I was thinking about time, how little time most of us seem to have. Makes it seem impossible to add anything new into our already crowded lives. Wow, if someone invented a time machine – not a gizmo to travel back and forth through the centuries but a way to make more time – they’d get rich in a hurry.

Well, that’s actually another way to describe the C.H.I. Practice, as that kind of time machine. Most of us waste a lot of time being inefficient and focusing on the wrong things. If we can learn new habits, voila, more time.

For instance, arguments. You may have had a few yourself. What’s the point? Proving who’s right, right? What a waste of time. The C.H.I. approach is to feel what you’re feeling and choose what else you want.

It matters less who is right as who can get back to feeling what they want to be feeling quicker. Without denial.

Time fills up with what we put into it. Remember feeling jealous of someone? How many moments, minutes or hours (yikes, even years) did you waste on that? So what? He or she achieved something that you didn’t. What’s the big deal with that?

Here’s the really big deal. You’re dying. Right now you, me, everyone, is edging inevitably closer to the edge of our lives. That abyss is yawning open… coming into visibility for some of us. So, we have a limited amount of time to live… to figure out why we’re here and live the life we want to.

I’m thinking about creating a new kind of watch that has Next at every point on the dial. Cause a lot of smart time management is shifting faster. What’s next?

Death comes soon enough and it starts casting its shadow in advance. As far as I’ve learned, the only antidote to numbing depression about that is to choose to live fully now, in every moment that I’ve got.

I love the C.H.I. tools for that, because the focus is always on what I want and what I feel. Right now.