214 Part III: Opening the Toolkit
Figure 13-4:
An in-front
time line for
a through-
time person.
Past
Present
Future
The shape of your time line can influence various personality traits. If you see
a through-time line, you have an American–European model of time, which
means that you may display the following tendencies:
✓ Able to keep your emotions separate from events
✓ Conscious of turning up for appointments on time
✓ Display a strong awareness of past and future events
✓ Goal-orientated
✓ Good at planning activities
✓ Have difficulty living in the now
✓ Very aware of the value of time
As a person with an in-time line you may have the following abilities
and tendencies:
✓ Creative
✓ Efficient at multi-tasking
✓ Engrossed in the current experience
✓ Feel your emotions very strongly
✓ Good at living in the moment
✓ Prefer to keep your options open
✓ Spontaneous
✓ Unlikely to plan far ahead
You can change the orientation of your time line in order to experience a dif-
ferent mindset, without changing any of the individual memories and events
of which your time line is made up. For example, if you’re an in-time person
and you have to keep to a time schedule, try turning your time line so that
you’re through time, with all your time line in front of you. Or, if you’re a
