I notice more and more that as everything seems to speed up, people are concerned more about saving time.
I like to ask them this: “Where do you keep it? Under the mattress, in a bank shaped like a pig, in a safety deposit box?”
They generally look at me blankly. What can I mean?
The general idea behind saving a commodity it this: you will have it available at some future date when you really need it.
Say you are speeding towards the airport, anxious because you are late. You could sure use about 30 minutes extra right now.
“Whew,” you say to yourself. “How lucky I stored that away last month. I’ll just make a withdrawal right now.”
Does it ever work that way? No.
All of the time saving devices we have invented just lead to more complications for us to manage, which of course takes more of our time.
We seem to be on a continual headlong rush to the future, which we don’t even enjoy when we get there because we are fatigued and harassed by the rush to get there.
What if we slowed down, breathed in slowly and deeply through the heart, and focused on savoring the moment, rather trying to “save” the moment for some future use.
What if we spent the immediate moment savoring all the things and all the people we appreciate, feeling gratitude for those gifts.
The greatest gift will be the ease and joy you feel in your body and in your heart.
Lynette Crane is a Minneapolis-based future-focused thought leader, speaker, and coach.
After creating the first college course in the Psychology of Stress over 40 years ago, she turned her attention uncovering the leadership potential of introverts in her ground-breaking book, Quiet Brilliance: Solving Corporate America’s Leadership Crisis with ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ Talent.
Her newest program, Evolutionary Resilience Roadmap, based on the latest research in neuropsychology and quantum physics, is designed for people overwhelmed by the anxiety and uncertainty of our turbulent world, giving them the skills to develop clarity, coherence, and creativity.
