The Times, They Are A-Changin'...

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late." 

-William Shakespeare

It's day 3 of the work week that has been besieged by the dreaded Daylight Savings Time. Perhaps you've found yourself fallen into one of these little annoyances:

• You forgot to set the coffee maker timer forward, so the coffee brewed an hour early, stopped warming an hour early, and the coffee is cold.
• You spend 15 minutes turning the microwave off and on, trying to figure out how to set the clock. You eventually decide who cares, microwaves don’t need clocks anyhow, only timers.
• You long ago gave up trying to reset the clock in your car and are shocked to see that it has the right time - which goes to show that we don’t need to change the time to be right, at least, half of the time.
• Some folks arrive for work an hour late because they forgot to spring forward. Some folks come two hours late because they thought it is Spring back…Fall forward.   You can tell who they are because they are the grumpiest.

And now for a message from the reality of time.

Maybe we should live by this clock.

On the inside of all this havoc over changing the clock, is the realization of just how tied to the clock our lives can be. We tell ourselves how important 'time management' is to our success - and yet - if there ever was something we kid ourselves about it's that we control how much time we have. We ascribe to the importance of the clock to stay above the fray of disorganization. But knock knock and tick tock: There's only so much time in the hourglasses of our lives, so why waste time fretting about the time change?

Let's find a way to capitalize on this silly concept.

What time it is isn't as vital as what we are investing that hour toward in our days. There are still 24 of these hours in our day, and ours to use the best we are able. Let's stop today, on the 'hump day' of our week, and not continue to say "I've lost an hour."

You can't lose something that wasn't ever really there. Just make what you've got left count and multiply.

Cheers.