Time Zone
Your awareness of where others are in their journey. The ability to meet people in their time, not just yours.
Nara Smith and Learning to Be Patient With Her Kids
Time Zone is about your ability to meet people where they are in their journey, not just where you are. Nara Smith's patience problem was fundamentally a Time Zone problem — she was operating on adult-pace, task-oriented time, and expecting her young children to keep up. The shift she made was actively placing herself in her children's Time Zone: understanding that a five-year-old asking why they have to go to bed isn't being difficult, they genuinely don't understand time. That perspective adjustment changed the emotional temperature of the interaction before anything else did.