There’s always time enough
Posted on March 17, 2009 by Tom
Funny enough, time is something we feel we always have too little of, but it will always be there. We’re always stressed for time, always looking to do more in the same amount of time, always looking to work faster, better, harder,…
But the truth is that we have to take all the time we need. What’s the use of deadlines when you have to wait for that spark of creativity to come? You can’t force creativity, you can’t make it happen. It has to come to you, you have to be susceptible to it and for that you have to take all the time you need.
Ofcourse it works better when you’re pushing to meet a deadline. It just means you pay more attention to the project and you let yourself be influenced by everything that can ignite that spark of creativity. It means getting absorbed by a problem, desperate to find a solution. And it can turn two ways… either you’re completely stressed out, burned out and can’t see a way out. OR you find that solution in whatever small corner it maybe hiding. Unfortunately, the first is what happens a lot, and it has probably a lot to do with thinking we don’t have time enough, giving more attention to a ticking clock than to that blank page before you.
Ofcourse you can’t afford to ‘waste’ a the time you have, but you can use all the time you need. Finding the balance between using the time you need, focussing all your attention to your problem and trying to forget that upcoming deadline, it might alleviate some of the stress and give you more time to effectively meet that deadline.
