Time is the Most Valuable Resource

David McIver Edwards    Personal Development     time management

Yes, I know we have all heard it Time and Time again, no pun intended… TIME IS THE MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE we are all Given.  I think that way too often in life we are given something and we do not embrace it as we sometimes have a hard time placing value on something that is just given to us.  Take for instance friendship, love and opportunity.  Way too often, people say I will make time for my friends or my significant other Later, or I will pursue that opportunity that someone spoke to me about the other day Later.  Then Later never comes!

Are you absolutely sure that Later will come?  Every day we are given the gift of 86,400 seconds to make the most of.  Are you making the most of the gift of time?  How busy would you be right now if those 86,400 seconds were $86,400 and you had only until the end of the day to spend it or you would lose it FOREVER.  Sure for the first few days, weeks maybe even a month it would be easy to just spend the money on things you wanted and needed, give some to charity and fulfill your dreams and desires.  But then the day would come where it would be hard to spend that money and you would just start to take it for granted knowing that the next day another $86,400 would be deposited into your account.

Unfortunately, this is how many people look at the gift of time.  They THINK that they will get another 86,400 seconds the next day and that they can do those things they should be doing today tomorrow.

PROCRASTINATION IS THE GRAVE IN WHICH OPPORTUNITY IS BURIED

~ Author Unknown

Maybe you are one of the lucky ones and you will have many more days of time deposits…  However, you still should be grateful for each and every day that you have and make the most of it.

I challenge you to take 5 minutes right now when you are done reading this and ask yourself these questions.

• What value do I place on my time?
• What have I been procrastinating about?
• Do I have set goals and a plan?

Then tomorrow or the next business day, take an inventory of your time in 15 minute increments.  See what it is exactly that you do every day and where you can recover some wasted or disorganized time to put towards more worthwhile efforts.

If you begin to think of each and every second of your life as a gift that was given to you and you will never get back you will be amazed at what you can accomplish.  It is just like the day before you go on vacation, look at how much you usually get done in that one day.

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