10 tools to improve your relationship with time 🕰️
Hello dear reader,
So, last week, we had a bit of trouble with the sound on the pod. I’m not going to lie, it was a bit frustrating for us all as we are working so hard on trying to bring you the best content we can on our new pod. So, we have re-recorded and this week’s should be much better! Thank you for sticking with us as we learn. It’s hard isn’t it - we want to be brilliant straight off the bat, and that’s just not possible for most of us mere mortals. On top of that, I found the time wasting element of it so hard. What a waste of TIME to have to do something again? I spent all that TIME doing something, preparing for something, just to have to go again?
But why is that a waste of time?
Why do I see it that way?
Why do we see that using a block of time in one way, and then perhaps making mistakes, and having to do it again, as a negative thing?
I’m trying to practice what I preach, embracing the fact that I can’t control everything, and I definitely can’t control time. This stuff happens, we learn, we go again, we do it again, we get better. This is good, this is OK. This is not wasteful.
And so, this week’s podcast develops the theme of time and our attitude to it a little more. We’ll take some of the theory from last time, and put it into meaningful practice - because, what’s the point if we can’t action it in our lives? If you missed last week, I focused on two key points: we are fixated with time, and that life has limits.
This week, we look at HOW we can learn to look at time differently, and live with limitations.
I’m not going to give you all 10 tools here, otherwise there will be no point in listening to the pod, but here are a couple to whet your appetite, that I’ll unpick further in the pod!
• Embrace Strategic Underachievement - how to fail at the right things
• Consolidate Your Caring - sadly you can’t care about everything, so pick your battles
• Embrace Boring Tech - if you want to focus, make it easier by making it boring
• Practice Doing Nothing - the way to show we’ve accepted that time can’t be mastered, is to learn to sit and do nothing
Listen in to hear a full run down of 10 simple, doable ways you can shift your relationship with time.
I’d love to hear which one you start with!
Love, Hannah x
P.S. We heard some tragic news from one of our clients this week. Lea Milligan, the CEO of MQ Mental Health suddenly passed away. Lea has been a passionate advocate of mental health, and of leading from a place of Strength. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, and all the team at MQ. The team at sidekick will be making a donation to the work of MQ - if you want to find out more about what they do, take a look here https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/home/