We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. (Alice Bloch)
That puts it in a different light doesn’t it? We are not wasting time, we are wasting ourselves.
Ouch!
Does this put couch potato weekends at risk? Does Late Night with Jay or Conan drop in priority? Does Twitter really need your traffic this afternoon? Does your six-pack buddy really need you?
And, what about all that time consuming worry? Do you worry about your kids, or the economy or your job? Maybe you need to give up some of the worry, and go to work on your life. The point here is simple. You have a certain number of moments left. Will you use them well? Will you choose to waste them? Do you play when you play? Do you work when you work? Do you love when you love? Are you alive?
Rudyard Kipling said, “If you can fill the unforgiving minute; with 60 seconds worth of distance run; yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.” Poetic overstatement perhaps… but he got it at a deep level.
Fight to live intensely. You deserve it.
Posted in Mind, Time Management.
Tagged with couch potato, Human Potential, Kipling, live intensely, Mission, Purpose, waste time, wasting time.
By Wayne Key
– July 7, 2009
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. (Eric Hoffer)
Have you ever had something that you really wanted? Did you try a bit, and then back off? Did you keep thinking about it in the odd moment? Did the sands of time keep running, and you wondered? Wondered if it was practical? Wondered if you could? Wondered if you would?
I have. I did.
That’s why I take Gary Vaynerchuk to heart. He says that if it is in your “DNA,” you must do it. Anything less will make you less than who you really are.
Don’t fight your “DNA.” Be who you really are. Today.
Read my “Time: Little Bits Add Up.” We all have the time. Do we have the courage?
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Posted in Character, Personal Development, Soul.
Tagged with Character, desire, Gary Vaynerchuk, Human Potential, Mission, Purpose, sands of time.
By Wayne Key
– July 6, 2009
No one has enough time these day. It must be true, everyone says it. Yet oddly, some get a lot done and some get nothing done. Still, every one of us has the same amount of time. We have 24 hours today, and another 24 hours tomorrow, and on and on.
Most of us can handle the big blocks of time; it is the little blocks that often defeat us.
Consider: the power of little bits of time. One grain of sand at a time, if you will.
If you invest just one hour a day for a year, you have 365 hours. That is 9.125 forty-hour work weeks. That is over two months of work weeks. A normal 3 hour college credit course includes 3 hours of class time per week, and 3 hours of homework. Yes, yes… I know, organic chem and others break the pattern, but you get the idea. So 9 hours of class work per week times 15 weeks is 135 hours of work to get one ”A.” To get three “A’s” you need 405 hours. Your one hour a day for a year is just under 9 standard college credit hours. A good student could make it happen. Nine credit hours is just under a “minor” in most colleges.
Now figure what bumping it to 10 hours a week would do.
Start thinking in terms of what you want to Master. You have the time.
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Posted in Mind, Time Management.
By Wayne Key
– July 3, 2009
