I was reading an article about Ecuador’s attempt to move from “event time” to “clock time” so that they could be more productive and compete better in the current business climate. What a wonderful thought. What if our lives were run by events instead of the clock?

Dinner would take as long as it takes. A television show would end when the subject had been completely covered. There would be no sudden death overtime in sports. An outdoor stickball game would go until the sun went down. Stores would close when people finished shopping. A trip would end after you had visited everyone.

And I would complete my approach shot when I am rushing to the net. It’s amazing how big a stimulus rushing can be. It’s as if someone is standing on the baseline honking at me to get moving so that I rush through the stroke on my approach in an unbalanced position and keep running forward to the net as the my opponent hits the ball past me because I completely forget to come to a stop.