The quality of our lives is closely connected to our understanding of time. If we are not well acquainted with time's dynamic and how it connects to mind and senses, divisions and meanings, meditation and self-actualization, then time runs our lives. To gain access to a deeper understanding of time, it seems we must begin by keeping track of time. Gradually, through careful observation of time, awareness begins to deepen and experience grows richer and more positive. This book offers ways to begin such an exploration by learning how to pay attention to time, to use time well, and to see the connection between the quality of our lives and our understanding of time.
To extract a real profit from time, awareness must deepen into time, contacting and engaging each moment. This moment by moment adventure begins to reveal the inner meaning of love, happiness, and creativity that we are all searching for. As we connect with the virtuous power of time that manifests all features of experience, we recognize that time is our friend, our parent, our destiny. If we do not cooperate with time, then it disappears without so much as a kiss good bye. If we embrace it, time gladly shares its dynamic power and opens its treasury of meaning, enriching our lives beyond all measure.
Tarthang Tulku
Odiyan USA
September 1997
Go to an excerpt from Results in No Time. (formerly titled The Timeless Worker)
Results in No Time:
- Guides you toward mastery and peak performance in all aspects of work, and during any activities.
- Describes our actual experience, how we do things during peak performance--it doesn't just give ideas about what we should do, which are not generally applicable.
- Teaches fundamental keys to mastering deadline pressues, procrastination, planning and time estimation, and time poverty, the feeling of not having enough time.
- Provides examples of how we actually create our sense of time passing.
- Describes how peak performance includes a sense of timelessless within activities of widely varying speeds.
- Clarifies the difference between clock time and our sense of time passing.
- Shows how we can speed up the practical activities of our lives and accomplish more while diminishing the feeling that we don't have enough time.
- Has numerous Time Out! exercises and guidelines that foster the reader's exploration of peak work experience.
- Summarizes in a readable format the research on peak experiences.
- Serves as a meeting ground for personal fulfillment and corporate results, breaking through employee distrust of management's motives.
- Identifies the best focal point for driving overall organizational progress.
- Provides a cross-cultural, deeply shared vision needed as the foundation of optimal learning organizations.
- Encompasses any particular organizational or individual models, processes, structures, styles, or habits, because the long-range vision presented is completely general.
- Identifies deep-level valued qualities of experience that provide self-sustaining, self-actualizing motivation--not requiring management to motivate employees. Because the qualities are inherent, shared aspects of human being, "managing by values" is possible without efforts to get employee buy-in.
On those occasions when you did your best work, were you aware of time passing? Most people say no. Do you agree?
During peak work performance did you feel separate from your work--or merged with your actions? Most people say they felt merged with the work. But what was it like for you?
During optimal work was the work naturally fulfilling? Most people say yes. What did you find?
Can such qualities of experience--timelessness, merging, fulfillment--serve as a guide to optimizing performance in the workplace? Yes, I think so! But if you review the literature on productivity and quality, you'll probably find that our experience is what is almost universally ignored. The emphasis in productivity improvement is on what we do--'best' processes or techniques--or on corporate styles and structures. But none of these naturally inspire us, give us moment-to-moment feedback on how we're working, or are applicable to every work situation.
We need a vision of how we do things during peak performance--how optimal work is experienced--not just specific ideas about what to do. Attending to the qualities of experience is the key to simultaneously improving productivity, quality, and well-being.
We also need a vision of work that doesn't perpetuate the typical focus on productivity and profit, but serves as a meeting ground for personal fulfillment and corporate results and guides us toward mastery and peak performance in all aspects of work.
Results in No Time introduces a powerful, long-range vision that naturally guides us toward peak performance during any kind of work--not by motivational or manipulative techniques, nor by getting us to agree with organizational goals or values, but by helping us simply and directly explore the feeling of time passing and valued qualities of our experience such as timelessness.
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