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Happy Monday!

There is another guaranteed way to discover abundance in time: let go of trying to control what happens.

This is a hard one because our daily lives center around creating order to reach goals and to manage and respond to what is happening with our selves (body, mind, emotions), with each other (same list) and in our environments (natural, social, work, economic.)

Control is a tool that has served us our whole lives:

• Control is how we face the unknown.
• Control gives us a sense of security and assures us that we are in charge of everything that it is possible to be in charge of.
• Control is power to make things happen.
• Control is a way to get people to do what we want.
• Control helps us eliminate undesirable factors and predict and prepare for the future.
• Control enables us to manage what is happening – so that things don’t get out of control.

Control is such a useful behavior, why would we want to let go of it?

Because contrary to our belief – control actually limits our ability to freely live our lives, to creatively respond to what is happening and to relax, to be stress free, to know abundance in time. Read more…

Substitute, “I need to control what happens” with “I am open to all possibilities.”

“How many times will you continue to press a button that does nothing? Do you press elevator call buttons that are already lighted—despite your suspicion that, once the button has been pressed, no amount of further attention will hasten the car’s arrival?”

James Gleick (from Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, p.30)

Happy Monday!

Ok, so we’ve established that:

1. What keeps us from knowing abundance in time is our inability to accept what we have – we always want more and,

2.  Time as we know it and live it is a mental construction.

But, while we’re working on being satisfied and playing around with our ability to shift our time perspective – we still have our endless to do lists and routine daily demands.

How do we “manage our time” and respond to what is happening? Read more…

Substitute, “If only I could reach my goal right now!” with, “I am…savoring…the process.”

Thousand Layer Lasagna Recipe from Heidi Swanson

Gather your Ingredients

1 pound fresh egg pasta sheets (or make some from scratch)
butter to prep baking dish
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 28-ounce can crushed organic tomatoes
zest of one lemon
3 4-ounce balls of fresh mozzarella, torn up into little pieces
a handful of slivered basil (optional)
freshly grated Parmesan (optional)

Savor Each Step of the Process

Preheat your oven to 375. Start by clearing off every flat space in your kitchen, you are going to need and use all of it.

(Click here for the full recipe from 101 cookbooks.com )

Bake until everything is melted and fragrant, 35 minutes or so. Let it sit for 10 minutes before serving, so everything has a chance to set up a bit. Dust with Parmesan and a bit of slivered basil.

Serves many.

Happy Monday!

What’s on your schedule this week?

Does it matter, with everything that needs to get done, that time as we know it and live it is only a mental construction?

Sure, some say that time doesn’t actually “exist” but the social and economic fabric of our global society (and all of our technology) runs on our collectively built and individually maintained concept of Time.

With our calendars and clocks, our PDAs and watches – our appointments, deadlines and responsibilities – of course time exists. Because we created it, and live our lives by it, time exists for us.

The clock helps regulate each hour of the day so we can plan our lives. Read more…

Substitute, “Time is my enemy” with “Time is my friend.”

“Jean Traore, an exchange student from Burkina Faso in Eastern Africa, finds the concept of ‘wasting time’ confusing. ‘There’s no such thing as wasting time where I live,’ he observes. ‘How can you waste time? If you’re not doing one thing, you’re doing something else. Even if you’re just talking to a friend, or sitting around, that’s what you’re doing.”

from A Geography of Time by Robert V. Levine (p. 91)

Happy Monday!

There is never enough time.
If only I had more time.

Do you ever have these thoughts?

I know I do. My scarcity mentality always kicks in when it comes to Time. For some reason, there is never enough.

Especially when there’s so much to do…juggling a million and one priorities, rushing to get things done on time, pressured by endless to-do lists and we need to keep up with everything that is happening and there is always something else that needs to be done and…if only there were more Time.

In our fast-paced, multi-tasking, ultra-busy lives, how do we Know Abundance in Time?

This week’s post is the first in a five part series on Time.

Why spend so much time talking about time? Because our understanding of Time affects our relationship with every aspect of our lives – and in today’s world we live our lives by the clock. Read more…

Substitute, “There is never enough time” with “I have all the time in the world.”

“Your time perspective biases you. It can put blinders on your eyes, plugs in your ears, and barriers around your mind, depriving you of fully appreciating who you are and what you could become. It causes you to see everything through one lens, which can prevent you from learning from the past, enjoying the present, and planning for the future.”

Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd (from The Time Paradox p. 297)

Happy Monday!

Are you trying to figure out how best to use Web 2.0 strategies to raise money and visibility for your organization and cause?

The buzz around companies like Facebook and Twitter crescendoed recently with Barack Obama’s presidential win.

His use of social networking sites and new media has been identified as one of the top strategies securing his victory. Now, everyone wants to learn from his tactics and mimic his success.

How do we sort through the hype and the buzz? Read more…

Substitute, “Running to catch up” with “Taking time to plan.”

“Dusk – of a summer night. And the tall walls of the commercial heart of an American city of perhaps 400,000 inhabitants – such walls as in time may linger as a mere fable.”

Theodore Dreiser (from An American Tragedy)