Tag: wasting

• Don’t Put Time First.

  We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. ~George M. Adams

  I love this phrase. How we think we are only wasting time, when what we are doing is wasting ourselves.

  As you look upon the day, we are asked to make choices by what life offers up to us, we can vote yes or no and that will decide how we used up time.

  I now know it is not a waste to sit by the river, to just be with singing birds, to experience the vast array of nature, but for me, it is a waste to be barraged by negative energies.

  I don’t mind messes and a good crisis, but I do mind people unwilling to change or look at things in a new light, and who are just giving commentary from a mud puddle.

  It isn’t a waste of myself to lend a hand while someone is changing direction, but it is to just watch him or her sit.

  I focus less and less on time and more and more on what I am doing, where I am and how I feel.

  I used to race time on my mail route, for we get paid salary, and it seemed like I was beating the system to go fast, yet I missed the ride, while focusing on time.

  Now I experience the route, the people, the animals, the changing landscape, the weather, I am on the route. I am there in each moment and time passes unnoticed and at the same pace.

  It is amazing how your life will change when you don’t put time first.

  April 30, 2011

  choices, life, now, passing, perceptions, self, time, wasting

  ---

• What Isn’t There to See!

  
  To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. 

   ~Ken S. Keyes

   

  We have two eyes and I am thinking we need to use them for two separate things; one to see what we have and the other what is missing.  I also suggest keep one eye working more than the other, perhaps even wear a patch over the one who is a forever counting what is Not here.

   

  Our train of thoughts need to keep the track to the positive eye well used, and abandon the tracks to the one that is forever reporting the doom and gloom, the worrier, the spoil sport, the one that is adding up a long column of negatives, when there is a whole world of good to be calculated.

   

  I know that by switching how I look upon my job makes a difference, if I can see all the positives, the downsides will fade from neglect.

   

  I heard Dr. Maya Angelou say of people who whine, ‘stop you will let them know a Victim is in the area.’

   

  So in the vicinity of your voice how is it being heard?

   

  What are you mentioning most often, the things going right or what is going wrong?

   

  We are either a victim commentator of life or one that sees things as they are and rolls by accepting, being enthusiastic or having enjoyment in what is, as Eckhart Tolle suggests.

   

  If you can accept what is going on, you are no longer a victim.

   

  When you fight it, you become a victim to It, no matter what It is.

   

  It is raining and you want sunshine, the rain will victimize you.

  Just by wanting what is not there, IT takes your power; your eyes are on what isn’t happening.

   

  When you keep your strongest eye on what isn’t happening, you waste what you have in life.

   

  Can you have what you don’t see?

   

  Yet we believe we can have what we don’t see by focusing on what isn’t there.

   

  How backwards this all is…What we can see, we don’t and what we don’t we focus on.

   

  Seeing what isn’t and not seeing what is.

   

  Like a trick mirror, reporting back what isn’t there to see!

   

  October 3, 2010

  accepting, denial, is, life, Maya Angelou, not, seeing, wasting, what

  ---

• What you do in time.

  “Time is the most indefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.”   

      ~Charles Caleb Colton

   

   

  My brother wrote about time, its fleeting quality and the fact that the mind gets caught up in it or rather the mind and time go hand and hand.

   

  What is time?  Can you see it and does your body know what time it is on the clock, or does your body simply feel its way through the day?

   

  We are taught to eat by the hour hands on a clock and go to sleep by time, and not body’s physical feelings.  We expect certain things from children in time with little allowance for individual growth.

   

  Time seems to take priority over individual self.

   

  Time slips away we say or is life slipping away?  Is it that we allow our selves to watch time instead of seeing what we are doing?

   

  The more I am aware of what I am doing, how I am spending my time and with whom, the less time seems to matter.

   

  Maybe it isn’t about time at all but instead about being aware of your feelings at all times.

   

  Feeling your feelings in time.

   

  We somehow feel that by spending time, we are sharing ourselves and many times we are just sharing time.

  Doesn’t that remind you of school, taking up space and time?

   

  Life is so much more than taking up space and time in another’s life.

   

  Yet we some how feel it is okay to waste time, but what you are really doing is wasting your life.

   

  Your life has value minute by minute. 

   

  We add its value, with feeling and action; we add the content to time.

   

  You are what you do in time.

   

  June 16, 2010

  fleeting, life span, now, passing, past, present, sharing, time, truth, value, wasting

  ---