#417 – Whose time do you live by?

If you don't stand up to the Ghost of Time Indifference (GoTI), it'll get a hold of your internal calendar and you'll live in perpetual anxiety and/or procrastination.

When I'm anxious because my son doesn't seem to use his time properly (properly according to me, that is), I'm listening to my GoTI––what is he waiting for? Why is he spending so much time doing that?

The Ghost doesn't care about natural processes. If it believes you're "wasting time" because you're walking to the gym (13 minutes) instead of biking (six minutes), then it'll kick your behind so that you take your bike. And when you get there, if it believes running in addition to lifting is too much because "work, work, work," it'll cut your training short.

But, interestingly, I have all the time in the world, it says, to work on my book, to finish the course I want to sell on Udemy, to rebalance my brokerage account. So, it allows me to idle after breakfast, playing Wordle and reading Substacks.

The truth is that, like its colleagues and boss (your Ego), it doesn't want you to grow. And because growth takes time, it messes with yours so that you lose track.

Not enough time to do what it thinks is "useful" (make money, work on a job even if you don't enjoy it, be preoccupied)––rush, rush, rush!

But no need to start today doing the things that really matter––you'll have time... someday!

It was during a meditation that I realized how "fabricated" our collective idea of time is. With just white space behind my eyes, it felt like time had stopped, like it was suspended. Or that I was suspended, not bound to time. That's when I knew: the Ghost is a lie.

Where in your life do you feel not bound to time?

Love,

Carolina