
you from one day
to the next without
consulting you?
Are you allowing daily
nuances to get in the
way under the guise
of being too busy?
It is your responsibility to take
back the power of your Time,
to make a commitment to
yourself to learn and to grow.
It’s not going to happen next
month, next year or in the
next 5 years because Time has
other plans for you. It has an
agenda, a destination which
affects you at the deepest core
level; Time is counting