Hang on a minute

I’m going to scare you a bit – it’s Easter next week. Well, okay, it is early this year but even so, we’re a quarter of the way through 2013 already. Just three months ago we were all talking about our New Year resolutions, how are yours panning out so far? Is it time that’s holding them up? I don’t have time to go the gym this week, I don’t have time to write today, I’ll have to call that friend tomorrow.

There’s a lot of talk on the internet about time speeding up, I am sure it happens in our house every night when I close my eyes and the clock ticks off hours at the speed of minutes . . . Maybe it’s because there are so many things to occupy us now that it feels like there’s less to go round. If you ask people how they are, it seems the first thing everyone says is ‘busy’!

One of my writing friends celebrated a milestone birthday this week, hitting the big 30. I remember my own 30^th as being the start of my first life falling apart, not something to celebrate at the time although now I do. But thinking back to that time, I can’t believe how long ago it feels and how fast I seem to have got from that point to today.

So if we have more than ever before to do, and less time to do it in, well, maths isn’t my strong point but something doesn’t add up somewhere. But it seems defeating the time monster can be as simple as deciding today you will do that one thing you've been meaning to for just five minutes.

Baby steps are the way I’m trying to beat it while I’m fighting it to get my edits done. As many minutes as I can snatch here and there every day, 20 minutes before work, 30 during lunch, some while I juggle cooking. Yesterday I reached half way through (pause for celebration, cup of tea and dark chocolate, bubbles come when I reach ‘the end’).

‘A year from now you will wish you had started.’ Karen Lamb says and in 365 days, think what you could have achieved.