Time – you have less
than you think.
Tim Connor
A recent study I read
said that if a person lives to age 90 they get 4680 weeks of life. A different study stated that the average
lifespan of an American today is 77.3 years.
Ok, I’m doing the math – so if you are 40 +/- you have approximately -
1900 weeks left to live. And your point
Tim is, other than being morbid? Just a
quick question – are you living as a spectator or creating a legacy that
touches life and others in a significantly positive way and that you will leave
behind many people who will smile when they think of your life while you were here?
Curious about this
simple concept and the number of days?
OK, let’s say you make
it to 77 (the current average lifespan)
that’s 29,000 days. You are currently 50
– what’s left for you - 30 years or about 9500 days. Trust me – that’s a flash of time considering
this year seems like it just started and its already April.
Tim, where are you
going with this? In a hurry? Laugh!
OK, at least smile!
Two brief points I’d
like to make.
-You can’t manage
time.
-Today matters.
You can’t manage time.
An Interesting concept when you consider there are millions of people every day
trying to improve their time management. And many of them attend time
management seminars to learn how to better use time.
I challenge you to manage the next
minute! Can’t do it. Time passes.
When you are doing what you like or are with people you enjoy time seems
to speed by. When you are doing things you hate or are with people you don’t
like time seems to creep by very slowly.
The rate of time passage does not change. Your perception of passing
time does. Time management is a misnomer. If you are having trouble managing time I’ll
be you are having trouble managing:
-people -resources -decisions -procrastination
-success -failure -emotions -feelings -problems -attitudes and so on.
The inability to successfully manage any of
the above will result in a “time management” problem. To improve your time effectiveness, you must
improve one or all of the above. A myth - we all wish we had more time? Believe that?
Let me ask you, do you think the average person with a life-threatening disease wish they had more
time? Who really wants more time? Does a
five-year-old think about time
passage? Do you really think the average
teenager is worried about getting older?
We all get
twenty-fours a day – regardless of whether you are happy or sad, alone or
surrounded by friends, wealthy or broke, sick or healthy – etc. Want more time? Forget it. One day you will breathe your last breath –
will your last thought be – I wish I had done; more? Less? Better? Sooner?
Today matters.
Why do so many people take life for
granted assuming that they will have all the time they need to do all the
things they want, visit all the places they desire and accomplish all of their
goals and plans? Why do so many people
squander their present moments or settle in life for an unfulfilling career or relationship? Why do so many people during their life waste
thousands of hours reliving old mistakes and failures, bad decisions and
unfulfilled dreams?
Why do so many people want more or
better but refuse to try or choose to remain stuck?
I don’t have a clue. I have done a few of these many times
myself. What you choose to do with the time you are given is up to you because it is
your life and it too will be very short in comparison to the time that man has
walked the earth or will walk the Earth for centuries to come.
Life is short and the older you get the
faster it moves. Once you hit fifty
trust me, the hours, days and years will fly by and there isn’t a thing you can
do to slow them down.
All you can do is put as much life as
you can into the days, weeks and years you have. Years ago, one of my best
friends passed away at age forty-one. I
have had several mentors and heroes who made it well past ninety. Who is to say
how many years each of us will get? Who
has a contract with God that says you will make it to the ripe old age of one
hundred and as spry, mentally alert and healthy as you were when you were in
your teens? No one. Each day is a gift. Each moment is a blessing. If this is true, why do so many people whine
and moan about stupid stuff and the quality of their life? Don’t like something – change it, fix it or
delete it. Sure, I would like to have more money, be better looking, enjoy
excellent health, but guess what – sooner or later life happens to all of us.
No one sits around in their twenties planning their life thinking OK, let’s
make sure we include divorce, failure, bankruptcy, cancer, career disaster,
discouragement, loneliness and any number of negative circumstances in their
future. But in the end, we all get our
share of both good and bad stuff.
Some people leave legacies of love
while others leave legacies of despair and hate. Some people leave having given more than they
took, and others leave having taken more than they gave. What will be your legacy? How will you live each of the precious
moments you were given?
So, friends, live today because before
you know it, it will be your time to say good-bye.
You are here for a little
while and then you are gone forever.
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