“Okay. You’ve hooked me in with your enticing title. What now?”
Answer the question… What would you do?
“I’d probably quit my job and read your blog full time!”
That means a lot, thanks man!
“…And bill you for every minute it takes me to do so”
That should be quite the bill at the rate you read, but as long as you’re being productive, I guess?
Speaking of productivity, I recently received an interesting analogy about utilizing your time. It’s so good in fact, that I could not keep it to myself and since sharing is caring, I want you to imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400.
It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course?
Each of us has such a bank account. Its name is time. Every morning, it credits you with 86, 400 seconds. Every night it writes off as a loss, whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against “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!
So in the words of my good friend Billy Corgan & his band the Smashing Pumpkins,
“Today is the greatest day I’ve ever known. Can’t live for tomorrow, tomorrow’s much too long”
