Precious Commodity

I remember a jingle I use to hear on Spanish radio “El tiempo es oro y el que lo pierde, pierde un tesoro” (the rhyme is lost in the translation): “Time is gold and he who loses it, loses a great treasure.”

We can say that time is the coin of life and only you can determine how it will be spent. If you are not careful with your time, someone will come and spend your treasure.

There is no doubt that there are only 24 hours in a day; and no matter how hard we try we will never add another minute to our day. After today is done, it is gone forever.

Have you ever sat down to manage the minutes in your life?

There are exactly 1440 minutes in a day, no more, no less. If we are going to get anything accomplished today, these are the 1440 minutes we have to work with.

Subtract 440 minutes for sleeping (if we are lucky about 7.3 hours), which leaves us with 1000 optimal minutes each day. It is these 1000 precious minutes that we will use to build our life, our love… our future.

Ghandi once said, “learn as if you would live forever, live as you would die tomorrow.” When we imagine today being our last day, those minutes would be truly precious, wouldn’t they? What would we not do for more clarity, for more focus and more direction with our life?

What would we not do or give for one more day to LOVE.

In our human time line, time only subtracts… it never adds.

Daisy Says: Milestones are lived one moment at a time.