As a life coach I learn so much from my clients, which is one of the reasons why I love what I do and never feel like it is work. I had such a great session today, which my client has given permission for me to share.
When she started life coaching she wanted to have everything happen at once – she felt that it was all taking too long and she wanted it all now. Today she told me that she realised that her greatest learning during the coaching journey has been Acceptance – acceptance that time cannot be fast-forwarded, that the clock only ticks as fast as it is meant to. As she held her little daughters feet in her hands she realised how much they had already grown and it made her realise how quickly time does actually move but if we wish it away we don’t notice the subtle changes which we can never get back. I thought it was something for us all to remember that we need to learn to live in the moment and realise that the future will only happen as fast as it is meant to and in the meantime the lesson is to notice the immediate moment of which we will never get back.
Children are our greatest markers of time as they grow so quickly – we do too but we don’t realise it as we are rushing around so much worrying about what we should be doing or agonising over what we didn’t do. Just stop, take a deep breath and accept that life moves at the pace it is meant to. If we don’t we will always be in a constant state of exhaustion and frustration.
I read a saying this morning: ” Sculpture your heart upon the sands of time for you travel this way but once.” Quite powerful. Every little footprint on the sand goes forward, we decide how fast is should go. I look at my footprint a few times before moving on to the next…… My little toes, my heel, deep print, lines on the print, etc. It’s the small things in life that makes us treasure time. To be able to say at the end of the day, what you really did today without thinking……. I told my kids this morning in the car that I have 4 rooms in my heart, one for my hubbie, one for my daughter, one for my son and one for my doggies and that they must remember that it is everlasting no matter how fast time flies!!!