Posted on 03. May, 2010 by lollydaskal in Blog, Leadership Development, Personal Development
Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each morning with $86,400, 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 cent, of course!
Well, everyone has such a bank. It's name is
time.
Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.
Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose.
It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.
Each day it opens a new account for you.
Each night it burns the records of the day.
If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.
There is no going back. There is no drawing against the tomorrow.
You must live in the present on today's deposits.
Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success!
The clock is running. Make the most of today.
To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a Silver Medal in the Olympics.
Treasure every moment that you have! And remember that time waits for no one.
Lead From Within: The clock is running. Make the most of today, every minute of every hour of every second.
And remember, time waits for no one.
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
Anon
Dorothy Dalton
14. Aug, 2010
Hi Lolly – love this concept – so simple, so resonant. If time was money – we would probably be more mindful about not frittering it away. Fabulous metaphor!
Lolly Daskal
14. Aug, 2010
A single day is enough to make a difference! Thank you Dorothy for visiting and commenting.
Lolly Daskal
14. Aug, 2010
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Cege
14. Aug, 2010
I love the simplicity of this message. I think we’ve become desensitized to the concept of time and how we interact with it. We’ve all just kind of accepted that we are busy busy bees, and that time doesn’t stand still for us. Translating time into actual $$ terms is a big wake-up call. What would people think if asked how much “money” they’d spent watching bad reality TV? Pretty scary for some I’d wager!
Theresa Bradley-Banta
16. Aug, 2010
Hi Lolly,
Oh, I really love this! To think… had you not taken a minute to follow on twitter, and I had not taken another minute to see who was connecting with me… well then.
Thanks for that. I’m really glad to have come to your blog – and I look forward to reading more!
Thank you,
Theresa
pedro
15. Sep, 2010
I never saw time by that angle, great. Congratulations.