Your First Decision – How Long Have I Got?

While according to the discipline of Quantum Physics, time may indeed be infinite, my and your slice of it sadly isn’t. With this in mind it remains for us, in our own lives, to determine what we will in fact do with this scarce resource – this unknown, but estimable, quantity of time. I am not sure how many of us feel we will ever get the answer to this right, but there are undoubtedly key transition points that come to us all that trigger an evaluation of how best to use the time available. Whether this is in response to an early childhood question such as “what do you want to be when you grow up?’‘ or whether it is prompted by a mid-life event, the determination of the path to follow should be preceded by a fulsome analysis of the options available and our appetite for each. There is, of course, a subtle interplay between the two forces of the time available on the one hand, and our hopes and dreams on the other. They liberate and constrain each other and then inform us of what needs to change to get to where we want to be. We might decide to move house or move country, we might decide to embark on a new relationship, we might decide to work fewer hours to spend more time with the family, we might even decide not to decide and to see what happens next.