Ode To Hours

Time is all we have. In this moment it highlights everything before us in technicolor. Through our relationship to time, we see our emotions arise, we see ourselves emerge into the hours of our new normal. This truth is eternal, but our awareness of it has been heightened, surely at times causing both fear and joy. What stands constant in this truth is that we all have a personal relationship to time and in our hours we can all find inspiration and source our creativity. Through honoring our hours spent we can notice how and when we do our best work, we give ourselves space to notice our own personal process, honor it, speak it, maybe even give it a new testing ground. Outside the confines of office hours or cultural expectations around timeliness, what can you witness? And what can you acknowledge for the betterment of your productivity, creativity, and joy? 

Perhaps allow your childlike wonder to seep into your hours—become curious, witness new ways of thinking. How can this wonder be a pathway to inspired perspectives for creating what you could not have possibly seen before. Let the unknown leave room for what you could not have imagined, invite spontaneity into your moments, hours, days. Conversely, much like children, as we all still are in so many ways, we do well with structure, and even find more freedom through structure, so how are you applying structure right now? And how is your structure allowing space for new freedoms and new vision? How can you play with your time?

Time is a construct, one through which we live and build our lives, one that we have the power to use to our advantage. Consider what your past can teach you about your future, take moments to review the timeline of your life. What insights can it bring you? How can it illuminate a path forward?

Whatever your relationship to time may be, it is not wrong, it is yours. It is your ability to understand it, articulate it, and have it work for you to provide you with the deepest inspirations to create and share your personal brilliance that will make all the difference. Respect your time, your process, your genius—it's all your own, and it’s all you truly ever owned.