TiME

The core of the Cathedral of Seville
was built over more than 100 years.

The entire complex evolved over 7 centuries.
It’s a monument that leaves us in awe,
because of its size, its majesty, and its every detail.

Who among us would start working on something
that may not be finished before we pass away?

Time is a funny thing.
Today, we can build faster than ever before.
We have evolved,
in organisation, in technology, in speed.

And yet, things often feel more fragile.
Less precise.
Less powerful.
Somehow, less impressive.

What does it take to truly impress a human being today?
AI, perhaps, has the potential.
It helps us move faster still,
freeing us from repetitive, administrative tasks
so that we can focus on what really matters.

But do we actually have more time?
If we have all these tools to simplify life,
why does it feel as though we have less of it?

One of the issues is, that we consider time to be linear.
But it’s not.
Lives are turned upside down in an instant.
We let ourselves be tricked by the if…then.. construct.
We pretend to know how quickly the tree grows.
And if it doesn’t grow “in time,”
we pull it out.

We assume we can predict what will happen
and how to make it happen.
But a true, real perspective on time
leaves us in wonder.
It humbles us.
Sometimes, it even excites us.

We keep trying to control time,
and it’s not working very well for us.
Because opportunities happen in moments,
and others unfold over years.

We let others dictate the length of our art.
Because that is “what works.”
Because we let it work.

But what if we read and watch less,
and build more on less?

Trying to compress development,
in a 3 point strategy
doesn’t leave us in awe
because the creative process is missing.
It’s like trying to capture the majesty of Seville’s Cathedral in one picture.
It’s simply not possible.

How majestic, how successful is your life if you consider it across its whole span, and not just in a moment of struggle or a single bad day?

What if you changed the spectrum of one month to the spectrum of five years?

A former participant of the mentoring space HORIZON began with one month,
then added three more,
then another three,
with pauses in between.
In the end, we travelled together for nearly a year.

Another participant joined the mentoring session BLUE OCEAN,
and within sixty minutes,
we laid the foundation, the seed,
to tackle the challenge most present,
in that moment.

There isn’t one single way to move with time.
But one thing is certain:
Our perspective on time
has the power to transform our lives,
and the world around us.

Send me a message & make peace with time ☕

MARINA&TEAM