Time
Time
is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it.
You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can
never get it back.” H. Mackay
Time, something which is precious and irreplaceable. The
most important investment we can make is in ourselves, our health,
our time, our happiness so you
must make
sure you look after yourself first.
Life
gets busy and humans love routines, day in day out we choose to go
about our day the way we know how, the way that 'works' for us. But
upon reflection is it working? Do you find yourself with not enough
time left for you, do you lack enough sleep, have that unfinished
project or still haven’t got round to booking that holiday. Are you
always saying 'I'd like to but I don't have time'. That line is
usually no more than an excuse that you don't want to MAKE time, you
are putting other people/things first before yourself which is a mistake.
It's important to organise and manage your time effectively there are
many ways to incorporate things within your day, for example, going
for a walk on your lunch break, reading work materials, or books on
the bus, or applying nail cuticle oil while watching the television.
These things may seem small but it allows you to utilise time and do
more of what you want but don't think you have time for.
Friends,
family, the media, even pets are all demanding our precious time, day
in day out we are inundated with requests for a little bit of our
time and too often we oblige them requests without thinking about
ourselves. We feel bad if we don't give some of our time to someone
else its human nature and we are all guilty of it, but maybe it's
time to start looking after time and managing it better after
all its your time.
There
are 1440 minutes in a day, each minute is a minute you will never get
back. It's amazing to think we have a specific amount of time we have
to spend each day, we can't save, store or keep it we must spend it.
Taking
this into account imagine each minute as a credit, every 24 hours you
are only given 1440 credits that you must use to live your life, a
credit that you can't keep you have to spend. Surely you wouldn't waste a single credit on something you didn't want, you wouldn't want to use credits on arguments, people you don't like, things that
are bad for you, so in that case it sounds easy enough. But those
credits represent your whole day, you have to use those credits for
essentials such as eating, sleeping, drinking as well as brushing
your teeth, shopping, work, socialising, showering and so on, now
that's a lot of things to do and only 1440 credits to use!
But
it does highlight the reality of how little time we have and
regardless of how we spend our day that time will pass by. You do
only have 1440 minutes a day to live your best possible life, maybe
by looking at time in such a way it will make you realise how
precious your credits are and how you should use them carefully to
achieve what you want without wasting them on things/people that are
not making you happy or the most effective use of your time.
Taking
time out for yourself is important whether its a few minutes of quiet
meditation at the end of the day, a long walk at lunch or an hour
long massage it's amazing the difference and clarity it can bring.
One
of our favorite ways to relax and enjoy our time is with a massage
(of course :-)). A massage is a great way to relax the body and mind,
whether you like to vent throughout your treatment to your therapist
or lie with your own thoughts drifting to your own place of
relaxation that simple hour of indulgence is the perfect moment you
to enjoy for yourself. Beneficial for your mind, body and soul. A
good use of time!
You
are spending some of your precious time now reading this post and I
hope it is a reminder to appreciate your time and take control of it,
so the next time your phone rings and its 'that' friend or the dogs
barking or you feel the urge to press the facebook icon and scroll
down the timeline reading about other people's lives, stop, and start
living yours. Whether its creating, or building, researching,
watching movies or simply lighting some candles running a warm bath
do what you enjoy.
Everything
we do in life is a choice, we choose what we eat, wear, who we
associate ourselves with, how we spend out TIME. It's your choice,
its your time, it's precious don't waste it, spend every minute doing
exactly what you want to do, whether that's lying on a beach or
building an empire spend it on the most important person YOU!
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