ABSTRACT

The time frame acts as an accelerator; without it, there is drift and no urgency: As the famous conductor Leonard Bernstein said: "to achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time. The real battle is not external factors such as time, money or people, but the internal ones: factors such as our belief systems, especially our belief system about us. But let's be clear: time is perplexing and fascinating to everybody. We think we know what it is, but there is a sense in which it is like some giant from Greek mythology who we constantly have to wrestle with and seem never able to defeat. Yet for all our inability to get to grips with 'Time' and defeat it in an absolute sense, we need to be aware that our powers are far greater than we traditionally think.