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I have just got back from 10 days holiday. This morning I was back in to my old routine and I noticed nothing had changed. It was as if time stood still while I was away.

On my morning run I go past about 5 building sites. I couldn’t tell if anything has changed on any site. The same people were out early running, riding and walking the dog. At the coffee shop, the same people were there. They said high, but I don’t think they even noticed that I had been away.

I felt like I had been in a time warp. Like time stood still while I was away and I arrived back about one minute after I left.

It made me stop and think. Each day I help people feel like they have more time. My perception this morning was that time had stood still, yet at the very same moment all many of my clients (and thousands of other people) felt like they had no time at all.

This led me to ask myself about how we perceive time. How a minute can seem like such a long time in one situation and such a short time in another.

We have all experienced it

• how the watched kettle never boils
• how long the lights take to change to green when we are late
• how the hours seem to be only minutes on THE day of your project deadline

In my workshops on communicating more effectively I use an exercise where people have to talk for one minute and the person listening ignores and/or distracts them. The participants tell me this minute takes “forever”.

What if everything to do with time is significantly influenced by perception!

In the simplest terms this means that if you want more time you create a mindset that allows a perception of more time or time moving slowly and you get it! Now I didn’t say it was easy. I do though, think it is possible.

You don’t have to manage time, find time or make time. Just choose to focus on cues that make time appear as you want it to.

Like today for me. I felt as I had a holiday that lasted longer than 10days, yet when I got back everything fell in to place like I hadn’t been away -- as if I had travelled back in time, or I was in a time warp, where time stood still until I got back to my normal routine. My busy clients tell me my next experience could be time travelling, like fast forward on the DVD player, and my holiday will seem like it was a long time ago!!

Could it be that your perception of having so much to do and being busy IS what makes you feel like you don’t have enough time!