{"id":971,"date":"2017-06-19T05:04:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T05:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/Daryl_Chow\/Blog\/wordpress\/fullcircles\/?p=971"},"modified":"2017-06-19T05:04:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T05:04:59","slug":"moretime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/moretime\/","title":{"rendered":"The One Thing You Can Do To Have More Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Make<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Become less busy.<\/span><\/p>\n

In our haste to do more, time speeds up.<\/span><\/p>\n

In trying to go at the speed of light, we fail to live at the speed of life<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In our busy-ness to work hard and play hard, we make it hard to have a good time. Must life be this hard?<\/span><\/p>\n

When we try to catch up with time, it slips us by ever more quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anxiety to do more and be more has it’s way of speeding up the clock.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Urgent things are not like an urgency to go to the bathroom. The more urgent things, the faster time goes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, by re-calibrating ourselves to the essential things, year after year, month after month, week after week, and each new day,\u00a0 helps us synchronise with the steps of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry David Thoreau said, <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not enough to be busy. The question is: what are we busy about?\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps the rhythms of our hearts determine the rhythms of time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Time ripples on, with and without you. Time exists in motion regardless of our opinions, delusions, and fantasies.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Thus we are busy people just like all other busy people, rewarded for the rewards which are rewarded to busy people.” – Henri Nouwen1<\/sup><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

So make time, by becoming less busy. This is probably the biggest struggle I face in my life right now. But it’s a worthy challenge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Some might say, “But I can’t. I’m busy as hell.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Can we afford to drown in the sea of busy-ness? Matthew Kimberley says that feeling overwhelmed is not necessarily a function of having too much to do but rather not knowing what to do next.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lets make room to exist in time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Walk, slowly. Don\u2019t gobble down your food. Don\u2019t major in minor things. Figure out what’s vital. \u201cOur highest priority is to protect our ability to prioritise.\u201d2<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cTell me, what is it you plan to do<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

with your one wild and precious life?\u201d\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

~ Mary Oliver, From the Summer Day<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Notes:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Henri Nouwen, from The Way Of The Heart<\/a><\/span>, p.22.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Greg Mckeown, Essentialism<\/a><\/span> p. 101<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}