What is time to you?

We’re not really “saving daylight.” We’re just shifting our perception of it!

Time isn’t really a thing. It is really nothing but a viewpoint. It is an idea. It’s a linear measure of an experience.

It’s recollection of the past, attention in the present, anticipation of the future.

After all, we all know that the time spend in the dentist chair is different than the time we spend having fun!

What do we do “to” it? Well, we…

• kill time,
• waste time,
• do time,
• pass time.

Has time ever “stood still” for you?

How fast did time go when you were taking a timed test?

And then others do that too. So we all get together and we come up with agreements on what we experience. We find ways to measure it: clocks, calendars, all that stuff.

Yep, it’s all just a matter of our perspective. After all, consider the turtle…or the hummingbird. The turtle is super slow at everything, from OUR viewpoint. From the turtle’s viewpoint, it is normal.

To us, the hummingbird looks like it is zipping around at a million miles an hour! But, that’s normal speed to the bird. To that bird, it likely looks like we’re moving around like molasses.

All of us, as humans, have the same 24 hours per day, the same 7 days per week. But, yet, we’ve all seen both the really active and productive folks as well as the laid-back, relaxed and seemingly lazy folks.

Everyone is marching to their own drummer. It’s like we all have an inner metronome, setting a certain rhythm with each of us. For some it runs faster, for others it runs slower.

What we each choose is our individual choice.

And, yes, we can start to make a shift to our inner rhythm.

After all, it’s all good!

Is one better than the other? 

No, because it’s all a choice!

We need only to remember that life is a gift and time is how we choose to experience it.

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Oh No! some more word play!

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Information is not wisdom

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The notoriety of Walla Walla!

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When “why” is the wrong question

Our brain loves to solve problems. It functions beautifully to figure out how to make a pumpkin pie, sail across oceans, or build a house. It’s a wonderful tool for creativity. But if we are trying to understand ourselves, find a way out of suffering, it can derail us because our minds get caught in […]

3 lessons from a squirrel +1 extra

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That elusive balance

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What is the Ben Franklin effect?

You may know a lot about Benjamin Franklin-for example, that he invented bifocals, graces the $100 bill, and experimented on electricity with a kite and a key. But you may never have heard of the Ben Franklin effect that was even cited in Dale Carnegie’s book “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” In a nutshell: […]

More word play!

Oxymorons are fun to play with! (after all, I am an ex-English teacher!)  Ever wondered about such phrases as… icy burn? fight for peace? definitely maybe? How about … government organization? act naturally? open secret? Why do we use phrases that don’t seem to make logical sense? For one reason, they are fun! Oscar Wilde […]