Your Life Is Under Attack Or: How To Stop Giving Away Your Time Like It Is Nothing

Carlo Navarro

Time is relative.  A year for a one-year-old is her entire life.  Asking them to wait a year seems like a lifetime away because it is.  Even when you are ten years old, waiting for the next Birthday is ten percent of the time you have ever known.  This is why the years fly past faster and faster as we get older.  Yet we value time less and less until the very end of life is in sight.

A toddler can barely manage 20 minutes of attention.  It is a really long time for them and they do not want to waste it on this one thing when there are so many other possibilities to explore. When we are adults, at work, we flitter away 20 minutes as if it were nothing.  We do not even give it a second thought. It goes faster for us than a toddler so logically we should look after our 20 minutes slots as if we were guarding our life against an attacker. But for some reason, the faster time seems to fly by, most people value it less.  We have this the wrong way around.  We should be valuing it more and more.  

And of course, your life is being attacked. By Jean who just wants to "pick your brains for half an hour." By Derek who holds the same meeting every week despite not knowing why and having nothing ever come out of it.  By Margaret who never picks up one-to-one with anyone and just invites swathes of people to a half-day workshop without knowing what their jobs are or how they can help (but also copies on everyone's bosses to make her feel important).

Your life is under attack. Your time is under attack.

No one will care when you get to the end of the week, the end of the month or the end of the year and you have not achieved anything because you went to other people's meetings.

Get free. Give the gift of MeeTime.

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