Imagine you had a bank
account that deposited $86,400 each morning.
The account 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 dollar each day!
We all have such a bank. Its name is Time.
Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off,
as lost, whatever time you have failed to use wisely.
It carries over no
balance from day to day. It allows no overdraft so you can’t borrow against
yourself or use more time than you have.
Each day, the account
starts fresh. Each night, it destroys an unused time. If you fail to use the
day’s deposits, it’s your loss and you can’t appeal to get it back.
There is never any borrowing time. You can’t take a loan out on
your time or against someone else’s.
The time you have is the
time you have and that is that.
Time management is yours
to decide how you spend the time, just as with money you decide how you spend
the money. It is never the case of us not having enough time to do things, but
the case of whether we want to do them and where they fall in our priorities.