Time Is All We Have
Time is limited correct? I mean, there are only 24 hrs in a day. Some of those 24 hours are needed to sleep and get your body properly rested for another day if you’re lucky enough to wake up.
Stop.
Most of you read that last line “…if you’re lucky enough to wake up” and didn’t think another thing about it. If you do not give thanks every single day that you are given an enormous gift to wake up and spend time with people you love, then you need to begin doing just that. I pinch myself everyday that I am living the life I dreamed of since I was 8 years old. Beautiful wife, healthy children, not a slave to money or work - just trying to add as much value to the world as I can for as long as I can.
So back to the time analogy.
Let’s assume you sleep 8 hours a day, some more-some less. That leaves 16 hours to impact the universe around you. That sounds like such a short period of time, why would anyone waste that precious time doing things that don’t matter or they don’t enjoy?
“But Sam, I can’t have money, love life and be happy, that’s impossible.”
That’s what I used to believe too, so I know from where you are coming from. I used to think that it was normal to rush out the door for work to get to meetings that didn’t matter. Miss my kids waking up so I could have a cup of coffee with stressed out corporate slaves with blackberry’s clipped to their belt.
I was just like you. I was so much like you it would scare the hell out of you if I described an average day. But one day it all changed. I decided to begin living life. Living each day for the gift it was, not listening to negative-know-it-alls going nowhere. Not accepting that because someone had a title different than mine, that gave him the right to make decisions for me. You are a special and unique individual with an unbelievable gift to give to others. It may be the gift of encouragement or the gift of a great personality or service. But unfortunately the people who could benefit from your gifts are being robbed because you don’t have the confidence to step up and stand on your dream. You don’t have the TIME.
The best life EVER is waiting for you. Today it begins. Are you going to go for it, or are you going to stay beaten down by your master who wants to keep you from doing what you love? Are you going to give the people around you your gifts? Your gifts would be defined as the things you love to do and are very good at doing. These gifts enhance the lives of other people because they don’t have these same gifts and would be blessed to have you in their life, but you don’t have the TIME.
What if I never made that decision to share my gift of speaking and motivation? What if Sam Crowley said “Yea, you’re right boss - I’ll just settle. Even though you have never dared to be great, I should just listen to you because of your title. I accept mediocrity and the death sentence that goes with it.”
Never. Never could I have robbed so many people of the blessings I have been given to share.
And neither should you.
Sam
