The word "tame" as a verb is defined as domesticating, subduing and reducing the native wildness of a concept so that it can be used (by humans). For the Ts that I've identified here - Time, Tummy (or appetite) and Treasury (concepts related to finances), that is what I'm setting out to do.
Tame your Time
A phrase that my father always repeat to me is "Take your TIME" and I've always received it as if he is telling me to "slow down" with tasks that I am doing. However, during the time that I started working and even pursued a master's degree - whenever my father would tell me to "Take your TIME", it struck me differently. People may call it maturity - I call it, expanding my grasp on a simple phrase - then I started understanding the message as if to "control" and "manage" my time.
Change in perspective
How I understand time is that it does not care about who I am, how old I am, what kind of car I'm driving, the amount of money I have in my bank account and the kind of food I like when I'm done fasting for 18 hours. Time does not care. What it does care about is to keep going. It will not stop for anyone, it may seem to go fast or slow but in reality - it keeps its pace. Unchanging, absolute.
However, I realized that taking my time may mean exactly like taking hold of my time. Taking the steering wheel of my time and completing the tasks that I can with my time. It is taking the reigns my time carriage to deliver the services and products that I am capable of doing. What my father was saying, and how I understand that phrase now, is that I have to master my time or become the master of my time. Time will keep going, not waiting for anybody and external stimuli will always try to disrupt my flow - but being the master of my time, taking control of my time is entirely up to me.
Time as an Instrument
As if an excerpt from Invictus by William Ernest Henley, I am truly the master of my fate and the captain of my soul - and with time as an instrument - I will achieve my goals towards a path to success.
Tame your Ts,
Tony
