Different Interpretation of Time in Regards to Time Management
Time is internal, essentially a psychological construct. Have you ever been in a really bad situation and time seemed so slow, minutes seemed like hours, and an hour seemed like a day. Have you ever been in the reverse situation where you were truly enjoying yourself and time flew by-you felt like an hour had passed and it had instead been many hours? Have you ever been bored and again time seems to go on forever again? Have you ever faced a problem and every minute (hour or day) the problem seems to grow larger and larger even though it is basically the same problem? Time moves “in and out” and seems to grow larger or smaller depending on how we feel about it. When faced with deadline, how do you feel about what you are doing? In order to create focus and concentration is it crucially important to “rid” yourself of the “demons” inside you, in regards to what you are doing. What will it take to make time fly? The book Flow, calls it “flow”. People “in flow” get done what needs to be done and are the most highly effective people. When you feel like you are swimming in molasses, and time is endlessly slow, you are “out of flow” and not as effective as you could be.
Indian concept, time is circular. The past is the future and the future is the past. Some things or the same type of thing/s seem to happen to us over and over and over again. We get caught up in the same patterns, and a version of what happened before is happening again. Most people chose to see feel and hear what appeals and agrees with us. But if certain situations seem to be recurring in you life-like for example someone who gets fired a lot, maybe there is a reason. Maybe the person who is getting fired should open their own business. That individual’s personality is not suited to working for someone else-or that individual needs to “modify” how they look at bosses. If sales are “circular”, bad times versus good times. Maybe more consistent marketing is needed, to make sales more consistent? Recurring business problems most of the time means that a change is thinking is crucial, in order to efficiently handle the situation. In terms of time management if the same problem keeps rearing its ugly head, fixing it will instead of wrestling with it over and over again, creates more time. In the consistent firing example, it takes a lot of time to find a new job. Instead of asking yourself what you are “doing wrong”(most of us don’t like to admit we have made a mistake), ask yourself how and what to change so the same circumstance doesn’t keep coming up?
All time is relative to your time in space. I will use money as an example, in terms of money, for example, you can do the following. For example, if you have a million dollars ten dollars for a drink at a cafÃ?© is OK. If you are homeless, ten dollars for a drink is generally not even feasible, and if not dressed properly can’t even go into the establishment without raising eyebrows. Money is relative depending on how much you have. Your space, “in space” is how much money you have and it is truly relative to how you act. One experiment is to try and “think” how you would act differently given certain impetus. For example, if you had a million dollars versus 500, how would you act differently? If you can, then “act” in the millionaire mind and potentially create that millionaire mind. For example, in the above example, of the homeless person, get dressed “up” and go to the cafÃ?© and spend the ten dollars once a week on a coffee drink-and socialize if you can. This may “open” doors for you. To create millionaire space and time, act as best you can in this fashion.
Parallel Time. Also called “synchronistic time”, or “symbolic time”. In a movie, you may watchâÂ?¦this would happen when one character is “doing” the same thing as another character. For example, let’s say that one character is on the phone, then another character is on the phone at the same time. That parallel time. One method of time management here, utilizing synchronistic time is a “synchronistic supposition”. Essentially based on the idea by Carl Jung, is his book on synchronicity, synchronicity is described as “something” coincidental happening. For example, Jung describes an incident where a woman in his care is talking about a dream she had of a black raven, as she does so, a raven appears on the windowsill. The woman then has a “break-thru”. Essentially, time management on this level is “don’t ignore the coincidence”. A synchronistic supposition is essentially, pay attention to this coincidence. Take a moment or two or three and “pay attention”. Take a few moments out of your day and consider the coincidence in terms of an idea.
Spiralic time: Essentially a spiral is time that is related to circular, where something seems to happen over and over again. The difference in a spiral is that “you see it differently”. Let us say that you undergo a break-up, and the person tells you it is because you have “bad temper”. Then you date someone else and they say the same thing. And then you date yet someone else and for the third time, they say to you, “you have a bad temper”. In circular time, this would not change. In spiralic time, the second time or third you begin to reflect upon your temper, and you say, well, maybe I should control my temper and the next time you are tempted to “blow up”, you do so. You change. A spiral breaks the pattern. It is literally a way out of a circle. In terms of time management, consider that if you receive the same criticism from let’s say two or more people, consider that they may be right. And “look” at yourself honestly. Considering changing that very behavior? In this way, you “save time” because you are changing what is interfering in your success.
Different interpretations of time, different non-linear ideas, cause me to look at “things” differently-inspire me and give me mental “food for thought”. I wear different watches on different days to remind me symbolically, of different ways of time thinking. Non-linear time is an emotional, psychological and mental construct. There is “outward” time and then there is “inward” time. Inward time, when taken into account has made me much more effective in my life and in my business.
