We divide our time and lives between work and leisure. But rarely do we allow ourselves the leisure in our work to allow it to be enriching, to allow us to develop and apply our skills and interact rewardingly with others. And rarely in our leisure do we allow ourselves the purpose and reward of doing things of value and benefit to others and ourselves. We need to account for both the inner and outer products of our work. The concepts and pressures of time are generated out of wrongful action and purposes.
Greed inflates the importance of time to where it controls our lives.
We need instead to learn how to focus more fully on the present. We need to learn to choose what is important to do and not do, and to rediscover how to allow ourselves the freedom to be fully immersed in what we are doing - be it extraordinary or mundane. That pressure changes our lives - whether talking with a stranger or doing some work which we could otherwise love. It causes us to draw back from opportunities which arise during our day which might be more time-consuming. Yet these can be the very opportunities that result in deeper and richer relationships and lives.