How to get Time on Your Side

Dear Time Traveler (that’s you),

I recently watched a YouTube video of The Rolling Stones on The Ed Sullivan Show from 1964—back when TV was black and white, but Mick Jagger’s charisma was already in full technicolor. There he was with his baby face and mop-top, singing:

“Time is on my side, yes it is…”

And you know what? I believed him.

Sure, 1964 Keith Richards could walk past me today, and I’d probably ask him for directions to Starbucks. But Mick? Mick is timeless. And not just in a “still tight pants” kind of way. He’s a walking, strutting case study in what it looks like to decide time isn’t the boss of you.

How about you? Are you the boss of time, or is time the boss of you?

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🧠 If You’re Blaming Time, It’s Probably Fear in Disguise

When you find yourself saying,  “I don’t have enough time,” to ___________ (Put anything in that spot), I invite you to check in with yourself. What’s underneath that lack of time? Often it’s fear.  Fear of failing. Of choosing wrong. Of succeeding and not knowing what to do next. Time becomes the scapegoat when fear sneaks into the driver’s seat.

Physics, unfortunately, disagrees.

Einstein (a guy whose hair suggests he, too, had a hard time keeping a schedule) said:

“The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

Translation? Time doesn’t flow. It just is.

When you feel like time is running out, it’s not. BUT You ARE believing it is.

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🕳️ Time Scarcity: A Black Hole of a Thought

The thought “I never have enough time” is like stepping into a black hole: No escape, total distortion, and possibly weird hair by the end.

Scarcity, however, is optional. It’s a thought, not a fact. And since time is a psychological construct that physicists argue might not even “pass” (I see you, John McTaggart), then guess what? You’re the one passing judgment on time.

You can choose thoughts like:

• “Time is on my side.”
• “I have exactly as much time as I need.”
• “It’s never too late to be a badass.”

Because if we’re talking physics, you’re not in time—you’re in spacetime. And that means you don’t just get to measure your minutes. You get to bend them with belief.

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📆 Why “More Calendaring” Isn’t Always the Answer

Coaches love to say, “Honor your calendar!” And sure, calendars are great.

But if you haven’t changed your belief first—if your internal soundtrack is still whispering “I don’t have enough”—then no amount of color-coded blocks will help. You’ll rebel against your calendar like it’s 1999 and your PalmPilot just beeped during a nap.

First: BELIEVE that time is on your side.
Then: Calendar

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☄️ Life Isn’t a Race—It’s a Relative Journey

Need more science to back up your intuition? On the quantum level, space and time might not even be separate. Time isn’t some cosmic treadmill you’re behind on. It’s more like a fabric you get to dance on. Or lie on. Or occasionally sob into.

The past, present, and future are all equally real. Which means it’s never too late:

• To change careers
• To start that business
• To write the book
• To be curious, playful, human
• To mess up and still show up

As Matt Haig writes:

“How to Stop Time – Kiss
How to Travel in Time – Read
How to Escape Time – Music
How to Feel Time – Write
How to Release Time – Breathe”

I’ll add one:

How to Get Time on Your Side – Talk to a Coach

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📞 Let’s Talk (Time Isn’t the Boss of You)

If you’re still wrestling with time like it’s your annoying roommate, let’s chat. I help physical therapists (and other gloriously overwhelmed humans) decide what they want, like their reasons, and get back their sense of time and agency.

You don’t need more time.
You need a new relationship with it.
And maybe a little Mick Jagger swagger while you’re at it.

🎸 Time is on your side. Yes. It. Is.

With relativity and rock & roll,

Kathleen
Certified Life Coach for Humans With Clocks