When I was about four years old I asked my uncle to buy me a watch and teach me how to tell time because “before you know it, I’ll be old”. I’ve been “watching time my entire life because “time goes slower when you watch the clock” or, as Einstein put it, “Time goes faster when you’re sitting next to a beautiful woman”. I have a fascination with time but I’ll save that for another day!
One of my favorite ways to watch time is calendars. I keep several but my most favorite, and most effective is what I have come to call my Freedom Schedule. Most people use their calendars, in my opinion, in all the wrong ways. We put in the things they “have” to do first. Then we try to squeeze the rest of our lives in around the things we don’t really want to be doing. We forget that we can “make” time (It IS relative as our good friend, Albert, taught us). We don’t “take” the time because we don’t “have” the time to create the lives we desire. Is it just me or does that sound like craziness?
When I realized that freedom is a state of mind I knew that if I wanted freedom in my external world, I would have to create it first in my internal world. I put my weekly schedule into an X-cel spreadsheet (but you can use method you prefer). I color-coded all the areas of my life, like family, health, work, etc so I could SEE the imbalance. the sight of this prompted my to create a second schedule, the one I really wanted, the one I would choose if I “could”.
At that moment, I understood that it was all about mind-set and that I could use this as a tool to remind myself to make choices based on what I really wanted and truly valued. With it I have been able to create a free mind which brings with it freedom with not only time but money, health, love, fun, all the things that make life, LIFE.
Take the time to make the time to have the time to LIVE!
The META-METHOD 