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Time Starved And Minute Foolish
By Will Turner
We all do it. We complain that there isn’t enough time in the day. There’s too much going on. How can we possibly get it all done? We couldn’t possibly add one more thing to our list. And then we do.
We get things done when they are important enough to us. I recently got a call from my mother who told me that my father had been rushed to the hospital for congestive heart failure. When I got the call, I had a full day planned out, but I still made it to the hospital for a long visit. Obviously, it was important. We’ve all been in similar situations.
And certainly when we’re dealing with a life or death situation with ourselves, our families and our friends, we are good at doing the things that matter most. Thankfully, most days we’re not faced with such grave situations. Unfortunately, it’s the lack of immediate rewards or dire consequences in our daily activities that cause us to drift and be poor time stewards.
If there is a lesson in all of this, I suppose it’s to determine what matters most each and every day and each and every moment based on its long-term impact. Create a sense of urgency around those things that matter most and do them to the exclusion of things that don’t. As Ben Franklin once said, “Don’t squander time for it’s the stuff life is made of.”
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