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Blog 63:

Time – we either have so much of it on our hands, we don’t have it or it is running away from us – literally and figuratively.  Life structured around time could both be good and bad. 

When time is regimented, we don’t have to stress about how we go about our tasks.  Undertakings just go round and round like clockwork. We don’t have to worry about where we’ll be next and how we are getting there because we have allotted a period that we follow to the minute.  For instance, a bell schedule in school moves students in and out of a course, a place, even if minds are not almost always in sync with those changing locations and stages.  In a factory, a clock sets the start and finish times of every item to be completed.  Everything becomes almost mindlessly robotic with exceptions of human emotions playing along or getting sidetracked in intervals.

It is when we live through unregimented time that we fall out, get behind, and sometimes, become overwhelmed.  Our mindset does not follow a discipline of either a linear or horizontal paths.  We loathe or love our free set up to plan how our day … week … month … even year because we don’t know how things and situations might move along.  We either push ourselves to get things accomplished or get nothing done at all.  This is true in the situation of a corporate manager perhaps.  One finds herself/himself loosely get to a workplace (not necessarily a physical spot!), touch base with people by phone, through an e-conference call, intercom or e-mail;  one finds he/she could hold a meeting on personal discretion, be someplace near or far at one’s pace, season, schedule.  We think this is serendipity, but it’s not!  This is a “do” or “die” with business transactions, moving money in the markets, making life/death and economic decisions.

We are always going to be governed by time that we set for ourselves or time that others will set for us.  What we do with our own beat, however we program our days in our lifetime is our own business. Whether we are comfortable with regimented or unregimented time is not the most crucial concern.  In our lifetime, we must guarantee that we can ethically account for our time.  How we use it and whether someone is benefited by our input and time matters!