Time ..... Use it or Lose it
If you had a bank that credited your account each morning with $86,400—with
no balance carried from day to day—what would you do? Well, you do have such a
bank…..TIME. Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it
rules off as “lost” whatever you have failed to use toward good purposes. It
carries over no balances and allows no overdrafts. You can’t hoard it, save it,
store it, loan it or invest it. You can only use it—time.
Time management is a challenge, which we constantly face through
our lives. As a kid balancing time between school, homework, play, sleep and of
course doing things you love to do and wanted to do. We carry this challenge to
our adult life, where it only gets complicated with multiple demands coming
through increased responsibility, both professionally and personally. Research
reveals, over the last 20 years, average working time has gone up by 15% and
leisure time has gone down by 33%. According to a survey, 40% of adults say if
they had more time, they would spend it with family. Quite astonishingly, the
we spend about a year of our lives just looking for lost or misplaced items!
I came across this article “First Thing Every Morning”, which
gave some interesting points of view and some terrific truths about time.
First: Nobody can manage time. But you can manage those things
that take up your time.
Second: Time is expensive. As a matter of fact, 80 percent of
our day is spent on those things or those people that only bring us two percent
of our results.
Third: Time is perishable. It cannot be saved for later use.
Fourth: Time is measurable. Everybody has the same amount of
time…pauper or king. It is not how much time you have; it is how much you use
and how you use it.
Fifth: Time is irreplaceable. We never make back time once it is
gone.
Sixth: Time is a priority. You have enough time for anything in
the world, so long as it ranks high enough among your priorities.
Now go ahead and use all your 86,400 seconds wisely. Every Day.
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