Experimenting with Time
by Sally ~ April 21st, 2010. Filed under: Choices, time management, time savers.
“The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains.” – Marcel Proust
Last week I talked about how I am “experimenting” with time in order to make a positive difference. Click here to read it.
It’s important to realize that your emotions ebb and flow. And that it’s not a matter of if you will get frustrated but how you will deal with it when it happens.
Here are some things that I will be playing with and tweaking to see what works best:
- 1. Changing thoughts and reactions about time
- 2. Creating new habits
- 3. Keeping better track of successes
- 4. Limiting the things I work on
- 5. Letting go of the unimportant stuff
- 6. Adding more fun, relaxation, and rejuvenation
One thing that always helps is to stand back and breathe and get some perspective.
The good news is that there are already strategies that are working now. I’ve got plenty of things that have helped in the past and some new ideas to try.
I’ll be sharing some more articles and ideas with you. Many of you have told me this topic hits home!
April 21st, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Sally,
I found your latest Inspired Quote of the Month to be serendipitous. I just started reading “Proust Was a Neuroscientist,” by Jonah Lehrer. He argues that before science discovered many of the truths about the brain that are only now being discovered, art discovered it many years before. Lehrer shows how (around 1890) Proust discovered that memory was fallible, particularly by taste and smell, both of which are directly linked to the hippocampus, unlike the other 3 senses. This was proven by Rachel Herz in her paper “Test the Proustian Hypothesis” in 2002.
In addition, the book exemplifies Walt Whitman, George Eliot, Auguste Escoffier, Paul Cezanne, Igor Stravinsky, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Wolf.
Thanks for the quote and inspiration. I identified with it on several levels. I look forward to the upcoming hints and tips you have to share on this subject!!!
Nan-Leah
April 21st, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Nan-Leah,
Thank you for sharing your findings! Very interesting. Sometimes I think there is so much intuition with art that we have knowledge and understanding that is hard to put into words.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:27 am
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