Dryden Is Home

An Extra Hour

This week we were given an extra hour. What a gift!

Of course, this is a gift that was taken from us back in the spring.

An extra hour! What will you do with it? 

An extra hour of sleep? Time to watch an episode of your favorite show? More play time with your 2 year old daughter? Returning those deliquent emails? Writing a blog post that you've been putting off?

A few minutes split up between a bunch of activities that you've been neglecting?

Are you saving that hour for later? Maybe if you save 10 of these over the next 10 years you can give yourself a whole day at the spa or in the woods or in meditation. Can you be patient enough to wait 10 years to spend those 10 hours?

Did you over spend that hour a bunch of times yesterday? Well I have an extra hour so I can say yes to a lot more things or just a few more things. I have time to take it easy. I have time to start one new thing. I have time to read. I have time to sleep, to nap, to rest, to do nothing. Are you more rested with that extra hour? Or more tired?

If you can't figure out what to do with it, be patient. In the spring it will be taken from you. 

If you want to meet someone who has been thinking a lot about time, join me in seeing Alan Lightman at Ithaca College on Friday evening. Lightman wrote "Einstein's Dreams" (1993) and I first read it as a freshman at Northeastern in 1994. It was the beginning of my shift from computer scientist to reader. Can you join me Friday evening at Ithaca College? Do you have an hour to spare?

http://www.ithaca.edu/hs/events/series/cpsnow/fall14speaker/

November 1st is the new January 1st

Time to start something new!

Today is Sunday, November 2nd and I'm back to the blog. Over the last couple months I've been thinking about a lot of things - more than just work and entrepreneur life. My friend Miles started a poetry blog. My friend Heidi has been painting and having exhibitions. My friend Nick has been playing the guitar out at shows.

All of this made me think that my creativity and public delivery of such creativity has been in hiding for the last few years.

On Friday night I shared with Arjan how Nick and Kate and I met. It was due to this blog way back in 2006 or 2007. This blog also helped me meet Dustin and Gary and Simon and maybe even you! So, for now the blog is back.

Since it is the beginning of a month - why not start now? 

What have you been thinking about doing and what have you been postponing? What have you been waiting until "the new year" to get started? Start today!

Links:

Miles' blog: http://milesisnow.wordpress.com/