Part 9 of 45 · Chapter 10 · 12 min 47 sec
You’ve done the work on time management. You’ve read the books on productivity. You’ve tried the calendars, the time-blocking apps, the morning routines, the deadline-setting frameworks. You know how to set SMART goals. You know how to reverse-engineer a target. You’ve probably set yourself a “by next year I’ll be earning X” goal more times than you can count.
And yet, if something still isn’t clicking, here’s what David exposes in this chapter: the deadline itself might be the thing slowing you down. Not your work ethic. Not your discipline. The arbitrary date you picked out of thin air. The “one year from now” or “by my 45th birthday” that felt motivating when you wrote it down — but quietly introduced fear, doubt, and a low-grade panic that makes detachment almost impossible.
It’s not you. You weren’t taught this. Every productivity book on your shelf told you to set a deadline. Nobody mentioned that picking a random future date can actually push the thing further away, because it locks your mind into “not yet” instead of “now.” You followed the instructions exactly. The instructions were incomplete.
Here’s the reframe David offers in Chapter 10: time isn’t what you think it is. Quantum physics, ancient wisdom traditions, and your own deepest moments of presence all agree — the only real time is now. Not in a fluffy way. In a practical, wealth-creating, results-shifting way. When you say “I am wealthy now” instead of “I will be wealthy by December,” something changes in how the universe organises around you. The future stops being the place you’re chasing and starts being the thing chasing you.
So here’s the invitation: listen to this chapter not as another time-management lecture, but as a quiet correction to almost everything you’ve been told about how to get where you want to go.
What this chapter unlocks
- Why setting deadlines can actually slow your results down. David explains how arbitrary dates introduce doubt (“will I make it?”) and make detachment harder — the very state needed for the source to organise outcomes for you.
- The difference between “I will be” and “I am.” “I am” is a present-tense command. “I will be” keeps the thing perpetually out of reach. David shows why every goal should be written and felt in the I-am present tense.
- Why Jesus always said “soon” when asked when. “Soon” fits the now-here structure of reality. Specific dates fight against it. This is one of the most quietly radical reframes in the whole book.
- How repetition makes you blind. The hundredth time you see your spouse, your customer, your work — you stop actually seeing it. David shows how to recover the freshness of the first time, and why that freshness accelerates wealth and growth.
- The five things that genuinely shorten time: certainty, clarity of imagination, being of one mind (not flip-flopping), concentration, and raising awareness from conscious to subconscious to superconscious. Deadlines aren’t on the list.
The 30-second test
Listen to the first 30 seconds. If you hear David describing how repetition turns experience into unconsciousness — how the hundredth time you do something, you stop actually seeing it — and you feel a quiet jolt of recognition about your own work, your own relationships, your own daily routine, this is your chapter. The whole teaching unfolds from that single observation.
Why this chapter matters in the series
Chapter 9 introduced the truth about time as a concept of mind. Chapter 10 takes it into practice: how you write your goals, how you respond when people ask “when?”, how you handle the gap between “I am wealthy now” and the physical evidence around you. The chapters that follow build on this present-tense foundation — because almost everything else in the book (gratitude, faith, certainty, manifestation) only works in the now. Without this chapter, the rest can feel like wishful thinking.
Read the full transcript
The first time you do something is a journey of discovery. You take in the details and learn many new things. At his point, there are no labels and this point, there are no labels and memories to enable you to prejudge this new experience. Learning is at its highest. The hundth time you do it is often very different. For most people, repetition brings about unconsciousness. Most people do and see things that occur most often in their lives in an unconscious and unaware state. Because they have seen or done something else, they turn to relying on their memories of it and labels about it that they built in their minds the first time. Learning and iscovery drops
to zero. Memories of discovery drops to zero. Memories of past experiences take over. What good oes it serve you to live today based on does it serve you to live today based on your memory of it yesterday? You miss the gift of the present moment totally in your business or work. Do you take an absolutely fresh look at your work, workmates, and customers each new day? Or do you go by how you know them in the past? Everything changes. And using memory keeps you from seeing that change, seeing things as they truly are. Try to forget everything about what you are looking at and you will discover a whole new world and you will grow
a whole lot faster, grow your wealth and self a whole lot quicker. Think about it. It is quite often that a stranger will compliment your workmate or spouse over something that you totally miss every day because you do not look at hem as if they were totally new to you. them as if they were totally new to you. Memory has its place, but many people overuse it, often in an unbeneficial way. Decide right now to face every experience a new by choosing to forget hat you have ever faced it before. that you have ever faced it before. Decide not to anticipate a specific appearance or behavior. and anticipation based on your memory and emotions. Practice
detachment of outcome, but have certainty of your choices and intention, and you will find a world that has been hiding from you all along, right in front of your eyes all along. Choose happiness, present moment living, and joy at all times. Thank the present moment for all it brings you in enjoyable experiences and in its opportunities to see yourself as you were before and to grow to an even greater self. Bring into the present moment your awareness, consciousness, thoughts, and looking life and all your opportunities to move forward are in the present. The verpresent moment of now everpresent moment of now here. Do not throw yourself forward into where you wish to be all day
long. Imagination about the future is great, for it is what you use to create your future, but the present has great value. Only through acting and living in the present can you get to the future. Do not spend all day daydreaming about a future time, saying, “If only.” mentally escaping your present and dwelling in an imaginary tomorrow. Going on about the whole day in a dreamlike state, being only half aware and conscious of the details going on in your day. These things actually slow you down on your trip to a better tomorrow. Just as it is necessary that you set future goals, it is necessary that you embrace and experience the present and act in
