We complain all the time about the lack of time. This is especially acutely felt by residents of large cities. But have you ever thought that maybe we just don’t know how to spend it correctly? Let's try to figure out what is time?
Time is divided into arbitrary units. A person who has studied the laws of nature and the cyclical nature of its phenomena, such as the change of day and night, seasons, phases of the moon visible from the earth, created conventional units of measurement. So there was a day divided by hours, an hour divided by minutes, a minute not a second. A week also appeared, a month, a decade, a quarter, a year, a century, etc. appeared.
And so it happened, but with the help of these universal units we measure everything. We measure the time spent at work, the duration of sleep, rest, vacation, vacation, food, gym classes, etc. Life itself is divided into these time periods. We know how many people should be in kindergarten, how many at school, college, how much they should work, when to retire, and even when about to die. It turns out that man himself created this pattern and himself became its slave.
The system determines everything - time spent at work, on the road, at lunch. Arrival time of train, plane, train. Time to arrival, average travel time, average time, in traffic jams, elevator, for brushing teeth, washing dishes, etc. All life is just numbers! We know the average static calculations of everything in the world. Even the average duration of sex is known to us. Average time of movies and music tracks. Average time spent reading books! Each person falls by the system of medium static measurements to the level of banal numbers. There is practically nothing left of individuality - each is simply an arithmetic mean calculation of an electronic computer!
But this knowledge is not easier for us, no worse. Of course, we can throw the clock out the window, reset the clock on the phone, on the computer, on the microwave, in the refrigerator, in the car. But even if we do not pay attention to the recording of time on checks, on parking tickets, on watches on roofs of houses, on television screens, our life will turn into chaos. We will not be able to work, we will not meet with those we have agreed with, we will not be able to catch a plane to the warm sea and lose money. In general, we absolutely will not be able to interact in society.
Time goes its inexorable way. It cannot be stopped, it cannot be accelerated. Time lives in parallel with us - we either adapt to it or are always late for it - we are trying to catch up. Time is something that does not depend on us - we are dependent on it. Whatever we do, no matter how hard we try, but from time to time we will not run away. It remains only to adapt to it. Or in other words - take control of your time.
To take time under control is to use these conventional units for absolute control of one's conditionally designated being. It means using time for your specific goals.
Do you know that thirty minutes a day can make you a millionaire? Or ten minutes a day will make you the most compelling woman? Or the most confident man? Or in thirty minutes a day you will go to the harmony of your inner world?
But the thing is very simple and it starts small. First, using a watch and an alarm clock, teach yourself to get up and go to bed at the same time. Or if it's still difficult, set aside fifteen minutes each morning to clean the apartment.
Fifteen minutes, no more, no less - detect fifteen minutes on the clock and determine the purpose - for example, to wash the floors. Ok, the next day the goal is to clean the bath to a shine. The next day, wash the refrigerator, or wash the window in the kitchen, or clean the carpet, or wash the dishes. In two weeks your apartment will shine and sparkle! When you don’t know what to do, sort out all the things in the linen closet, or sort and discard old shoes. Thus, in fifteen minutes a day in a month your apartment, your house will turn into a clean well-groomed nest, in which new thoughts of inspiration and ideas will come by themselves.
And so, with everything else - choose a goal, then what you were given wanted to do, but you did not find the time. Five minutes a day at exactly nine in the morning for meditation - please! Now you are approaching the center of your being five minutes a day closer and closer. Ten minutes a day for the disclosure of female essence - please - at ten minutes after eight a passionate dance to your favorite music dedicated to your ideal. Do you want to become rich - please - thirty minutes a day control income and expenses, view stock quotes, view new investments, open a new business, introduce new development technologies.
Allow half an hour a day to engage in creativity. Half an hour for what you have long wanted to do, but you never found the time. Exactly thirty minutes without distractions. Regulate your personal time in front of your home so that no one bothers you, and calmly do what you have long wanted to do. Drawing, embroidery, modeling. You will see that half an hour is not enough, but don’t overdo it - put it off for tomorrow and see how every day you will strive to get closer to these long-awaited “half an hour” in order to continue your creative project.
So, from the small something great grows. Either it is put off “for tomorrow” all its life, and gathers dust in old suitcases, or it starts tomorrow with “five minutes” and never ends.
In the end, the time taken under control does not conditionally mean us, or categorically shows us the framework of the development of being, and the person himself, using the framework of a limited time, expands his potential to infinity. And if it grows spiritually, life itself goes beyond time and continues, endlessly using the curvature of time and space to expand the boundaries of consciousness and the spheres of influence on life itself and that which goes beyond life.