There are two feet of snow blocking your car from the road. This is a problem.
Except it’s not a problem if you don’t need to leave the house for a few days—the snow will melt on its own.
And it’s not a problem if you had decided to move to the island of Saba a few years ago. It never snows there.
Traffic on the way to an important meeting is only a problem because we didn’t leave twenty minutes earlier. The rent that’s hard to cover after a vacation—same thing.
The real world feels like the source of our problems. But our decisions over time might be the actual culprits, hiding in the corner.
Instead of treating time as a given and the real world as an impediment, what happens if we accept the real world and make different decisions about time?
