The deception of time: shifting perspective to embrace success

I’ve always had an issue: my perpetual rush.

Throughout my life, I’ve pursued speed relentlessly, in both personal and professional realms.

Quick decision-making, swift purchases of goods or services, and rapid morning routines. Speed was paramount, at all costs.

However, something changed, perhaps due to the times I made a correct decision, altered my course at the first negative sign, and later discovered I was right from the beginning.

Or maybe it was turning 40 and recognizing that rushing through life propels you just as swiftly to its final destination. But who wants to quickly reach the endpoint of this beautiful journey called life?

Learning from mistakes and shifting perspective

I had signs that made me reflect, like the moment I expressed my dissatisfaction to my mental coach about not immediately ending a working relationship with a manager. Right from the start, I understood that this person lacked ideas, values, and visions consistent with mine (and therefore with those of my company); however, I waited beyond the 4-month trial period and terminated the relationship after a lengthy 14 months.

I always viewed this experience as a clear mistake until my mental coach concluded one of our sessions with a question. “What if this episode is an expression of your need to extend timelines, of the pact you made with yourself to learn to wait?“

I believe it went exactly like that, and I experience it daily in other situations.

Sometimes I wake up later than usual, something I wasn’t used to before because it makes me feel behind in daily commitments.

One day, it was 8:00, and while shaving, I practiced my English by listening to the BBC on the radio until the English journalist started with a “Good Morning, it’s 7:00 o’clock.”

That moment was revelatory. According to my usual schedule, I was late, but had I been in London or any other city I frequently visit, I wouldn’t be. In fact, I’d be on time. 

This realization illuminated a shift in perspective, one I believe will significantly shape my future, both personally and professionally.

Time is a convention

Time does not exist in nature; a tree doesn’t know what time it is, a cat responds to physiological needs but doesn’t know what time it is.

We, supposedly more intelligent humans (really?), ruin our lives with time and, above all, with the idea of the scarcity of time, leading us to live everything in haste, to accelerate any process since by the definition of time, there’s little of it.

Be careful; you’re already 40, and you must have a child. But who says it’s too late? Or that it’s a must-do?

In reality, we have as much time as we want if we aim to value it, to live it instead of waiting for it to pass. The key is to tune into our own frequency, rather than existing on others’.

Lately, on my Instagram feed, I read a phrase that moved me: everyone wants to extend time, but we should learn to widen it.

Moreover, recent studies in quantum physics quite clearly demonstrate the existence of multiple spatial and temporal dimensions, clearly showing that what we know about the concepts of space and time is arbitrary and limiting.

I believe that the relationship with time is one of the keys to the success of a Sports Trader and that learning to live on one’s personal frequency is fundamental to one’s success.

It’s all a matter of time, but individual time because short term and long term are arbitrary concepts if detached from the flow of one’s energy.

Eventually, it becomes easier to make decisions, easier to wait for the right opportunity, and it’s easier to have a future-oriented vision, with the awareness that we have time, always and anyway.