Imagine you had a bank
account that deposited $86,400 each morning. The account carries over no
balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening
cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day. What would
you do? Draw out every dollar each day!
We all have such a bank.
Its name is Time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every
night it writes off, as lost, whatever time you have failed to use wisely. It
carries over no balance from day to day. It allows no overdraft so you can’t
borrow against yourself or use more time than you have. Each day, the account
starts fresh. Each night, it destroys an unused time. If you fail to use the
day’s deposits, it’s your loss and you can’t appeal to get it back.
There is never any
borrowing time. You can’t take a loan out on your time or against someone
else’s. The time you have is the time you have and that is that. Time
management is yours to decide how you spend the time, just as with money you
decide how you spend the money. It is never the case of us not having enough
time to do things, but the case of whether we want to do them and where they
fall in our priorities.
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