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Hi, I'm Sam and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Wednesday morning. So the other day

I listened to one of the most memorable talks I've ever heard by one of my favorite Buddhist

teachers, Gil Fronstel. It was a talk he gave in 1994 and the theme was our relationship

to time. He started naming all the ways we talk about time, how we say we're running out

of time or losing time, killing time, and keeping track of time. And this got me reflecting

on my own relationship to time. Throughout my life I've been what people adorably refer

to as a time optimist. I always think I have more time to get somewhere, finish a conversation,

or even finish writing a podcast episode than I really do. And as you might imagine, I've

had a chronic lateness problem throughout my life. And I used to make excuses for this

habit by looking at conditions that made it hard to be on time. Sometimes I was late

to my next meeting because my previous client had a lot to unpack in our previous session,

and I just let it run longer than it needed to. I had two big learning moments which dramatically

shifted my relationship to time. Someone once told me that by arriving late I was showing

that I believed my time was more important than their time. And at first this brought

up some defensiveness, but then I saw what they meant. I realized that we never know how

pressing someone's day is and how important each minute is in the planning of their day.

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