Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!
Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against the “tomorrow.”
You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success! The clock is ticking. Make the most of today. To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade. To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby. To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper. To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet. To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train. To realize the value of ONE-SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident. I love this parable about TIME, it puts everything into prospective in one short, simple story.
Use your seconds wisely, make them count! Use them for yourself — for peace and relaxation; use them to help others — to share love and compassion; spend them with those you love! Treasure them but do not waste them, because you cannot get them back. When you join us at Love Rally, you are only spending about 96 seconds a day! That’s less than .12% of your seconds! Less than 1% !!! When you share a smile you are only spending about 2 or 3 seconds — or about .003% of your daily seconds!
To join Love Rally, fill out the form in the sidebar over there… it will only use up about the same amount of seconds as a smile. Thank you ~ and enjoy your seconds today!
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Wow! You have really made me realize how I throw away minutes all the time! I need to work to make the count! Thanks for the inspiration.
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sheila Reply:
August 13th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
@Caroline @SmartyPantsMama,
Thank you SO much for taking the time to stop over, I really appreciate it!
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I joined today, and I’m sure I waste so much time every day because I’m an impossibly incurable flitter.
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sheila Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at 7:18 am
@blueviolet @ A Nut in a Nutshell,
Thanks for joining up! We’ve got a September Rally that you will love. Details coming soon!
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wow..this was some post…i am sure my few minutes were not wasted when i was reading this blog…very inspirational…good work done by you people..best of luck
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sheila Reply:
August 20th, 2011 at 6:36 am
@Israr,
Thank you for taking the time to read my post and for your nice comments! Drop by next week, we have a new rally starting soon!
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This was so beautifully written, ye of many talents.
I love your examples of the various increments of time passages. I sure remmeber the days I had to wait a whole hour to see Jim when we were dating!
Ahhh, I think I just used 1800 recent seconds very wisely, and hopefully to spread some love, by making and posting a sidebar button on my humble blog for LoveRally.org. It’s so cute, I think, love the heart stamp.
xo
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sheila Reply:
August 26th, 2011 at 5:22 am
@Jannie Funster,
Thanks Jannie! I love your cool buttons! And thanks for the 1800 Seconds!
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And here’s another 20 seconds! Because you are Uber-special to me. And many.
xo
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