Tick tock, tick tock, time is running on our forever clock! Or on the fascinatingly fabulous world clocks, such as this Astronomical Clock in Prague.
Have you ever thought about why time in our society is so constricted, instead of the rise and fall of our golden heart-warming sun? In ancient times, people from Egypt and Babylon were known for the arguably original 24 hour sun dial and construct of time in which now forms part of our 24 hour time and 12 month calendar year (Brittanica AI, 2026) . It is also cited that the Sumerian people were known use their hands to tell the time (Brittanica AI, 2026).
The concept of time was more formally introduced upon the building of Canadian railways and formally introduced first into the US navy in 1920, with some militias implanting the use of time as we know it today within the first World War (Brittanica AI, 2026).
For a society that is guided by such a strict regime of time, it is no wonder we lack the ability to tender to what one most wants needs or desires. Our human condition requires connection for survival. It is unfortunate; to say the least, we live in a society that now measures success by how hard we work, where we live and how many followers we have. Time is being stolen away from what is truly important to our very essence of humanity.
Time is a precious commodity that is in high demand, a rare diamond in which some people view that only the elite can carve out real time for connection with oneself, family and community.
So, what can one do, to make the most of their time? Especially those of us with little ones at home or big family or work commitments? You could research the concept which will lead you to time management matrix by Eisenhower and others and read Daniel Pink’s amazing work on how much time we really have in different aspects of our lives and why it’s integral to enhance our internal motivation factors to take the best use of it, which would ultimately leave us with less time in the first instance. Or you could use what I like to call your “10 minutes here and 5 minutes there” to channel the idea of focusing on one priority/main priorities and eliminate those tasks that do not help you achieve your priorities in your spare time, which I like to think is my attempt to channel the concepts originally created by Michael Focault in geopolitics and the 80/20 Pareto Principle(there larger array of literature on this concept I will not go into).
In fact, I came up with the idea for this very article in my “10 minutes here, 5 minutes there” just yesterday, which commenced with my drafting for the below poem:
A moment in time, means so much
Inspiration ignited, I am in luck!
I yearn to fuel the fire in me
But then a little hand, a soft plea
Pulls me back from my writing dream
My heart breaks in two, then three
A mum, a writer, a part-time job
Never quite able to balance the lot
So, I find my time
10 minutes here, 5 minutes there
I inhale my muse, my breath of fresh air
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