Time to do
(time rich and time poor)
I want to do ten things by a given date but I don’t
think I’ll have the time to do them all.
There isn’t enough time.
Actually, there is probably enough time but I find it hard to
effectively divide my time up into portions that I
can use productively.
So it might actually take 8 hours to do
one thing but that 8 hours will be split into ‘x’ hour chunks
– with breaks inbetween.
Thus the 8 gets spread over 36 hours and even then,
in the lead-up to doing and the post having done, it might take me
2 hours to realistically switch activities,
by which time, when I’ve actually completed the job,
I'll
actually have reached the end of another day.
And this, assumes it’s a straightforward task, where one step
follows another. More often the things we need to do involve
a myriad of elements; progress is limited by the rate at which
you can gather info or at which someone else can provide crucial
input. Such Complex ‘real life’ activities, can take up weeks or
months of our precious time. Imagine 8 hours threaded through 80
days, having to retain a memory of the various strands, in order to ensure eventual completion.
My time is worth a lot to me but I waste a lot of 'time's' value in a
wilderness; particles that swirl as if blown by trade winds through
my mind..."Maybe I should do that next? Should I do
that next? Nah,
maybe I'll do
that next." You get the mental picture...
too many maybes and not enough (do-b-e-es) doing.
In a way, I guess only the time I can effectively use is valuable to me
but I can’t always predict the periods in which this time will
be available. Besides which the most valuable time
emerges ...as-if-by-magic... from nowhere.
Contemplating that muse, move, mood, moment, music.
Drifting without reference to
TIME at all.
