Change Your Relationship With Time

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Oct. 16, 2021 – “Any degree to which you can see the truth that our time is limited, that we can’t do everything, that you can imagine far more goals than you could ever achieve but be OK with it, that is another degree you know you have taken ownership of your life and started to build a meaningful one,” says Burkeman.

Because the more actively we can accept and embrace our limited time on Earth, posits Burkeman, the easier it becomes to spend our time on what matters most to us.

To help guide us weary time travelers, Burkeman’s book poses five questions to help you reconsider your relationship with time. We obsess about the future, plan our days down to the second and schedule our calendars out three years deep because in aiming for time mastery, we seek a little more control over our lives.

“But you never really possess time in the way that you might possess a dollar or a pair of shoes,” says Burkeman. “You get a moment and then another moment, and it’s the same for absolutely everybody.”

We must first admit defeat. From there, the pressure is off on every level.