I read such a sentence on the screen in the tram, where they were teaching Estonian through word games. But isn’t this the same problem that organisations face every day? Because there are 2 things that are always lacking at work: time and money.
And by constantly making up for these two shortcomings, we fill our working days hoping that the problem will be solved. It’s like constantly chasing a carrot you can never get. However, there can never be enough time or money. And it is a perpetual problem and a source of exhaustion. The situation will never change, now the choice is to be a victim and complain or change your attitude. Perhaps it is wise to rethink your attitude to time?
By constantly living with our sights set on the future and dreaming that someday we will have enough time or enough money, we end up not living life and the carrot, so to speak, keeps on rolling.
Slowly coming to terms with the nature of time has helped me to redefine beliefs, the most important of which is a new phrase in my system: ‘There is always time, there is more of it at every moment.'”
Time is something you cannot control, but something you can be present in and realise that this is exactly the life I am in at the moment. In fact, all change begins with our acceptance of the present moment.
Life is not a minute from now, or tomorrow, or a minute ago, or yesterday. Whether I enjoy this moment here is one of the most important questions. Am I content, happy, enjoying this second?
When we stop chasing time and start being in it, life starts to flow differently. We really calm down. Time is no longer a constraint. Rather, it is a space in which to experience life, in all its peace, exactly as it is.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that dreams and visions of the future disappear, but if I act on them today, and act as if they are present, then the future is already today. Life is not a conditional verb (“When I get/achieve x, y, z, then …”), but the present.
Maybe it’s not about how to reach more and do more with time, but how to lose less of the sense of being in the moment. What prevents being in the present second and what prevents it. Often it’s our own thoughts and stories in our heads that we consider to be ‘external pressures’. Totally our own internal story song though.
Rethinking time is something that can make the search for peace and happiness unnecessary, because then we realise that it already exists. Having experienced this more and more, and at first thinking of it as an esoteric rant, I suggest you try to work it into your belief system.
But of course, it’s up to the driver if you want to be happy, relaxed and happy. If not, chasing a carrot is okay too. Any choice is the right one, it’s just that the results may be different. The picture is of my country shed – a place where time loses its everyday meaning because the pig has everything and nothing at the same time.
