How is your relationship to time?
Most people don’t have a good relationship to time. They’re at war with it.
They either have too much of it…or not enough.
You tend to experience time in one of two ways.
1. You have too much time on your hands and you’re bored.
You can’t seem to find enough TV shows to binge-watch or video games to play. You endlessly scroll Instagram without any sort of fulfillment or purpose.
2. You don’t have enough time.
You’re in a constant state of low or high grade “hurry.” You want to get everything done but there’s not enough time. You want to be done with everything so much that there is no joy in doing.
Your chest might hurt. Your heart might beat fast. You might have a constant sense of stress and anxiety that time is slipping away from you.
You are at war with time…and it’s winning.
The core problem with this perception of time is that you HAVE it or don’t HAVE it.
Here’s the reality.
You can’t “have time.”
You can’t control time. But you can control your perception of it. The best way to do that is by realizing that it is not real. You cannot “have time.”
If you use the word “have” and “time” in the same sentence…then you don’t have time. Time has you.
It’s bigger than you. Stronger than you. It doesn’t care about you. It doesn’t even know you exist.
And it has one thing on its side…time. All of it.
You can only make time. You are the creator of time. You can make as much or as little as you desire.
So what is the answer? It is to realize that you are the source of time. You are the maker of time.
And you can make time for what matters to you.
It’s about removing the “hurry” from your life. You know the feeling of hurry or rush. It’s normally accompanied by anxiety and a desire for “more time.”
But the truth is there is no more time. There never will be. Time is insensitive. It does not care about you or anyone else. It moves at the same pace no matter what. Never faster. Never slower.
If that seems a little too “out there” for you then I’d recommend you start your morning by repeating one phrase over and over until you’ve made your bed or had your morning coffee.
“I am the creator of time. I make time for what matters and accept that I can’t do everything.”
Say it SLOWLY.
Feel the relief wash over you like a pleasant mist. Feel your body relax as you realize that you make all the time you need…and you always will.
Get up. Breathe deep. Move slow. Embrace the moment. Set the tone. Now the day is yours.
The next step is to go on what’s called a “Time Diet.” I explain that in-depth in the Almost Passive Income Challenge.
If you feel at all like you’re at war with time then I highly recommend you check out my FREE training on how to create Almost Passive Income for yourself:
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Talk soon,
Ian “you are the creator of time” Stanley
