There
are 1440 minutes in each and every day, no more, no less. You have each minute
to use with wisdom and grace or to squander asleep at the wheel of your
destiny’s drive. How is it that one person can wake up in the morning (on
time), press forward toward perfection and promise, meet their daily goals and
end the day with a sense of accomplishment; while another will sleep the day
away, wake up, stretch and all the while wondering “where did the day go?”
Eight to 80, blind, crippled or crazy, all you get is 1440. Minutes cannot be
borrowed, bought, stolen, nor stored up. They can merely be used or abused. The
choice is ultimately yours. The true measure of success is how those minutes
are spent.
Let’s
establish that you must sleep, so allot 6 hours for that (no not 8 hours;
remember, you are trying to get to your goal. Sleep gets sacrificed.) That will
be 360 minutes. Now, allow 8 hours for work; that’s 480 minutes. This leaves
you 600 minutes. I am sure it seems like a lot, but in a blink of an eye it can
all be gone. Bathroom breaks, eating; moving from point A to B will take
another 3 hours or 180 minutes. Now you have 220 minutes to make your daily
dreams come true.
This
is where all the trouble begins. This is the moment when excuses become time
killers and dream “diverters.” “I’m tired, I can catch up tomorrow.” “I don’t
have enough time to finish what I have to do.”
Let’s be real. There are no excuses for not making the best of every
day. “Excuses are the tool of incompetence, they build a monument of nothing,
and those that specialize in them are seldom good for anything but excuses,
excuses, excuses.” I have spoken and lived by this for years.
