The Power of Time ⏰
Dear friend,
Please gift me your undivided attention and explore what I learned to start a new decade, or skip reading and use your valuable time elsewhere.
Like the air you breathe in now, time is the most important energy of your life.
Time moves as you read this essay and the minutes you will invest are irreversible.
Having your attention now, I am motivated to challenge you to become a better time player. To start, I will ask you a simple question: how many minutes are in one week?
99% of people don’t know this answer on top of their head. The most valuable treasure we have, and yet, we don’t know how many minutes we are given every single week of our life.
We are ignorant of the good fortune we have. No matter race, age, creed, country, wealth, health, and gender we are all given the same amount of time every week.*
Just in case you didn’t jump into calculus and figured it out, the magic number is 10080 minutes = week.
Being the biggest fan of Heroes of Might and Magic 3, I like the idea of playing “10080 minute week” within turn-based rules.
Heroes 3 is a multiplayer game you play with a chosen hero. Every hero can develop only through facing adversity on the map. The difference between a good and a bad player is how you best use your limited moves and resources.
Life is similar. Now I see the reason why I love this game as it teaches us to understand that our life choices compound to specific results. The seed of a sunflower will always give us a sunflower if properly nourished.
Let me introduce you to the simple rules of 10080 minutes week game:
- A week is the chain of 7 turns (days) and is best used to strategically invest time in a long term direction
- The day is a turn and is used to schedule tasks that support weekly strategies
- Minutes are small moves used to execute tasks or remain consciously idle
10080 minutes are a lot of moves. We will be surprised how much can be done every week when we are aware of this.
Are you ready to play the game with your time?
The New Year is an ideal Kickstarter and I am challenging you this Sunday (Jan 3rd, 2021) at midnight to start using 10080 minutes of your life as consciously possible during the upcoming week. (or any Sunday when you are ready)
Invest your time, attention, and energy deliberately. Be patient. It may take a few Sundays for you to notice a pattern that weeks are coming and going, and all precious minutes passed are irreversible.
After just observing a few 10080 minutes weeks, sooner than later you will start to feel a positive urge to act meaningfully deep inside your gut. Your sense of losing time will feel unbearable. These powerful moments are perfect timing to evoke determination and draft a series of fresh life decisions.
When you enter this state, take your time to write or record thoughts on what you truly wish to be and do in your life. We can pro-act and consciously direct our time as opposed to randomly re-act to inevitable passings of time./
What kind of player do you want to be?
Like in all worthy things in life, practice makes perfect.
Just observing that every Sunday at midnight starts a new 10080 minutes week is enough for novice players to get an urge to prepare turns and moves for the upcoming week.
Great players use their minutes strategically. They connect turns and moves through multiple weeks and concentrate their time on “why” driven activities and goals.
Master players are meta players who practice conscious seconds and play using intuition and state of flow. Becoming a master player is impossible without a balance between rest and activity, patience and urgency, plan and spontaneity.
A life lived in conscious awareness produces extremely rich seconds. This is meta in which we witness how awareness disrupts the speed of time and slows it down till the present moment.
The chain of present moments is perfect timestamps in developing gratitude, forgiveness, and love disposition and attitude. The more we remember this, the more we will feel it and express it in our life.
In tech jargon our core operating system can have words, thoughts, and deeds of “Thank you”, “I am sorry” and “I love you” hardcoded inside our head and heart.
This condition makes life worth living.
Relax now. Take several deep but slow breaths. Move your mind from the screen and use one full minute to observe your environment.
This minute feels different, yes?
It seems that things slowed down a bit and your mind is more peaceful.
Good…
Momentum is a powerful force because it is cumulative. The more years we lived, the more time we compounded. We share the experience that as we grow older we witness that time passing accelerates. Another urgent signal to patiently learn the art of conscious use of time.
I wish you all the lasting upgrade of your paradigm, attitude, and relationship with time in 2021!
What is your next move?
Respectfully,
Josip Bujas (holosplay)
P.s. Spend your minutes wisely!
*All of us will eventually experience the last week, day, minute, and breath of our life.
Article originally appeared in R.N.G. https://discord.gg/xQjbCsjy6d
