Time Warrior by Steve Chandler

Time Warrior is author and coach Steve Chandler's new (2011) book on what he calls, 'non linear time management'. This page attempts to highlight some of the main ideas in the Time Warrior book.

Note to the reader: I do not receive any commission for promoting this book. I am writing about it because it contains ideas that are too important not to share!

Someone who slavishly follows a set of tips and tricks in order to cram more jobs in to the day.

A 101 chapter journey that invites a powerful change of perception which sees past the confines of our overwhelmed personality and in to our unlimited creativity.

If you have read Brian Tracy and Dave Allen, this is very different and an invitation to your own greatness, (greatness in action, not as an intellectual conversation piece).

"Time warrior is a serious call to ownership, a serious call to own your own day" (pxii)

"Non-linear time management is a commitment to action in the present moment. It's looking at a task and choosing NOW or 'not now'. "

Non -linear time management is about taking action. But it is so much more than working your way through a to do list. It's an attitude and a way of being that flows from this attitude.

Part of it comes from stopping some of what we habitually do.

"Most people think too much. Then they compound that problem by studying the feelings that come up for them as a result of that thinking. All this time that they spend thinking and feeling they could have been taking action." (p.xiv)

The more time we spend in out thoughts and feelings the more time we are caught in a loop, in a dream. We are practising out personalities rather than doing something, creating something.

You will notice throughout the book an emphasis on doing, but as mentioned above, not a frenetic, checking ABCs and Ds of our lists. It is a creative choosing of an attitude of altitude that swoops down on what you have chosen to do, and does it with complete focus.

How does the Time Warrior create?

"When I accept the role of time warrior, I will seek first to keep my soul alive. Instead of what most people do. They try to keep their fake identity alive." (p. 3)

The Time Warrior gives up having to be someone and chooses how they want to serve. They refuse to be stuck in opinions and judgements and give of themselves unstintingly through the freedom of discipline.

"A time warrior is a peaceful warrior but a warrior stil. Peacefully taking a sword to all those negative, frightening, depressing thoughts that are automatically believed... so that a great, timeless, active day can be created. A day with no time in it unless you want to make some." (p.6)

And this means actually challenging our own thoughts and feelings. Not from a comfortable chair in congenial company but when the feelings actually come to haunt us.

Perhaps some people are addicted to being busy. We can speculate all sorts of reasons, although productivity is not always one of them. A Time Warrior gives up an so learns to listen to the opportunity in the Now,

"They were going so fast they couldn't hear the universe whispering to them What was the universe saying? The universe was saying 'yes' to whatever they might ask for."

The book has much to say on this theme and it is central to the Time warrior's attitude. Steve Chandler outlines the Deuce Lutui story as an illustration of what e means by, 'commitment'. It is not just about sticking with something, it is about doing it. The concept is digital - do or don't do. Commitment is to do, no further discussion needed.

Commitment comes from choosing. The Time Warrior is free to choose because they are not trapped in what they 'should' be doing whether that is what their personality thinks they should be doing, or what someone else (someone else's personality) thinks they should be doing. A Time Warrior chooses what they want to create.

The book provides a process to capture and deal with problems that removes them from the emotional, potentially frightening arena of our minds and makes them concrete and thus available for action. I won't spoil your enjoyment of reading the process here!

Being a Time Warrior is an inner game. It is an illusion to think that the outer world changing would solve all our problems and give us all that we want. The challenge is to work with inner opponents; the feelings that confuse and debilitate us, and the belief that the feelings are real. The Time Warrior is not striving particularly to replace negative with positive, the sees through both and wants to be unlimited! This is time management with altitude!

We go through a process of learning that Steve Chandler refers to as 'transitioning'

"To transition we must enter a state in which we are no longer what we once were, and yet we are not who we must become".

We can learn to be Time Warriors because the lessons are all in our minds. The practical assignments are our dealings with the world and provide feedback about who we are choosing to become as we create.

Through the doorway of time, Steve Chandler has authored a complete personal development / success manual. You will find plentiful signposts and abundant invitations to step up to Life and what this means in the actions you take. Now, what are you going to DO?

The Deuce Lutui story: 

Steve Chandler's website