by Fawn on August 17, 2010
One of the disadvantages of being a human in the 21st century is that we’ve become the ultimate racing machine—and not ultimate as in unbeatable. We rush through our day, ticking off items on our agenda like laps around the track, sighing and shaking our heads at the clock as we whiz by. And even though we’re behind, we throw in a few extra pit stops and maybe a detour—still hungry for that checkered flag. The problem with racing the clock, however, is that whatever time we get … the clock reached it first.
We resolve to take second place hoping to earn extra points for our effort. I had a boss, once, who’d answer his cell phone even while perched on porcelain. One of my ex-coworkers returned from washing his hands in the restroom and claimed he heard the boss’s voice carry on a one-sided conversation from a stall. And, sadder still, I didn’t doubt it. Our boss was like that—bound to cell phones and PDA’s to the point of depriving himself a private poop.
Time is money, after all. [click to continue…]
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Time: a simple noun we’ve turned into a four-letter word complete with negative connotations. Most of us would like to ignore it and everything it represents but are, instead, thrown on the battlefield burdened by tasks and to-do’s and promises to still fulfill. In addition, the obstacles in our path—things that weren’t suppose to be in the way like car accidents, computer problems, and fostering a litter of kittens—forever increase. Regardless how much or how little we accomplish today, we think tomorrow will prove more productive and so we schedule it that way—flipping an obvious finger to that thing called time. [click to continue…]
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Summer brings an array of excuses to get out of town—graduations in May and June, family reunions in July and August, and weddings on into fall. This year perhaps your house landed on someone else’s itinerary. Yes! Let’s imagine you are expecting company—and not the dreaded person that encourages you to schedule an out-of-town emergency or to work overtime, but one of your dearest friends lost to hectic schedules and a new life in a state you refuse to visit.
Your friend plans on staying a few short days. You wish it were longer but [click to continue…]
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by Fawn on February 13, 2010
Are you the kind of person who spends your life chasing the clock, frantically trying to regain the minutes, hours, months, even years lost to who knows what? Do you feel as though the proverbial stopwatch starts when you roll out of bed and stops when you fall asleep–and not a millisecond before? Perhaps you tackle four times the number of tasks any ordinary person does, yet you still feel you’re not doing enough. Sound familiar? Uh huh.
(Photo courtesy of Ebby on Flickr)
People are trying to accomplish more in less time than ever before. Technology has made us hungry for information and things. We’re like a dentist’s daughter or son visiting our first candy store: we want it all. We gather one, maybe three, of everything but there’s no way to assimilate it all. As adults we are not much different. The greater our exposure, the more we learn and our desires multiply. The trouble is, Father Time [click to continue…]
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