Time and Time Again! (Maggie)

Little Jamey is home!

He was released from the hospital this past Monday, and so he and his family are happy at home, settling back in, and, I hope, beginning to recover from the traumatic events of the past month or so.

Chloe, the dog, is home, too, and my life is back to peaceful again. Although, I have to say, Dozer misses her a lot! Every once in awhile he whines plaintively, just to let me know. As soon as Jamey and family are up to having visitors, I'm going to take him with me for a happy reunion.

And so now my focus turns back to every day life. The ongoing repairs to the house. The newest cover art. Updating websites and writing blogs and columns and outlines and so on. And this week it hit me that I'm always rushing. I'm always in a hurry. I'm always perceiving my life as having too much to do and not enough time in which to do it, and that can be really frustrating. Especially when the shortages always seem to be in the things that mean the most to me. There's just never enough time to do the things I love best.

Now, I know that we create our own reality, so I know that by believing there's not enough time, I'm creating my own shortage of time. So the solution is obvious. I need to change the way I feel about time. I need to relax about it, line up with the notion that time is limitless, and abundant, and endless, and that there will always be more than enough of it. But the question of how to manage that remains. It's a change in mindset. It's a change in attitude. It's even a change in the way I talk about time. I have to train myself not to have those conversations where I'm saying how busy I am, how much I have to do, listing the endless, endless items and ending, always with, "There's just not enough time!"

So I'm going to work on that.

One of my little exercises is a creation box. You choose a pretty box, and you write in someplace obvious, Whatever this box contains, IS! And then you clip things, pictures, and so on, that you want, and you put them in the box, restating "Whatever this box contains, IS!" as you put them in. I just started this box.

I also have a poster board where I clip and paste things. It's my vision board. It's in plain sight. I'm not sure which method will work better, but I can see the two are very different. With the vision board, the things I want are in front of me, so I think of them often. With the box, it's more like they're hidden, as if you've released them to the hidden forces of the Universe to tend to, and you can stop worrying about them. So anything that makes me worry about not having it, goes into the box. And anything I can think about without worry, but with joyous expectation instead, goes on the board. Some things will go in both places.

So I think I'm going to find a watch, maybe a pocketwatch, to represent time. And I'm going to find a photo of what I like doing best, what I want more time to do, and glue it to the face of the watch, and I'm going to put that into my Creation Box.

In addition to that, I'm going to try to be more conscious about the ways I talk and think about time. And before I know it, there will be so much of it that I'll have to invent new ways to fill it all.

That's the plan, anyway! I'll let you know how it goes!

If you have any suggestions for calming down and relaxing more in relation to time, please post away! I'm collecting ideas!

Hugs,
Maggie