YOUR ALLOTMENT OF TIME

Have you ever found yourself wishing there were more hours in the day in which you could work? Probably so; most people wish this at one time or another. Between careers, household chores, taking care of children, and wanting a little bit of peace and quiet for yourself, no doubt you've found bedtime arriving too soon on more than one occasion.

But has it ever occurred to you that people all around the earth are equal in the fact that they all get the same amount of time every single day? This may be the one constant that everyone shares! You have 24 hours just like your boss, your neighbor, the President, your favorite celebrity, and oh yes, that person that you admire because they always seem to be getting things done effectively.

Realizing that your time is limited and that you have the same amount of time as everyone else should help you to better understand the importance of effective time management. Why is this? Let's again compare time to money. People that are struggling financially often assume that if they just made a few dollars more than they do today, then they wouldn't be struggling and would have all their bills paid, and would enjoy their life.

Of course there are those that struggle because they truly live in poverty and this is not what we're considering here. The point is that while it's tempting to think that the answer to money problems is to have more money, this isn't always the case. Think of those that have literally millions of dollars to their name and still wind up declaring bankruptcy or facing other serious financial problems. No doubt some celebrity names come to mind. And if these people who are making millions and millions of dollars every year still face money problems, what is the issue?

Obviously the answer is that it's the way they manage their money. Having more money won't help if you spend it on useless items that lose value and if you don't save for the future as well. Those celebrities and others that have plenty of money coming in but who face bankruptcy and foreclosure and these issues have not managed the money they have.

So it is with time. If you had 50 hours in the day or even 100, who is to say that you would accomplish more in that time? If you haven't learned to manage the 24 you're allotted, getting more time probably won't make much difference in maximizing your schedule and achieving your goals.

ONCE IT’S GONE…

One big consideration when it comes to wasting time is that once it's gone, it's gone. When you waste money you can earn more, when you waste food you can buy more, and so on. But with time, there is no cycle of it that buys back the time that's lost.

Yes, you will have another 24 hours tomorrow but everyone's life is finite; the 24 hours you've wasted today is being subtracted from the total number of hours you'll have in your life overall. You cannot get those hours back the way you can replenish your bank account when you purchase something useless.

This too is why time is so precious and so valuable. And this is why wasting it is probably one of the worst things a person can do! There is no turning back the clock and there is no way to regain that time that is gone.