School mornings, music lessons, trains to catch: we’re often in a rush in our house but sometimes the girls’ urgency is, er, questionable.
“Come onnnnn!” I plead.
Then I tell them, for the hundredth time, about The Amazing, Disappearing Last Five Minutes – those moments when you’re getting ready to go somewhere and it feels like you’ve got so much time to play with that you start doing that non-urgent, unimportant thing that’s been on your mind. Then you check your phone to make sure Instagram hasn’t fallen offline again, before squeezing a quick episode of Stranger Things or whatever happens to be the latest flavour of the Netflix month.
Those last five minutes before you’re supposed to leave the house have a habit of suddenly going up in smoke, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
And then?
And then you’re late leaving the house.
The same’s true when a big piece of work needs your time and attention.
“Oh, I’ll do that next week.”
Next week arrives and you suddenly have another important job to do. And then a new client pops up and wants a quote for something.
There’s no time like the present because the present doesn’t disappear like those five minutes in the near-future.
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