“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” (Albert Einstein)
Does it ever feel like everything is happening all at once? Or maybe that it should, or needs to. I “get” that feeling. It happens to me sometimes. This feeling means that your priorities have slipped; that you really don’t know for, sure and certain, what comes next.
Everyone says that we have so much going on today; that we are all so very busy. Well, I have news for you; we humans have always been too busy. Imagine caring for a family of 7 with no running water. Imagine plowing the field, that feeds your family and doing it on foot, with a horse. Imagine hand-spinning the cotton, to make the fabric, to sew the dress that your daughter needs.
We human always have too much going on. That is because we are creative. We can always think of more to do, than we can do. Focus on your mission. Why are you here? What is your Purpose? What is your Mission?
Maybe yours is to raise your family well. Maybe yours is get that Black Belt or to write that book. Maybe today’s purpose is to get that paper done, or plan that trip.
Know your purpose of the Moment, and work to find the Mission of your Life.
When you find these, you will find your time.
H. Jackson Brown author of Life’s Little Instruction Book said, “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
I agree. It’s time to get busy.
Posted in Mind, Time Management.
Tagged with black belt, Einstein, Human Potential, Mission, Purpose, Time Management, What is your Mission, What is your Purpose.
By Wayne Key
– July 8, 2009
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
