Milestone #7: The kindness to surrender 🤍

When time constraints go out the window.

If you’re new to a paid subscription, you might like to know: Milestones in my monthly column where I am tracking progress on my focus for the year, which is “time constraints.” Have a gander at Milestone #1 to get your bearings.

Dear Ones —

As I’ve mentioned before, in Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman writes about the illusion of time management — that, for the most part, there is little we can do to control our time. The whole process requires us to embrace our limits. And, let me tell you, I had to learn this in a whole new way this past month.

Limits can be imposed by the 24 hours we live by, but it can also be imposed by the curveballs that come flying our way. This past month I’ve experienced a series of events that have stretched me in all directions — emotionally, to be sure, but also physically as I hopped my way through family visits in three Canadian provinces. (I wrote about it recently in a piece titled Digging deep and leaning in.) When I tell some of the stories, I’ve…