‘Time paces forward with exquisite regularity, at precisely the same velocity in every corner of space.  Time is an infinite ruler.  Time is absolute.’*

The business news for today included the story of SwiftKey joining Microsoft.  SwiftKey’s mission is to ‘enhance interaction between people and technology,’  and claims to have saved its users 10 trillion keystrokes, or 100,000 years of typing time.**

My question was: how were those 100,00 years of saved typing time used?

Have you ever been told: “You don’t know how to use your time well!”?

Time can come to us with a voice of judgement: “What do you think you’re doing?  You haven’t got time for this.”

Time can also come with a voice of openness: “This is your time to explore, to ask, to be.”

If I’m to move towards what Alex McManus calls the open possibilities of tomorrow’^ then I need to find some time now to begin.  Then we hear the voice of judgement: “You haven’t got time for this” – time to fail, learn, and try again. But finding the time now can be a better use of time than waiting for the right time and the right thing which we think will not fail.

‘You can avoid jeopardising your company’s future by slowing down and considering all the relevant factors before making a decision.’^^

This is also true for the company of one – my life or yours.

I guess I’m finding myself playing with time.  I make time for my journalling so that I can lose track of time in ideas, whilst also having a time-piece close by to make sure I “have the time” to do everything I need to.  It’s not perfect or complete, but I keep exploring.

One thing I know, now is the time.

“When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”*^

(*From Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams.)
(**From SwiftKey’s Blog.)
(^From Alex McManus’s Makers of Fire.)
(^^From Jim Clifton and Saengeeta Bharadwaj Badal’s Entrepreneurial StrengthsFinder.)
(*^A Buddhist saying, quoted in Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project.)