'Time just flies.' Sounds familiar? Do you know where your time goes? 

How much 'time' are you spending on getting lost in details, unimportant aspects of a task, perfectionism, agitations, frustration, aggravation or cynicism? This is when time seemingly runs away from us, or 'flees,'as the Roman poet Virgil suggests to whom the statement 'time flies' is attributed.

Is it 'time' to invite a sense of ease and freedom, choice and joy into your life by shifting your relationship to time? Below, you will find a simple seven-step suggestion that helps you create just that in your everyday personal and professional life. Take the plunge. Initiate the shift. Stop wasting your time. Start investing your time and reap the benefits.

Imagine a task or situation where you feel you tend to simply put in time or perhaps waste time. Got it? Now initiate the shift. Look at the same task or situation. Do you consider it worth an important investment -both in terms of time and energy? If so, what jumps out at you immediately?If not, ask yourself why you choose to do about that–choose either to takeyourself out of the situation or to make the shift to a conscious relationship with time that nurtures you.

I'llgive you a practical and personal example. Accounting tasks and taxpreparation used to figure high in my areas of wasted time and energy.I could waste much time simply dragging out even beginning the job.Once started, any distraction would do to get me away from the task athand. The end result-lots of resentment, a sense of depletion anddissatisfaction, just to name a few of the emotions.

So here is my simple seven-step suggestion that assists me in such circumstances to make the shift from wasting into investing my time. This shift invariably energizes and rejuvenates me.