I am pretty sure Xmas just happened and somehow it’s April. Hilarious. IT IS APRIL! Just 263 sleeps until Xmas again. Perhaps it’s time to “reframe time”.
Not that I am a Griswald kind of girl who counts down the days in eager anticipation, (although I am partial to a fairylight or two thousand). But because I think most of us are constantly surprised at how fast time passes. We sport shocked, but trying not to be, expressions, (think Michelle Obama accepting Melania’s gift), and utter inane things like; ‘It can’t be Xmas again already!’, ‘Didn’t I just have a birthday?’ and ‘What on earth happened to summer?’
Unless of course we are kids, then it seems to take for-evvv-errrr for it to be your birthday, holidays or Xmas again.
When you grow up it seems you enter a time warp and time speeds up right?
Scientists have been trying to figure out this phenomena and whilst there are a number of theories from relative experience, to amount of stuff you need to fit in to life, there is no real agreement. We just know that it certainly feels that way.
So until these scientists figure out how to extend time or bend time, we’d do well to learn how to reframe time.
Perhaps because in reality a year isn’t long at all. It is a meagre 52 weekends. That’s not even one and a half lined A4 pages of ideas (I counted 38 lines on mine) of things you want to do or books you want to read or extreme haikus to write, the last one’s just me right? Do you feel my panic people? Breathe in… breathe out.
I like to reframe time when I am working with businesses and people.
52 weekends or 4 quarters of thirteen.
52 Mondays to make those calls. 52 weeks to try that experiment, learn that skill or ask for that business. 52 chances.
I like to remember I will only have my daughter Darcy as an eight year old with all her eight year old curiosity, creativity and cleverness for 52 precious weeks (particularly when she is having one of her I am a teenager in a child’s body moments)… 52 weekends for eight year old adventures.
A year isn’t long. Yet most of us are stuck in our childhood perspectives of time thinking we have all year. Our thinking needs changing.
We need to think differently about time.
You see folks, this year we are a quarter done. This is the first month of the second quarter of 2017. Which means we are almost down to just one A4 page of stuff to achieve if you do just one thing a week.
Not one year… just one page left this year.
(Or 37 Wednesdays until Xmas for you festively minded.)
Make sure the stuff on your list is meaningful.
Go.
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