Learning that time is not your enemy but your friend is important for success in any domain, or facet of life that we have. We tend to think of deadlines, due dates, limited time series or anything that puts pressure to finish as a enemy yet time is meant to be our friend for success. How we see time is critical to how we relate with it.
Time is a Foundation of Success
Time is the foundation of life and hence success. Think of building a house, in order to get the building off the ground you need the foundation, anything that happens afterwards in terms of building is dependent on the existence of that foundation. If the foundation is not there then here is no building. The foundation is the opportunity and the base for success; it creates the base from which building becomes a possibility.
Time is a standard to keep us in check
When we think of deadlines we might think of the pressure to deliver and the amount of effort that is needed in order to do what needs to be done. Time in the form of deadlines and due date is a measured standard to which if we do not conform to we lose out on the opportunities that it presents to us. Think of time as that qualification standard that is needed to run the race. In order to qualify for the Olympics for any race there is a time standard that you must meet, once you meet the time trials you can go to the Olympics. Similarly, success is like the time trials, it will present you with windows and doors for doing specific things and in those windows and doors is a standard of time.
Time keeps you company
No matter what it is that you do or where you do it, time will keep itself attached to your reality. It is that one invisible friend that keeps tagging along no matter the circumstances. Though it ticks as it should, time remains present, forever a reminder of the different possibilities that exist in life. How you then see time’s presence is critical to any success that you want to attain.
Time is neutral
We seem to have natured this belief over time that time can be attached to circumstances of occurrence. So people can say that “it is a time of bad luck” or that “the time is wrong,” yet in real essence time is neutral. What is not neutral are the events that occur in time. “The time may not be right” is simply pointing to events happening in time which may not be favorable, so one has to get the right favorable event in order for “the time to become favorable”. When we mistake the sun and the moon for time we are forgetting that these are just symbols in the sky which have no bearing on time and its movements. Yes the moon affects tidal waves and other many objects but that is not time. Think of time as a blanket in which everything exists in.Time cannot be seen or touched but it can be made use of. Events can happen in time but not out of time.
Time is not your enemy but your friend, once you learn that time can be used to your advantage the rest will be up to you to implement.
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