Develop a Mindset to Know that You Have Enough Time
Hey there, thank you for joining me on the Mindset for Life Podcast. I'm very, very excited about this particular episode, because time management is something that comes up a lot. Most people that I talk to, whether at work or when I'm coaching, or in my family life, talk about time.

Time comes up over and over. If time were a person, its ears would be burning all day long, seriously, because we're just always talking about it. So today, we're going to talk about a mindset to know that you have enough time. I was really intrigued by this. In a book I read by Gay Hendricks, who wrote “The Big Leap,” if you haven't read this book, I highly recommend it, it's about the upper limit problem.

Stretching our comfort zone, and our ability to achieve more success, feel more love, and feel more positive emotions in our life. Now we fight this.

Why? Well, there are a lot of reasons why, that I'm not going to get into today. And I encourage you to listen to some of my other episodes of this podcast. Today, we're going to focus on how you can develop a mindset to know that you have enough time, you really do.

And in my experience, it's all about your mindset. Once you have a mindset to believe that you're capable of something, that it's open to you, you can achieve anything, literally, that you put your mind to. You can really set the goals that you want to, and you can move forward. So today, we're going to talk about the feelings that we have about time. I'm going to share a lot of feelings that I have had about time in the past, and feelings that you might have about time.

I'm going to challenge each one of these thoughts and going to encourage you to consider your own thoughts and feelings about time.
Why do we think we don’t have enough time?
Thoughts are ideas that we have. Feelings are emotions. So when I say we have feelings around time, I'm really talking about like, angst, anxiety, worry, regret, fear. A lot of those things, right? One of the biggest thoughts that we have around time is that we just don't have enough of it.

Whenever you think about not having enough of something, what does that do for you?

For me, when I think about not having enough, it starts me down the path of worry. Now, I'm not super familiar with the emotion of worry. My brain worries, I have a lot of thoughts around scarcity and worry, but I don't really notice the feeling of worry.

Worry, feels kind of tight in the shoulders. It feels tight in my neck. It feels like I'm hunched over a lot, I really have to think about what that feels like. What does worry feel like to you?

Do you like that? Well, when you're worried that you don't have enough time, that it's limited, that it's finite, you're probably thinking some of the thoughts that I have thought, and here they are.

I have thought, “There are only 24 hours in this day, and only seven days a week. And no matter how carefully I plan, I just might not be able to get everything done. I need to plan wisely, or maximize the time.”

I want to challenge this today, so I ask you, is it really true?

Is it really true that time is limited, that It's finite?

In his book, “The Big Leap,” Gay Hendricks talks about playing with time. Stretching time. Always having enough time. Have you ever met anyone like this, that seems to get a lot of things done that they care about? And you wonder, where did they find the time for all of that?

They teach a college class.

They teach coaching in the evenings.

They go off and create a lot of art.

They have time to go camping, go fix up their cabin.

They're doing all of this in a state of ease and flow and feeling like it's all working together for them.

To me, it sounds like a very busy schedule. I don't know how they're fitting it all in, because I'm thinking time is finite, it's limited. There are only 24 hours in a day, seven days a week.