What do we do for 84,000 hours in a lifetime? How much time do you sleep over your life? What amount of time do you spend versus invest in watching TV/Computer/Tablet/
Phone/Games? Life is a gift we have been given and most of us will be given 630,720 hours to live. We fill our lives with "stuff" and let everyone know how really busy we are. Evidently this busyness we have developed hasn't helped us enjoy life. The COVID Relief Tracking Study states, Americans are the unhappiest they have been in 50-years. Only 14% of Americans claim to be very happy.
Instead of spending time shouldn't we think in terms of investing our time? Investments become assets and expenditures become liabilities. We don't find as much enjoyment in the overburdening liabilities like we do our assets. Where we have the most time is where we need to make the greatest investment. Our work, relationships, and sleep are three places you will live most of your lives. It stands to reason then if we are to live we can and need to enjoy our lives, the lives of others, and God himself. Choices we make are the futures we live. Today's choices are tomorrows joy (asset) or sorrow (liability). Do you want to live in a future where your investments create an enjoyable life or do we want to see those debilitating debts (expenses/choices) entangle our future?
The best investment we can make is not just in ourselves but in those we invest or spend most of our time with? For example, the lives of our family and our coworkers. It is impact that makes significance. It is in the significance that brings the most enjoyment. Four ways you and I can make the greatest impact and gain the most significance in our lives and in the lives we invest in are; listening, learning, growing, and teaching. We spend when we over indulge our time in things that bring us little long lasting value. For example: streaming and playing games for hours in a day. I realize we need a little break and recreation is important but the time we spend we never get back. Too much of a "good" thing can often times produce a greater "negative" thing. What you do today is gone except for the investments you made. Those will last. You will never be sorry for investing in your marriage, your children, or your employees. The time you give to people and invest in them will forever be appreciated and valued and pay dividends. It was not easy raising four children but it is a joy to see what they have become. Your employees are people first not employees. Invest in them too and you will never regret it.
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