Time: Your Most Valuable Resource

If time is sacred and finite, how do you want to spend it?

Anytime death brushes close, I feel the pull to be present. To drop in. To pay attention to what really matters. I’ve witnessed many births and many deaths— some up close, some at a distance. I’ve come to recognize that much of my work lives in this liminal space, near the veil.

Grief arrived early for me. I was initiated into the profound world of Grief at 13 when I experienced the untimely death of my grandfather and its visited often since. I don’t know why or if there even is a reason. But I’ve learned that meaning-making is part of my nature. Sometimes it’s helpful, other times it drives me mad. It’s heavy, but I still do it.

When I say 90 Day Magic isn’t about productivity, I mean it. It’s not about squeezing more out of yourself for the sake of producing more - more art, more work, more money- that’s not the point. The point is to take agency back over your time. This framework was born from the question,

If time is sacred and finite, how do I want to spend it?

This is the premise for 90 Day Magic. What happens when you build a container of intention for 90 days? Your values might point you toward rest, toward wonder, toward holding space for your grief. They might urge you to write, or to stop writing. To create. Or to simply breathe.

As I continue to iterate on 90 Day Magic, I’ve been mulling over the way I’ve approached the topic of Time. It’s foundational to the framework- the first module after Values. As I walked my first cohort through this framework back in 2022, I leaned all the way in and warned people we would be talking about the finite nature of Time, which leant itself to talking about the inevitability of death. It made people squirm.

Lately I’ve been toying with the idea of scrubbing the framework of spirituality. I have a healthy dose of fear of being another white person co-opting new age spiritual talk with the hope of selling you something. But here we are, the spiritual, the Death realm of it all, front and center for me as I sit down to write about Time. Time is inherently spiritual, wildly personal, and universal to us all.

Time is unknown- it’s also yours. The quantity may be out of your control, but the quality is all yours. You have the right to ask, How do I want to spend the next 90 days?

Below are some journal prompts to help you take inventory of your time. Where are the leaks on your time? Are you spending your time the way you want to? What tiny, subtle shifts could you make to get closer to alignment?