We crave time because we do not have enough of it.
The purpose of this website is to help you find time to do what matters to you. CraveTime core principles are based on the value of our limited time. Hence the need to – (i) appreciate our time (past and present); (ii) be good stewards of our time; and (iii) respect the time of others.
There are three main parts to this website:
Thanks for taking the time to visit our website. It is our hope that it will be time well spent and that through CraveTime you will find time to do what matters to you. We started the website in January 2010. Our plan is to build time-saving content rapidly, so please keep returning.
In good time, Steve Oades and David Jeyachandran
CraveTime is brought to you by Steve Oades and David Jeyachandran.
Steve Oades pictured with his daughter. He heads up the consultancy arm of Adept Business Systems, and is currently taking a sabbatical from volunteer work. Over the past decade Steve has been dedicated to volunteer work with teenagers, refugees, mission work in India, and sat on volunteer committees. He hopes to one day work full time helping charities and missions operate more effectively.
Steve craves time to – spend with his family, have good conversations over a meal with friends, learn, travel, keep fit, give, and time to just sit quietly and think.
David Jeyachandran pictured with his wife and twin girls. Everyone with toddlers craves time especially with twins. DJ is currently in Peru learning Spanish as he prepares to work with a Christian Mission. DJ is one of life’s Mr Nice guys- very passionate, diplomatic with a great smile. He often manages to survive awkward situations like the time he signed up for a triathlon, even though he couldn’t swim.
DJ craves time to do the things he is doing now but to be able to do them better.
Enough about us – the purpose of this website is to help people who are craving more time in their life to do the things they would rather (or should) be doing.
The passage of time is not as it seems. Does time slow down during a crisis? Does time fly when you’re having fun? Does time get faster as you get older? Is the return trip of a journey shorter? Will the watched kettle ever boil?
How close have you been to death? Experiences that heighted our death awareness can sharpen our mind to the way we think about time.
We regularly coming across quotes on time. Our current favourites are:
Waiting for someone who is running late is annoying. The issue is not trivial according to the Stop Lateness campaign which claims that the average British person losses 38 hours a year from lateness. That is a lot of wasted time.
The way we view and deal with time is central to our life. Some people seem to have all time in the world, while others can't get enough time. Time perspective guru’s Zimardo and Boyd, claim that time perspectives is "one of the most powerful influences on virtually all aspects of human behavior".
Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple) was recently named CEO of the decade by Fortune magazine. He once said – “Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”
The well-known designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his office seven years to take a yearlong sabbatical.
