Every morning we awake with an amazing gift of another day, another 24 hours, another 1,440 minutes, another 86,400 seconds, how we choose to use this gift is completely up to us and we have total control of how we will face the challenge of using this gift to the best of our abilities.

Time is said to be the great equalizer, insomuch as it the same for everyone, nobody is entitled to more, no one can purchase more, and no one can save it for a rainy day. We all have the same gift and we all have the same opportunity to put it to use for ourselves. You can always earn more money but, you can’t obtain more time.

I find it fascinating that as I get older time seems to go by faster and faster, and in some ways that worries me. Have I used my time wisely or have I squandered it foolishly? When I was younger I thought I had all the time in the world and now I am starting to realize the stark truth that my time here is limited and that I have more time behind me than I can expect to have going forward. Maybe this is what a mid-life crisis is all about. I also have realized as I age that I spend my time in more meaningful activities, I limit my time watching television, I spend more time outside in my garden and yard, I spend more time trying to add value to others. I have gained wisdom over my time here on earth and I feel that I should share it with others. I spend much more time now learning and growing intellectually than ever before, I find it amazing just how much I don’t know and that how much there is out there that I can still learn. I have always said that you have to learn to live and that living is learning. If we are not learning, we are not living, and if we are not living, then we must be dying. I prefer to live, how about you?

I want to challenge you to look at how you spend your time currently, are you finding that you don’t have enough time in a day to accomplish all you need to accomplish? Are you struggling to keep ahead of your commitments? If so, then let me suggest that you track your time for a couple of days and see where you could possibly find some inefficiencies that you could turn into a more profitable investment of your limited supply of time. You should look at your days in 15-minute increments and see what it is that you are doing and how you are spending your time. Try this for a couple of days and be honest with yourself afterwards, is the time you are spending doing your everyday activities really the best use of your time? I am not saying that you should feel guilty for sitting down and relaxing, we all need to recharge, but binge watching the last three years of a television show on Netflix my not be a really beneficial investment of such a precious commodity.

Spend your times wisely, once it is gone, it is gone…forever.