I woke up yesterday at 4:18. On a normal weekday, my alarm chimes at 4:39 and my feet hit the shower by 4:41. If I mange to sleep to 6:30 on a weekend, that qualifies as sleeping in. This weekend was, depending on your outlook, the dreaded or anticipated ‘fall back’ weekend, where clocks everywhere magically move backwards one hour thereby providing an additional hour of sleep.
Of course, we could get into the discussion of why this is stupid, and how in reality there really is not an extra hour of sleep, and I am sure that conversation would be captivating to all, however, with the change in time I thought we could have some fun and take the time change a level or two deeper and ponder the idea that if, and the key word here is ‘if’, you could turn back time, what thing(s) would you change.
But in the interest of keeping it inline with the time change, if you could turn back the clock one hour what thing would you look to change, or do differently.
What conversation might you have again to create a different outcome?
What decision might be hanging low that could be rethought to achieve different results?
The questions are valid and the ideas almost endless. The ability to go back, in effect have a do over, get to set things right. I can guarantee there is something in everyones life that they wish they could do again if given the chance.
May I throw a wild idea at you?
You can.
And you can start today.
Life, and people, have a funny way of granting a tremendous amount of grace and mercy to folks willing to come back, acknowledge previous outcomes that didn’t go off as desired, and grant them the ability to have a second chance.
In other words, might I suggest that we all have opportunities each and every day, to set the clock back, and gain a second chance to create a better outcome. And here is what I know to be true. When afforded those opportunities, if you truly act in a way that suggests you have learned from past mistakes, the situation and the relationship almost always comes out stronger than it was previous.
I don’t know about you, but to me that seems like a win-win that can be applied to life, more importantly it seems like a lesson that can be applied to my life, and maybe yours?
This week, as your body readjusts to time might I suggest you seek out those opportunities for a do over and actively engage with the person or activity that wasn’t handled to your best last time, and give it another go. I promise you, in those moments of vulnerability those you seek for the do over will not only respect you more, but almost always grant you that which you request.
So there it is, this week seek out some set the clock backwards moments, and allow the time to get straightened out. Your mind and your body will thank you. And look at the bright side, unlike day light savings time, you will not have chase through the house trying to change all the clocks and replace all the smoke detector batteries!
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