Here’s A New Perspective On Daylight Saving’s Time
It is officially that time of year again: we get to turn our clocks forward and “gain” an hour during the day.
Many people are excited around this time because the days officially get longer, and it perceivably gives us more time to accomplish things within a day. Believe it or not, where I’m from – a small town in northern British Columbia, Canada, called Fort St. John – we never had to change our clocks. Daylight savings time doesn’t and never existed there. I had heard of it before, but never really gave it much thought. It was after I moved to Toronto and 2010 and my former boss was giving us a speech about how we had to make sure to change our clocks and that any excuses for forgetting and showing up to work an hour late would not be accepted. I was excited, “So you mean we get a whole extra hour in the morning? That’s awesome!” To which I was responded to with a witty, “Well yeah, but don’t get too excited because that’s an extra hour you’ll lose in the fall.” “Oh.” Many people are excited for this event often referred to as “spring forward,” because to many it represents a whole extra hour of sleep before starting your day and heading off to work or whatever your morning ritual may be. However, maybe it’s time to rethink our perspective on this event. What if instead of looking at this as a perfect excuse to sleep in or laze around in bed, we saw it as a gift from Mother Nature to start waking up an hour earlier each morning and engaging in an enriching, mindful practice to give ourselves some much needed care and attention? There is a lot of power in a ritualistic daily practice, and often times we are quick to brush these things off by saying that we have no time. If that is typically an excuse you use, then daylight savings time is the perfect opportunity to drop the excuse and get started. Well, yes this is the inevitable: you will lose that extra hour you gained. But, hopefully by this time you will have fully reaped the benefits of waking up early that you will want to challenge yourself to keep it going, even when you technically lose an hour.
The great thing is, come springtime you will be given another gift of the extra hour. Maybe it’s time to wake up even earlier, or just enjoy it however you wish. Is this something that you would like to challenge yourself to try? Please share with us! .
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