🔗 The Ancient Art of Recombobulation: Manage Your Outward Time by Managing Your Inner Life — Anna Havron

We do not usually turn to spiritual traditions for time management principles, but we ought to.

If you are waiting for the world to straighten itself out before you can allow yourself to have a sense of inner peace, the world has already won. But ask anyone who deals with crises and emergencies on a professional basis: you are, in fact, MORE effective at addressing crises when you learn how to keep yourself calmer in the midst of it.

In this series of posts, I’m going to share some teachings from spiritual communities that specifically address how to manage your time and your attention.

Your inner state matters when it comes to managing your time. So do your priorities when it comes to what kind of life you want to have, or what kind of person you want to be in this world. This is what spiritual principles of time management address.

It is not at all new for our species to deal with the consciousness of time passing without our control; and with the frequent disconnect between what we would like to happen, and what we are facing in reality, in the present moment.