Jun 9-11, 2006
Never before in the history of the world have we had so much to do, yet every day still has only 24 hours. Are you living your life as you wish? Is it hard to find the time for the important things? Are you overly committed? Overwhelmed? Conventional time management tips often feel like just more items on an already overloaded list. Instead, let creativity foster freedom and satisfaction in your life. Let the awareness of time become your spiritual practice.
Attention, Boundaries, and Choices are the ABCs of finding time are three fundamental areas to develop.
• Attention skills foster attention that’s flexible or focused as needed; you stay with important tasks rather than get distracted by unimportant ones.
• Boundary skills keep you well-protected from unreasonable expectations yet connected to reasonable ones; you can replenish rather than exhaust yourself so you can meet challenges with your full resources.
• Choice skills help you serve your truest self and the greater good; you do what you do best rather than worry about everything you might possibly do.
Exercises on your own and in small and large groups will give you practice in using the moments of your life – both the “good” and the “bad”– as the basic material from which to create a satisfying life. Through writing, role-play, and ritual, you’ll learn how to infuse day-to-day experience with meaning and beauty. You’ll find creative responses and insightful lessons in life’s challenges. You’ll learn how to replenish your resources regularly. and how to make the moment-to-moment choices that keep you balanced and energized. Finding time can change you; it can change the world!
Pamela Kristan, author of The Spirit of Getting Organized: 12 Skills to Find Meaning and Power in Your Stuff, teaches and consults in spiritually oriented time and stuff management systems. In her enthusiastic, professional, interactive, and down-to-earth style, she’s been offering retreats in personal organization since 1985. As both a classical musician and an administrator, she sees many sides of the organizational question, having made a living at both the piano and the computer keyboards. She moderated speak-outs for the first two National Take Back Your Time Days, and her experience with administrative details, the artistic life, and the natural world give her a unique position to bridge the creative and the practical.