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The simplest notion of what time is (which is to say the simplest notion of how we mostly assume time works) is that it's moving ahead linearly ie in a straight line. We assume that time originates somewhere behind us before the past, then moves forward on through the present with us, then continues on to somewhere ahead of us beyond the future. In business patois, we even assign this concept its own word: we call it the "time-line".
That may indeed be a very popular, very plausible description of how time works. It's certainly near the colloquial view. But given this is an inquiry, and given this is a conversation for transformation, I'd like to propose that maybe time isn't linear. Furthermore if time moves in a straight line from before the past, through the present, and continues on beyond the future, that's presupposing time would be both objective as well as linear, yes?
But what if time isn't objective? Furthermore, what if time is neither objective nor linear? What if time (or at least one critical aspect of time) is subjective? And what if time, rather than being linear ie rather than being a straight line originating before the past, moving through the present, then continuing on to beyond the future, is actually an ever-expanding sphere radiating out from a central point? (the sphere's central point is located exactly where we locate who we consider ourselves to be).