Do you waste your time or invest it?
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Time is the one thing that is equal for all of us. You can be rich or poor, smart or dumb and it doesn’t matter as you still only get 24 hours in each day.
Most of the time, we waste our time and energy worrying and thinking about things like how to win or make more money and how to live a better life. Well, when we do this we usually forget about the most important thing – the time to live our life in. A wise man will always tell you: “You can always make more money, but you can never buy more time”.
Do you pay attention to how you invest your time? And the word “investment” is the true because the way we choose to spend our time is a true investment in ourselves and our own lives. Are you using it doing something that will help educate yourself?
Lots of us spend hours in front of the TV, or spend a lot of time browsing the net with no purpose whatsoever. Some of us even try to steal more time with the cost of many healthy sleep hours. If you wake up earlier in the morning just to smoke a few cigarettes and to fill your self up with coffee so you won’t feel sleepy it doesn’t mean you won quality time. (I am very guilty of this my self.) If you don’t work efficiently and just spend more hours doing less that is not a good use of your time.
If you are working and saying things like: “I’m just counting the hours to go home” or “I wish it were Friday” on a Monday and so on. These are just signs that you are wasting your time. If you organize your time efficiently and if you choose to do only activities that motivate you, then you will find yourself able to work everyday without feeling tired or sleepy.
Any time that you just let time pass you by think about the saying ”Carpe Diem” – it has a great meaning for your everyday life, it means “Live the day” or better said “Organize your day”. Make more time to analyze the way you invest or waste your time. And never forget that you can’t tell anything about tomorrow so “Carpe Diem!”
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May 6th, 2006 at 10:43 am
This is a very good topic.
While time may seem endless, it is indeed a finite commodity.
It is very valuable to spend time learning this medium as it changes so quickly, but at some point you just have to pick a direction and get started.
You can always adjust as you learn more.
Six months of consistent activity to find out that you really don’t care for a program is still more valuable than six months of bouncing around looking at everything that comes across your desk.
May 6th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Joyce,
I have to agree. Even the wrong action is better than doing nothing because at least you can learn something from the wrong action.
Knowledge is absolutely worthless without it being put to use.
May 6th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
Thank you for the article, that’s really to the point. I mean there’s a great difference between spending or wasting your time - whatever is more appropriate - and investing it. As soon as you start to realise that you OUGHT to invest it, and get fruitful results, you will succeed.
For me personally right words and definitions have always been important.
It’s like you are suddenly dawned, and on this sensational realisation you clearly know what to do.
Just have a look:
I am a bank.
I need investments to work well and make profit.
In this case money (=time) will work and bring me success and results.
In case it’s in my pocket - it’s as liquid ..as water…You’ll waste it..
One more important thing: whatever you do, do with sense. Always think what can be regarded as positive experience or some new and fresh ideas to think of , what’s the real purpose and aim of what you are doing. Any thing, any action can be analysed from this point of view.
Well, I think it’s like this:)
May 7th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Excellent article Michael !
Every day I see all sorts of people in the casino wasting both their money and their time ( that’s where I work). There’s nothing wrong going to the casino with your friends once in a while having fun and enjoying the weekend but when I see the same people every single day I makes me think for a second, why are these people here, don’t they have better things to do with their time rather than playing poker.
Time is all we have so I will make the most of it to better my life and others.