An Easy, Instant Way to Take Pressure Off Yourself Today
“Time is the soul of this world.” — Pythagoras
Adjusting your relationship with time can have magic therapeutic effects. Feeling calmer may not sound like the most thrilling benefit in life —but the next time you have a blow-out it will seem priceless.
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
— Delmore Schwartz
Can you relate to Delmore’s motto?
The last time you were “burned” you probably felt stress, pressure, self-loathing and maybe even shame or embarrassment.
And yet we do it to ourselves over and over again.
Ouch.
But there’s hope, even for the most time-foolhardy. The secret lies in awareness.
Which of these are you underestimating?
When estimating how much time it takes to accomplish X, there are three common scenarios where we burn ourselves:
⏱ getting somewhere on time