The Time Tool Musicians Avoid… Until It’s Too Late

Why Living in Two Universes Makes Time Feel Like the Enemy

This still feels like it happened yesterday.

I got an email that shook me to my core.

A colleague wrote to tell me that our mentor and dear friend had died suddenly in her sleep.

She was 61.

She had so many marvelous projects ahead of her, including a memoir she’d barely started.

We all tell ourselves we have plenty of time.

That’s the quiet story running underneath our busy lives, where our own creative work seems to come last.

In my grieving, I’ve been reflecting on time itself, and how musicians experience it while living in two different realms.

One is the practical world of scheduling, money, and managing the logistics of life.

The other is the realm of inspiration, artistry, and the flow state, where time can seem to stretch out before us.

We love Universe Two.

We resent Universe One.

And yet, we live with a foot in each. Many of us feel caught in an ongoing struggle between the competing claims on our time, trying to pursue our artistry while still maintaining the practical life that supports this.

We tell ourselves we’ll get to our creative projects when things calm down.
When we have the time.
When we can finally focus our attention on the work that feeds our souls.

But somehow, that spacious, perfect stretch of time rarely arrives on its own.

In this week’s video, I teach a tool from Phil Stutz and Barry Michels that shifts your relationship with Time itself and helps you work with the hours you already have.

It’s simple. And yes, uncomfortable.

And it builds self-trust, one small promise at a time.

The way you handle your time matters.

This isn’t about being more productive.

It’s about remembering that you and I are mortal.

What might be possible if you treated your time as something precious instead of infinite?