It seems everyone is talking, writing and thinking about ‘making time’…. it’s a hot topic and the mastery of it is everything.
I learnt many years ago that you can generally ‘find time’ for things you really want to do, it’s mustering up the will to ‘make time’ that takes the concentration. Never has that been more true than today with the continuous technological advances that seek to steal your time at every turn. TV’s, mobiles, internet… all promise instant access, speed and immediacy and yet they offer too the perfect opportunity to wile away hours of distracted time. Before you know it an hour has passed and you have a dozen tasks started but not finished.
In this age of frenetic activity the state of ‘mindfulness’ – thinking only of now, in the moment, is ever more attractive as we don’t just seek to improve our time management we are looking to manage our time differently. In fact forget time management it’s attention management that we really need. Yes! It’s time to put some control around our distractions.
How much time are we really losing because we didn’t pay attention the first time and are having to revisit things again?!
Resourcefulness can’t happen without a bit of breathing space either. Taking time to think, explore and even just breathe a little more slowly and deeply is certainly a start.
So here’s a great place to begin. Sit down clear your head and give this observation, by the much acclaimed, Eckhart Tolle, some quality time and attention…
“In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being” Eckhart Tolle
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