Time Wasted is Time Lost, Never to be Regained.
I have found that the simplest thing to do in life is waste time. It happens because we seldom realise that we even waste time and time doesn’t care. After all, it keeps moving not caring about those who utilise it or those who do not.
We wake up every morning and the first thing that comes to mind is to check tweets and other social media messages we may have missed from the previous day.
By then we realise that we have spent a few hours checking tweets, we rush into the bath and without breakfast, most of the time rush off to work.
Once we arrive at work, we spend about 30 minutes exchanging pleasantries or talking about Lionel Messi (God deliver me from that) and how Arsenal keeps losing her matches
Then we spend hours looking at emails and then work perhaps for an hour and by afternoon, we have strolled to grab some lunch.
We check more emails because the food we eat sometimes doesn’t keep us in the mental state to achieve more at work and soon we are home, looking at the TV and perhaps watching sports before bedtime.
My Life was like this at some point until I reflected and saw:
- How Broke I was becoming because I wasn’t applying myself properly to work,
- How IAPHL Nigeria Chapter Leadership suffered from attention,
- How the choir wasn’t growing from my end because I was not playing my part well
- How my children missed out on several things I should have been teaching,
- How we mismanaged the company because I wasn’t providing the right leadership
- How I was called unreliable because I said Yes to everything and sometimes Jammed things together because I did not make time to plan etc.
I have found that we never have ideas about how bad time-wasting can be until we are almost at the end of our lives or our functional lives and I am fortunate to be redeeming mine to some extent now.
You can get on the train now and redeem time knowing that at the end of our lives, we will surely give an account of how we spent time.
BE TIME CONSCIOUS.
