Time is a gift; from God if you are a believer. We hear often people say they have no time for this or that. But we do have time, and plenty. What we don't have is a healthy relation or understanding with it. Wasting or losing time is a great sin of the 21st century.
Paradoxically, we put ourselves in the race and we waste the time. What we need to do is to treat time as air that surrounds us, it exists without us being obsessed with it. There is space even in the busy city of today, one just needs to rehabilitate our thoughts and actions, to plan and practice, not to treat your life like a race against time, and recuperate the pleasure of living. Slowness is more a state of mind.
How to apply this philosophy in work for instance? It's an art of changing paces. There are moments or areas that require more longitude better to produce bigger and better results. Some more Vanguardia companies have realized, and recognised, that employees yield more of themselves if they are given time and possibilities to manage and be their own boss in their given field of work or projects, instead of having to consult and wait for permission on every single step to carry out the work in hand. The Japanese firms are the first ones to realize and practice this, and find that the expected results come up in half the time with only 60% of the estimated man power and effort.
Parents and couple too often neglect what's more important for their family, alleging that they want to but no time to be with them. The key is to set priorities, cut back the list of compromises and concentrate on only the most important. In a family, creating moments to be together is almost sacred.
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