Master Time, Then Forget It

Master Time, Then Forget It. In our lives, time is important. Many believe that time is our most precious commodity. The older that I get, the more I tend to agree. Therefore it is essential for us to master time — using our time as efficiently, effectively, productively, and fully as we possible can — in order to ensure that we do not waste our time.

This means that at the beginning especially, we have to get very deep into time. Personally, I timed everything throughout the day. How long I worked for (and how much time exactly I spent on various parts of the work). I timed how long I trained for, how long my WOD, Cardio, Yoga, and Martial Arts practice was that day. How long my language study took.

I spent many years working this way. (I still do.) It is important that I have a clear idea of how my time is being used, and where my energy is going (including how effectively I am using that time). This is important at a certain phase because this is the data that you need to build and optimize your various processes well.

Yet at a later stage in the journey, time becomes irrelevant. It matters not how long we spend doing something, but the doing itself. The action becomes the meditation. The action itself becomes the goal. [In the context of my writing and research, ‘I desire deeply to enjoy and master the research and writing process.’ That is what I want to do. The learning process.]

We know what our goal is. We have both short term and long term goals. We know what we are working on.

Master Time

There is a time and a place in our journey where we need to focus on time. In the realm of personal mastery, ideas like time management are necessary to bring our attention to at a certain stage. We need to think deeply about how we spend our time, perhaps even going so far as to log the hours spent on various tasks, just to add clarity to our understanding of how

Forget Time