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Author: [[Steve Chandler]] Full Title: Time Warrior Category: #books Publisher’s Preface Are you a “time tracker”? Most of us are—it’s all too easy to have a sense of limitation with respect to time. We hastily divide the day into sixty-minute “slices” and then watch those slices slip away one by one. Then we wonder, “Where did the day go?” Time Warriors arrange the “chaos” around them by slowing down—way, way down—and then letting go of people-pleasing, approval-seeking and every shade of mood-based and future-based thinking. Their battle is for style integrity, for the synchronization of cognitive style with personal purpose. Then, when all is struck down, the Time Warrior is free to choose her own path, taking one step at a time, completing every project and finishing every task one at a time, putting her world under contribution instead of being “put upon” throughout the day. Introduction What is non-linear time management? Non-linear time management is a commitment to action in the present moment. It’s looking at a task and choosing NOW or “not now.” If it’s not now, it’s got to be NEVER, or placed in a time capsule that has a spot on the calendar and therefore out of the mind. The mind must remain clear and empty of all future considerations. In non-linear time management there is no line extending from my mind into the future. No tapeworm of unfinished business coming out of my body. When they open their emails they don’t get to save them for later. They have to deal with them if they open them. Like little attackers in a computer game, there is no longer anywhere to hide. Life becomes a great game and everything is handled right now on the spot. All fear comes from picturing the future. Putting things off increases that fear. Soon we are nothing but heavy minds weighing down on weary brains. Too much future will do that. Chapter 1 Why not do something with your time? We don’t want people to be afraid of us, but neither do we want them to expect too much. All our personalities, therefore, are crafted from the most hair-raising mediocrity. It’s the middle way. Team Mediocre. All the energy it takes to try to hold this mediocre personality—this one consistent person—together could have been used to create something.

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Time Warrior by Steve Chandler presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.

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