Do you have the time?

Who among us could not use more time?  We talk about time ~ all the time.  We say we don't have enough time, we are out of time, if only we had more time, time is running out.  We talk so much about time, not realizing we are wasting time talking about our lack of time. We say things like I would start a home-based business if I had the time.  I would exercise if I had the time.  I would get my masters, grow a garden, paint, quilt, run, read - all if I had the time.  We treat time like something we cannot afford, like something that costs too much for us to have it.  Yet time is always with us, we are always in it.  No matter what we are doing we are using time.  It's how we use time that matters.

I love the saying that what we focus on increases.  So if we focus on the lack of time, guess what?  We have a lack of time.  But if we focus on creating time to do the things that are important to us then we'll have more time.  It means not wasting time, squandering time, or letting time slip by.  When we take action to do things, suddenly time is our friend.  I can get a lot done in a short amount of time if I stay focused and work hard.  I can sometimes multi-task with vigor because I am energized to accomplish my tasks.  So often I can do more in an hour, because I am focused, than I may have done all day.

I work full time in a job outside my home but I also come home at the end of the day to work on my home-based business.  I schedule time for my business and stick to it.  I don't waste my time idly in front of the tv.  I choose to use my time wisely to create more of what I want in my life.  Dave Ramsey says that to be successful you have to "live like no one else so that later on you can live like no one else."  What you do with time today will determine what you can do with time later on.  That simple phrase of Ramsey's changed my view on what it takes to be successful in life, financially and otherwise.  You have got to do what it takes today, now, in this moment, in the time you are in, so that later you can use time the way you want to for other things in your life.

Face it, if you waste your time hoping you will win the lottery while you watch yet another tv show, come this time next year you will most likely still be doing the same thing.  And still complaining that you never have enough time.   How you spend your time now will always determine how you spend your time later on.  Take time, make time, create time.  It's up to you.


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