Thu, Jan 18, 2024 9:24pm
Don’t you just love it when you can bend time?, I asked my friend
What does that mean? It means that when I have a long list of things to do and I allow myself to accept the work that needs to be done without upset, without really expectation just knowing that there lies ahead of me a list that I have created. And there were just a few things on the list and I dictated what I was going to do and how I was going to spend the next 2.5 hours before going to work.
I am a master of time… Sometimes. Sometimes, I’m the master of time.
The more I track my time is the more I see how I spend my time. And the more I see how I spend my time is the more I decide if that’s how I actually want to spend my time. And so, when I go into my little Google Sheet and I have the days broken down into 15 minute increments, I can see not a romanticized, historical view of how I spent my day but truly how I spent my day.
Do I really want to continue scrolling on social media for the next two hours? Or would I rather pivot and do something else? I’ve gotten into the habit and then out of it and then back into it and then out of it and thankfully I’m resting in it again, of updating my time audir every hour or two or sometimes three or four. But consistently throughout the day.
I don’t do this when I’m at work that it’s a separate issue. But on my own time I track my time.
So within, so without.
I choose how I want to be inside of myself so that I can be that way outside of myself, too. I’m able to bend time and create more of it because when I decide what needs to be done, when I prioritize what needs to be done, when I accept what needs to be done, I allow myself to do it. And so I do! I get things done. I get more done in a way that feels so good to me. And so for 20 minutes, I chatted with my friend and we caught up because it’s been a while since we’ve seen and spoken with each other.
And then we spent 50 minutes working independently, co-working virtually, actually and in those 50 minutes I felt like I actually had 2 or 3 hours! I moved from one thing to the next seamlessly and I felt like I was swimming through them with ease. With finesse. With grace. Just accepting the water as warm, as tepid, as inviting. Instead of me feeling like I was swimming up current or swimming against a rip tide, I swam in warm water with the current, allowing the work that needed to be done to get done. Allowing myself to do the work that I needed to do. And so 50 minutes became very quickly what felt like 2 or 3 hours. And then when I reported back to my friend at the end of the 50 minutes what I got done I was actually surprised, truly surprised what I had accomplished!:
- I made my bed.
- I ate dinner, red beans and rice. Super delicious!
- I journaled a sentence but a sentence is better than literally nothing.
- I opened some packages
- And I even listen to two staff meetings at work.
And so how do I make more time? I pay attention to time! I pay attention to what I need to do, want to do, and must do. But above all, I pay attention to what I get to do and then I get it done! And God rewards me with my diligence. God rewards me with my intention. Each and every time!
And so I’m grateful that I can bend time, because I have a very intimate relationship with the Master of it. The creator of it.
