Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

"Time is more valuable than money, you can get more money, but you can not get more time." ~ Jim Rohn

"Never let yesterday use up today." ~ Richard H. Nelson

“Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.” ~ Anthony Sunny Kunneth

Though you all know how limited your lives are in the time-space continuum, you sometimes act like you don’t know the value of time. You use words like spend, kill or waste when you speak of how you while away the finite number of hours in each day. Yes, I am talking of Time. It is arguably our most valuable


commodity. Unlike treasured gems, precious metals and any other prized possessions, time can’t be hoarded, collected, earned, or bought with hard work, money, dignity or our soul. It slips away whether or not we choose to pack meaning into it. Use it or lose it, so goes the saying. Guard well those spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life. Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live after wasting their precious time. Before they know it, time runs out. If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish more. Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn’t equate with anything.

Life is made of small pleasures. The chat you have at the breakfast table with your loved ones. A moment spent touching or talking with a friend. Taking a vacation or helping a friend who is in dire need, are the small pleasures in life. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don’t have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don’t mean anything. Success is how you collect your minutes effectively for your own good. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, and then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn’t equate… Life is made of small pleasures. We must use time as a tool to achieve our goals in life, not as a crutch.

Life is all about timing…the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable…attainable. It’s all about timing. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don’t have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don’t mean anything. This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which can put your time to best use. It is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it efficiently and creatively to get the real worth of it before it melts into oblivion. Doesn't Yesterday's time look like a canceled check; tomorrow's time a promissory note; today's time like the only cash you have with you? So spend it wisely.

Use it wisely my dear friends, and do not let others steal it from YOU. Remember that how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. And still better to know that “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.”