Time

Time is the most elusive and non-tangible asset available and yet it is in greatest demand by its owners. Workshops have been created to help us manage our time with the end result being “more time available” for other things. Friends and family wait patiently for each other because one or the other or both do not have the time to spend together. One may say to the other “Let’s have lunch when we have more time”. Sadly, we create self-imposed stress because the time we have is never enough, and when it is enough, we are too “stressed out” to notice.

Time cannot be purchased, bottled, packaged, and sold in your local supermarkets, department stores, and coffee shops. Time cannot be rescheduled to another day in an effort to add additional time to the 24 hours we are given on a daily basis.

The bottom line on time:
We have 24 hours each day, 365 days each year.

Can we obtain more time?
No, we have 24 hours each day, 365 days each year.

The one exception to the rule is Daylight Savings Time. Fall arrives and we gain an extra hour by “falling back”, bringing to an end that year’s daylight savings time. So technically…that is the only event in which we receive more time because we have 25 hours in one day.

However…when we spring forward at the beginning of daylight savings time…we must return that hour back to the cosmos and unfortunately, we only have 23 hours available to us for one day. In reality, that extra hour was on loan from the previous year, and as is customary, loans must be repaid.

For me personally…there is never enough time.

What is the definition of time?

time (defined by thefreedictionary.com)
n.
1. a. A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
b. An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration: a long time since the last war; passed the time reading.
c. A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval: ran the course in a time just under four minutes.
d. A similar number representing a specific point on this continuum, reckoned in hours and minutes: checked her watch and recorded the time, 6:17 a.m.
e. A system by which such intervals are measured or such numbers are reckoned: solar time.

Well there it is in black and white. Basically, a measurement of minutes, hours, days, and years.

As I simplify my life, I’m going to remove “time” from my vocabulary as it relates to what I can’t do, what I didn’t do, what I forgot to do, and what I don’t want to do. Instead I will use it as a description of my happiness and joy.

I had a great time.....This is an exciting time in my life.....Fall is my favorite time of the year.

I am no different than anyone else that resides on our planet. I have 24 hours each day, 365 days each year.