it consciously and with awareness if you wish to progress. Remember, the universe can only use the present moment to send you clues. people, events, and opportunities to advance. It cannot use the imaginary future in your head. Instead of chasing a better future by throwing your consciousness into the future, bring it back to the present and let the future chase it there. Now, here the wheels of time are mysterious. Time is a concept of mind. Without mind, there is no concept of time. Annihilate the mind. You will go beyond time. You will enter the realm of timeless. You will live in the ternal. eternal. Sivananda. Do not dwell in the past. Do not dream of the
future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha BC 568 to 488. Be careful how you set deadlines for yourself. Time does not exist as an absolute. Quantum physics, our spirituality, and our understanding of eternity all tell us that the only time that truly exists is now. And the only place is here. Here. Now. For example, imagine that you had a goal of becoming a millionaire or a billionaire in a year. Think about this. Why did you choose one year? It is a very arbitrary date or deadline. It is a mere grab at a date. It is possible that the source can create that millionaire or billionaire outcome in an instant. Nothing is difficult for
the source, God. So why set a random date for the accomplishment of what can be accomplished in the blink of an eye or at a time that is best suited for you that you may not have thought of right now? Making deadlines for yourself also introduces fear and oubt. Will you make it by that date? doubt. Will you make it by that date? And often actually slows you down. What if you could have done it a lot sooner, but your mind keeps looking at that far away date? It also makes detachment difficult, which is crucial for letting the infinite and unpredictable organizing power of the source work optimally for you. On the other hand, saying
one day I will be a millionaire or billionaire is no good at all. It is even worse. Instead, think of now as the only time. See it and know it to be the only real time. I am now a millionaire. Now I am. That is how you should always think, act, speak and feel about everything. When people ask you when, say soon. Jesus always said soon when asked when by anyone. Soon fits a whole lot better in the now here scheme of things than setting a specific date. In your mind, it’s all now. Becoming has always been. Remember, even quantum physics proves to you that time is not what you think it is. When you
say I am a millionaire now, and the physical evidence around you does not show that, this does not mean that you are lying to yourself. Indeed, the moment of now holds all existence in all possibilities, all at one time, including you being wealthy. That statement is true. It is the eyes that lie. Einstein once said that no matter how persistent the illusion of time may be, the illusion of past, present, and future, it is still an illusion. Have patience with the unfolding of things. If you rush or force them, you interfere and slow them down. Nature is perfect. If you wish for faster results, the right way to shorten time is raising your certainty, increasing
the clarity of your imagination, being of one mind. Do not keep changing your mind, concentrating, and most importantly, raise your awareness from the level of your conscious only to that of your conscious, subconscious, and superconscious mind and self. Most people are unaware of their subconscious and superconscious selves. If you perfect awareness, imagination, faith, certainty, and clarity, you can create results instantly. You are now beginning and you will get better as time goes by. Just be deliberate in these things and choose to be more aware and certain and it will happen. But do not be impatient because that throws you into a state of wanting and this delays results even further. I am present tense. That
is how your goals should be written. But it is useless to write them that way if you do not think about them in the I am present ense mode. Be aware of and deliberate nse mode. Be aware of and deliberate nse mode. Be aware of and deliberate in your thoughts and make sure that you always think of your goals and intentions in the I am present tense fashion all day long. I am is a command of the universe to immediately get into the process of manifesting your wishes into physical reality. It is a declaration of the state of being in the moment of now here. You must understand and remember this very clearly always. When
you intend to have or experience something, you must know that you have it already. Really, you do have it already. All you will be doing from then on is receiving it, taking possession of it. Actually, you will be awakening to something that has always existed with you. Right now, as you read this sentence, you are already very, very wealthy. From now on, all you’ll be doing is taking possession of this wealth, receiving it, or more accurately, becoming awake to it. And be grateful now for the things you desire to experience. For you know you already have the things. Gratitude now speeds up your experiencing what you choose because it ascertains your faith and state of
being. Nothing is there to come and nothing past. But an eternal now does always last. Abraham Cowi 1618 to 1667. Time has only a relative xistence. existence. Carlile. Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current. No sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by, and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. Marcus Aurelius 121 to 180 AD. When you sit with a nice girl for 2 hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s 2 hours. That’s relativity. Albert Einstein. There is a bridge between time and eternity. And this
bridge is the spirit of man. Neither day nor night cross that bridge nor old age nor death sorrow upanishads. Time is breath. Try to understand this. Gurajv 1873 to 1949. Know the true value of time. Snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Chesterfield 1694 to 1773. You wake up in the morning and low. Your purse is magically filled with 24 hours of the magic tissue of the universe of your life. No one can take it from you. No one receives either more or less than you receive. Waste your infinitely precious commodity as much as you will and the
supply will never be withheld from you. Moreover, you cannot draw on the future. Impossible to get into debt. You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste tomorrow. It is kept for you. Arnold Bennett. Eternity is the infinite xistence of every moment of time. If we xistence of every moment of time. If we xistence of every moment of time. If we conceive time as a line, then this line will be crossed at every point by the lines of eternity. Every point of the line of time will be a line in eternity. The line of time will be a plane of eternity. Eternity has one dimension more than time. Gurf 1873 to 1949. What a
folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard of throwing it away by parcels and peace meal. John How. The present is only a mathematical ine which divides that part of eternal ine which divides that part of eternal ine which divides that part of eternal duration which we call the future from that which we call the past. HP [Music] Blavatski. End of disc one. Please continue this experience by inserting disc 2. [Music]
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