Back Time Your Life

Back timing can add life to your life. Find out how in this mini podcast.

Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

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"The Grasshopper" is the part of you that whispers pearls of wisdom that  seem to pop into your mind from out of the blue. John's essays and blog posts are his interpretations of these "Nips of Nectar." Others have labeled his writings as timeless wisdom. 

Most of the John's writings revolve around self improvement and self help. They address topics like:

• Mindfulness
• Peace of mind
• Creativity
• How to stay in the present moment
• Spirituality
• Behavior improvement

And stories that transform you to a wider sense of awareness that presents more options. And isn't that what we all want, more options? 

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Transcript

Back Time Your Life

I realized recently that getting dinner on the table is all about back-timing. Funny thing is, it’s a skill I learned in broadcasting, not in a cooking class.

You figure out what takes the longest, start that first, and work your way down. For example, if the chicken takes 33 minutes and the string beans take 17, you start the chicken, wait for the timer to hit 17, then fire up the beans. Everything finishes together. Simple.

What wasn’t so simple? Back-timing my life. Maybe you missed that class too.

We all have a rough idea of how long we’ll live. If you don’t, check with an actuary. Sure, you could trip over a Dixie Cup lid tomorrow or make it to 100, but you have a ballpark estimate. Subtract your current age from that number and you’ve back-timed your life.

That part’s easy. The real question is: How do you want to spend the time you have left?

A lot of people go straight to the bucket list — “things I want to do before I die.” Nothing wrong with that, but the focus on things can distract us from what we actually want: to feel alive in the moments we already have.

If you need something outside yourself to feel alive, you’re chasing a moving target. Image a tree that needs to go to the Rainforest Café every Friday just to “feel alive.” If it misses a week, it thinks it’s just dead wood.

Nothing wrong with Friday nights out. But if your aliveness depends on them, you’ve already given it away.

So how do you get it back? Stop the chase. Stop the noise. The aliveness of life is already baked in — you just need enough quiet to notice it.

Because if you’re expecting your bucket list to fill you up, remember this: that bucket has a hole in it.

Take a moment to back-time your life. Not to panic — but to wake up to how alive you can feel right now. Otherwise, you’ll just give your focus to things . . .  until you kick the bucket.

All the best,

John