Find Time to Be Agile and Embrace Daily Changes

The Time Finder with Paula Eder

The way you use your time is the way you live your life.

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Posted on June 9, 2009, under Transitions and Time.

Finding time and knowing when to stick to priorities and when to hold them loosely, in the midst of daily flux can be a challenge.

Last night the clouds rolled in, here in New Hampshire. This morning the skies are gray and a light rain is falling intermittently. What a change from the brilliant sun, blue sky, and clear air that we had yesterday! As a gardener, I welcome this change — but if I were planning an end-of-the-year picnic for my sixth grade class, I wouldn’t be so happy.

Change is one of the few things that we can count on in life. And yet change, ironically, is something that we perpetually struggle to make our peace with. It represents a shift from whatever we had in mind, or whatever state we had become used to.

While planning is important if you want to use your time well and wisely, agility is also a key factor in finding time. Agility enables you to adapt your plans to the changing terrain. Indeed, beyond adapting, agility enables you to see the opportunities that come as the environment is altered or landscape shifts.

Change always comes bearing gifts. ~Price Pritchett

An agile mindset allows you to embrace the challenges that change can present. Like an athlete or a dancer, accessing your strength and creativity enables you to respond to change as something you welcome and work with – rather than as an alien, invasive force you must work against.

This strength-based and open-hearted approach to change, in turn, lets you see possibilities that you are blind to if you approach change from a victim stance.

Is change something that you let yourself embrace and move toward with agility and grace? How does this work for you? I’d love to hear!

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Let’s explore time together …