Attaining Good Timing

The Emperor's Lounge
#1

Effing. Timing.

A lot of us get messed up around timing.

When is the right time to bring in this action? Or this resource? Or this strategy?

Go Hard. 24 hours a day. Non-stop. Doing whatever is most difficult.

That’s good for cheerleading.

But, no.

Clearly that’s not working smart.

A wise eye notes the conditions and optimizes them.

Part of learning timing is learning yourself.

What kinds of time-frame strategies will work best for me?

All of these questions will be stimulated and developed by running Self-Awareness titles: Genesis. Revelation of Mind.

But it seems worth creating a topic.

So, topic created.

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#2

I legitimately have no concept of time. It’s something I struggle with. The difference between 30 minutes vs 1 hr is lost on me, in my head I just try to do stuff in the span of time I’m given. Sometimes I lose track of time. I’ve gone marathon music making sessions where I start in the late morning and then realize 7 hrs blew by.

I just chaotically try to do a bit every day to further my growth and then somehow it does come together. There’s a system at work, but I couldn’t really explain it.

This doesn’t answer your post lol. I’m pretty lost when it comes to attaining good timing. Also interested to hear more from others.

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#3

I find that creating very very minimal schedules and adding to them slowly over time is the best most sustainable strategy for me.

For example, I recently “restarted” my calendar as my life did a complete 180 degree turn.

I started out with a very simple first step of the calendar. Set out to do 10-20 minutes of light cardio (mini-trampoline, for me) outdoors to get some sunshine & exercise in before starting work. Meaning I needed to do it at 830 to start work (from home) at 9.

That was all I had on the calendar for a while to create consistency, then, when I realized that around 1230pm I get drained and need a bit of a break, so I scheduled in 30 minutes to do another set of movement and then lunch.

That went well for a while.

Eventually I found that I consistently, every day, wasn’t making enough time for follow up (sales role) so I added time on to the calendar for nothing but that.

And on it went! That’s the strategy

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#4

All I have to contribute is parkisons law.
Work will expand to fill the alloted time for its completion.
If you give yourself 1h for a task you might make it in time. If you give yourself only 20 minutes, you set a different focus and reach a result in 20 minutes. The difference might be huge or not noticeable at all. If you could make it in 20 minutes but give yourself 1h you will fill 40 minutes with unnecessary thinking or YouTube etc.
Apply the pareto priciple.

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#5

Trust the intuitive nudges you get. Never static always dynamic

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#6

I agree. My wise eye isn’t a problem, it’s my lazy eye… :wink: lol

Kidding aside…

This has been key for me.

Life has a rhythm to it. If you don’t change how you’re playing your part as the rhythm changes, you end up dissonant with it. And those changes scale from the micro to the macro. From in-the-moment improvisations to setting up your trust to pass on.

The “lazy eye” I joked about has actually shown me it has its own kind of wisdom: to take a look at those things in my life that don’t inspire me to action and discern whether I’m feeling a weak response to responsibility (or discipline, etc), or if the rhythm has shifted and something needs to change (like delegating it away, taking a break from it, optimizing it, etc).

Still working this one out, but the last couple of days I’ve started to use my whiteboard to “gamify” my days – making lists with estimated time-to-completion for each task, and seeing how that compares to actual times and results – and I think it has a lot to do with running Nouveau RICH…might be the scripting around the data-driven, iterative process.

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