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This episode is about how we relate to time. Have we thought about how our earliest conditioning has helped or hindered how we transition with time? Deadlines, synchronizing schedules with others, making appointments, keeping appointments, deciding when our time is wasted or best spent, and more. What were your earliest lessons about time? Who taught you?

Take a day, a week, and pay attention. Pay attention to howyou show up in your life. On an average day,

1. Do you wake up at your alarm or turn over?
2. Do you have slow mornings or does your day begin with a rushed flurry of activity?
3. Do you eat breakfast?
4. Do you have a morning meditation or prayer time?
5. Do you arrive to your work early—whether in a physical location or your home office?
6. What about meetings?
7. Do you take an offsite lunch?
8. Do you work into the evenings on most nights?
9. What about your deliverables? Do you plan your work and work your plan? Or do you work under pressure close to the deadline?
10. Do you volunteer? Serve in a faith community? Take classes for continuing ed, a certification or degree?

Books referenced in this episode are 86400: Manage Your Purpose to Make Every Second of Each Day Count by Lavaille Lavette and Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. Listen to episode 8 in season 1 for a review of Essentialism.