A matter of time

It is amazing how time flies. This year is just a few weeks before it winds up. Indeed, time waits for no one. Time is the most perishable commodity that we have. If we do not use it it simply vanishes and can never be redeemed. Time is an equalizer- every human being has exactly the same amount allotted to them daily. Each one of us has twenty four hours a day to use as he or she likes.  Time does not dictate what it wants done but we determine what we want done with time. The currency of time can be spent

on virtually anything but at the end of the day the results of our investment of time will show how wise or foolish we have been. How we spend time will determine the outcomes of our lives.

None of us is getting younger so we need to do the right things at the right time with our time. There is always a right and a wrong time to do anything. Doing the wrong thing with our lives is outright foolishness and when we do the right thing at the wrong time we reduce the efficacy of that right thing. Wisdom demands doing the right thing at the right time.

We must discipline ourselves to do the right thing at the right time. There is a time to go to school. There is a time to prepare for our endeavors. There is family time. There is office fine. When we use time meant for something for something else we jeopardize other things. When we use the time of preparation to play we jeopardize our future manifestation. When we use family time for work we set ourselves up for a dysfunctional family.

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;”  Ecclesiastes 3:1-2

Time can never be recycled. Once time is spent it is gone forever. We need to learn to respect time because time is life.

“Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.” Alan Lakein

We measure our lives in time. We have a limited amount of time we can spend here. We do not have all the time to live. At a certain point our time here will end. We must respect time by using it wisely. Opportunities come in time and regret  usually is the product of not fully maximizing time.

A wasted life is simply an evidence of wasted time. Anyone who does not respect our time does not deserve to be given attention. The problem is many people do not place the right value on their time. They tend to take time for granted and allow it to be deployed to anything that comes along. We all have twenty-four hours daily and whoever will not allow us to maximize our time must be avoided. Anyone who wants to drag us to do the wrong things with our time does not love us and such a person must be related with with caution.

The right thing must be done at the right time. We must maximize time to get the right things done. We must not get into the rot of giving excuses.

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.” Lao Tzu

Time is transient and slippery so whenever we have time to get things done we must not let it slip.

“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” Philip Stanhope.

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