I had one of those serendipitous moments today.
It didn’t come easy.
I struggled for many decades because I didn’t even know what were the right questions to ask.
It only came because, over the years, I had gotten better at seeding the right questions in my brain.
Over the last 3 decades…by reading about time management, by using every time management tool there is possible, by optimizing, by juggling, by prioritizing and by trying to run my life as a project…..I haven’t actually been doing what I thought I did – Managing time instead of letting time manage me.
Due to my eastern learning, fortunately, I also know that time itself is timeless.
With that context, here is the realization that dawned on me today.
Ready for it?
I actual haven’t been managing time or let time manage me.
Something more.
I have been trying to OUTRUN time.
Did you hear that?
OUTRUN TIME.
How foolish?
How contrived?
How conceited?
How powerful?
And yet, how foolish and futile?!
Originally published at ambalbalakrishnan.com