"The Hourglass of Time" (from my book)
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"All my possessions for a moment of time."—Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Queen of England
"Time is that precious commodity we have all been blessed with.
How much time is inside our own personal hourglass no one knows.
... The ninety-year-old has already been blessed with over 32,870 days.
But here is the problem with that hourglass. Once that personal
hourglass is almost empty, there is nothing that person can do. No king,
president, billionaire, or peasant has ever been able to add one second of
time to his own personal hourglass. Once it’s empty, life on earth comes
to an end for that individual. The hereafter, as it is often called, and in
which many people believe, will then commence.
No, we cannot buy time, but we can manage it and avoid squandering
the time we have been blessed with."
"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number
of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo,
Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American author
"The average person wastes so many hours per week it should be a
crime. Did you ever take inventory? I say “inventory” because, as with a
shopkeeper, those hours you have been blessed with are yours to cherish.
When you waste them, it is as if they have been stolen from you for
good. But you are the real thief of your own wasted time.
Let’s take account of time and how it can be maximized. Assuming
we get up at seven o’clock each day to go to work, what if we were to
get up at 6:45 instead? Those fifteen additional minutes would equal
ninety-one hours per year. That time could be spent on exercising,
self-development reading, writing, or other self-help training. Do not
discount fifteen minutes per day. Fifteen minutes’ exercise could mean
the difference of several pounds per year and a firmer, trimmer body.
Next, we may take an hour a day to leave work, go out somewhere,
and pretty much waste the time on lunch. I would encourage everyone
to take a bag lunch from home and invest half an hour in reading,
writing, walking, and so forth. There alone you will have found about
one hundred fifteen additional hours per year. What could be done in
those one hundred fifteen hours? That capsule of time could result in a
newly written book within approximately two years of such a half-hour
daily snippet. Or you could have read forty new books. Or walked some
two hundred thirty miles. Imagine that! C-J. Carinci
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"All my possessions for a moment of time."—Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Queen of England
"Time is that precious commodity we have all been blessed with.
How much time is inside our own personal hourglass no one knows.
... The ninety-year-old has already been blessed with over 32,870 days.
But here is the problem with that hourglass. Once that personal
hourglass is almost empty, there is nothing that person can do. No king,
president, billionaire, or peasant has ever been able to add one second of
time to his own personal hourglass. Once it’s empty, life on earth comes
to an end for that individual. The hereafter, as it is often called, and in
which many people believe, will then commence.
No, we cannot buy time, but we can manage it and avoid squandering
the time we have been blessed with."
"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number
of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo,
Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American author
"The average person wastes so many hours per week it should be a
crime. Did you ever take inventory? I say “inventory” because, as with a
shopkeeper, those hours you have been blessed with are yours to cherish.
When you waste them, it is as if they have been stolen from you for
good. But you are the real thief of your own wasted time.
Let’s take account of time and how it can be maximized. Assuming
we get up at seven o’clock each day to go to work, what if we were to
get up at 6:45 instead? Those fifteen additional minutes would equal
ninety-one hours per year. That time could be spent on exercising,
self-development reading, writing, or other self-help training. Do not
discount fifteen minutes per day. Fifteen minutes’ exercise could mean
the difference of several pounds per year and a firmer, trimmer body.
Next, we may take an hour a day to leave work, go out somewhere,
and pretty much waste the time on lunch. I would encourage everyone
to take a bag lunch from home and invest half an hour in reading,
writing, walking, and so forth. There alone you will have found about
one hundred fifteen additional hours per year. What could be done in
those one hundred fifteen hours? That capsule of time could result in a
newly written book within approximately two years of such a half-hour
daily snippet. Or you could have read forty new books. Or walked some
two hundred thirty miles. Imagine that! C-J. Carinci
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