Time and Business

✨ How to Master Time Management with Purpose, Passion, and Presence

🌅 Introduction: Your Relationship with Time Shapes Your Business

How you relate to time inside your business directly impacts your consistency, creativity, and income. For many entrepreneurs (especially women, parents, and caregivers) time often feels scarce, rushed, and fragmented. But what if time could expand instead of contract?

This reflection explores both the practical and energetic dimensions of time management in business.

👩‍👧‍👦 Building a Business Through Every Season of Life

Running a business through pregnancy, breastfeeding, newborns, toddlers, and school-age children is not easy—but it is possible. Consistency doesn’t come from having unlimited hours; it comes from honouring your work as meaningful and essential.

When your business is treated as a side hobby, it is constantly pushed aside. When it is acknowledged as purposeful work (your dharma) it naturally finds space in your life.

🎯 Time Management Starts with Prioritisation

Effective time management isn’t just about doing more, it’s about choosing what matters.

Key practical strategies include:

• 📦 Batching tasks like content creation, emails, and social media

• 🗓️ Planning work in advance instead of reacting daily

• ⏱️ Creating and honouring a realistic schedule

• 🧠 Reducing mental load by avoiding constant task-switching

When your work generates income and aligns with your purpose, it deserves to be prioritised, not postponed.

🔥 Why Doing Work You Love Changes Time Itself

We’ve all experienced time dragging during boring, misaligned work—watching the clock, counting minutes, wishing the day away. This is one of the quiet tragedies of modern life.

In contrast, when you’re doing work you love, time seems to vanish. Hours pass quickly and you find yourself wanting more  time, not less. This is a powerful indicator that you’re aligned with your purpose.

Your time is too precious to spend most of it disconnected from meaning.

🔄 Is Time Really Linear? A New Perspective

While we’re taught that time is linear (morning to night, birth to death) physics tells a different story. Time can loop, stretch, slow down, or seemingly disappear.

You’ve felt this:

• 🐢 A boring hour feels endless

• 🚀 A fulfilling hour disappears in moments

This isn’t imagination. It’s lived experience and it matters in business.

⏱️ How Time Expands Under Pressure

Think of competitive cooking shows like MasterChef. In the final 60 seconds, contestants accomplish an incredible amount with intense focus. That same minute, in everyday life, often slips away unnoticed.

This shows us something important: time expands when attention sharpens.

📵 Time, Focus, and the Age of Distraction

In the age of AI and infinite information, time and attention are your most valuable resources.

Scrolling, gossiping, complaining, and consuming low-quality content drains both. Intentional focus multiplies them.

Ask yourself:

• 🤔 How can I make this hour more meaningful?

• 🌱 What would feel fulfilling—not just productive?

• 🔍 Where am I leaking attention unnecessarily?

🌌 Playing with the Energetics of Time

Beyond schedules and planners, there is an energetic dimension to time.

Instead of approaching your day with urgency and contraction, try:

• 🌬️ Visualising spaciousness around your time

• 📈 Feeling time expand rather than rush

• 🧘‍♀️ Working with calm presence instead of pressure

Your perception of time shapes how it behaves for you.

🕉️ Time as a Spiritual Practice

Time is not just a resource, it’s a teacher.
Your attitude toward the 24 hours you’re given sets the tone for how you live, create, and serve.

When approached with intention, discipline, and reverence, time becomes an ally rather than an enemy.

📚 Upcoming Offerings on the Yoga of Time

There are two opportunities to explore this work more deeply:

• 🆓 A free live session exploring time through goddess wisdom, yoga philosophy, and Vedic astrology www.bhaktirose.com.au/timewithkaya

• 🌿 A new online program: The Yoga of Time—combining spiritual teachings with practical tools for business owners

🌟 Final Reflection: Time Is Your Most Precious Resource

Yes, time is finite.
Yes, we all have the same 24 hours.

But how we perceive, prioritise, and honour that time makes all the difference.

Your relationship with time ultimately shapes the quality of your life.