Sales Letter to Myself #10: Time Is The Enemy Of Focus

original: Facebook post written on November 5, 2021: https://www.facebook.com/mike.ying.personal/posts/pfbid02KRJx5sX1UDR9UJL89svvJQkZcYSQGdC8EHH7vgBsq5PEEcvWuDu3gVViH4kkneiel

Time Is The Enemy Of Focus

What time is it?

You are so relieved when you know the time.

You are even proud of your biological clock.

But this is so useless in front of what matters.

Time is an illusion.

Time doesn't exist.

Time is a concept that Men created.

We constantly create time by using this concept.

But there is only Now.

The past, the future, the present, all illusions.

It's laughable to spend time in the future and the past so much.

It's laughable to be "waiting".

What are you even waiting for?

There is a future event happening in the future. Will you waste your time wishing that the event happens now?

Well, that distracts you and makes you lose focus.

Waiting is useless.

Boredom is also useless.

Why are you bored?

Because you wish something else than your current reality happens now.

You can't accept the Now.

So you can't be present, you can't focus, you can't be in the flow.

Having too much time is the enemy. It creates boredom.

Having too little time is the enemy. It creates urgency, makes you hurry, makes you stressed, and then you make mistakes because you can't focus.

Alright, some people will argue that deadlines and urgency are great and even necessary.

But that's off-topic.

Feeling that you have too much time or too little time is definitely not good.

It makes you feel that your present reality is wrong.

While you know that Now is exactly how it's meant to be.

The laws of the universe, God's will, destiny.

Everything now is already how it should be.

Accepting it is the only smart decision.

Refusing the Now is foolish.

Having just enough time is also the enemy.

Just thinking about the concept of time makes you lose focus.

It is well-researched that when you are in the zone, in the flow, the concept of time disappears.

You experience a kind of "slowing down" or "speeding up".

Time disappears.

When your concept of time reappears, you either feel that it went by fast or that it went by slowly.

When you are deeply present, time doesn't exist.

When you are focused, time doesn't exist.

When you work hard, when you study well, when you practice deliberately, when you really have fun, time doesn't exist.

The nonexistence of time is one of the goals to aim for to improve focus.

Grant Cardone says that he doesn't manage time, he creates time.

You don't want to manage your time, thinking about time all the time.

You want to take some time to plan, have a great plan with timelines in it, but once you have the plan, just take focused action without any concept of time.

Time is the enemy of focus.

Time is a distraction.

Stop worrying about time.

Your attention and focus is worth more.

Time is a metric.

Focus and attention are the KPI's.

Plan well with timelines then focus without time.

Make time disappear.

Focus.

Now.