We hope everyone has a great day with their friends and family. I stopped in to share a story for inspiration. We're doing a wellness program at work currently to help people realize where they are spending their time and how they can rearrange priorities to get more time for family, health and less stress! This was a motivational story we used and I think it applies greatly to Thanksgiving - reminding us to be thankful for every day!
Imagine that you had won the grand prize in a contest - each morning your bank would deposit $86,400.00 into your private account for your use, and there were only two stipulations:
1. Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you. You may not simply transfer money into some other account. You may only spend it. Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $86,400.00 for that day.
2. The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say, it's over, the game is over! It can close the account and you will not receive a new one.
What would you personally do? You would buy anything and everything you wanted, right? Not only for yourself, but for all people you love, right? Even for people you don't know, because you couldn't possibly spend it all on yourself, right? You would try to spend every cent, use it all, right?
Although this is a ficticious contest, the theory behind it is real. Each of us is in possession of such a magical bank. We just can't seem to see it. The "magical bank" is time! Each morning we awaken to receive 86,400 seconds as a gift of life, and when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is NOT credited to us. What we haven't lived up that day is forever lost. Yesterday is forever gone. Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time without warning. What will you do with your 86,400 seconds? Enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think.
Keep this story in mind as you evaluate your personal time management, and what goals you have for "spending" your time.
Finally, a peek at Brode in his Thanksgiving checklist shirt!
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