What If What We Needed Wasn’t More Time

Symptoms of lack of time often go along these lines: there is no time to invest in actions that do not measure well on the efficiency scale right now. Scarcity of time creates perceptions that we then need to create logic for.

It seems like we are gaining time to have a pre-washed lettuce inside a plastic bag. It make sense when what matters is to reduce actions unrelated to human productivity: less time spent prepping lunch, more time to do all the things.

It seems like we are gaining time when we have emergency strategy meetings with the same people around the table. Because they already know what this is about, no need to waste time and explain to others who then might have a different view…we don’t have time for that.

It seems like we are gaining time when we make sure that all meetings start with a round of managing expectations and a clear agenda. Because we’ve all been part of meetings that did not have this structure and ended up wasting our time.

When all that matters is productivity, we will always be in a tug of war with time. What if this was one shifting belief nowadays? What would it morph into?

Maybe time would be a clean slate, a new page, a gift if you will. And what do you do with a gift? You enjoy it.

Many already occurring shifts are gaining speed nowadays, maybe one of them is our relationship with time.

What if what we needed wasn’t more time, but a healthier relationship with time?