Some of us feel like we never have enough time. Others seem, magically, to be able to stretch or even manufacture time to meet all their commitments gracefully. If we’re in the former category suggesting that the availability or elasticity of time is a mind-set might just create a point of tension.
Yet our attitude, how we think about things, creates our reality. So, we can choose to see our time as a resource over which we have control or we can give our control to time.
Whichever camp we’re in, and whatever choice we make about our relationship with time as leaders we must consider how this impacts others. The sense of being chased by time, of not having enough will tend to shorten our interactions with others and pepper those interactions with an impatient energy.
Our delegation is likely to be more instructional than collaborative and empowering of others. and it may be that we haven’t taken the time to consider whether we’re delegating the right work to the right person to help them grow or giving enough input to help them succeed.
When a less than perfect response (the work) comes back to bite us we probably think we don’t have time to reflect and consider why this happened.
And yet couldn’t it all be so different if we decided to change our relationship with our time – to see it as a resource for us and to give to others? Sure it might be painful to take some time to reflect on it but in this pause we might just start to see possibility.