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Your Daily Bank Account

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Your Daily Bank Account

Mid Week Musings #205

Alan Jones PhD FRSA
May 10, 2023
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Your Daily Bank Account

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Imagine you had a bank account that deposited $86,400 each morning.

The account carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day.

What would you do?

Draw out every pound each day?j

We all have such a bank.

Its name is Time.

Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.

Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever time you have failed to use wisely. It carries over no balance from day to day. It allows no overdraft so you can’t borrow against yourself or use more time than you have. Each day, the account starts fresh. Each night, it destroys an unused time. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, it’s your loss and you can’t appeal to get it back.

There is never any borrowing time.

You can’t take a loan out on your time or against someone else’s.

The time you have is the time you have and that is that.

Time management is yours to decide how you spend the time, just as with money you decide how you spend the money. It is never the case of us not having enough time to do things, but the case of whether we want to do them and where they fall in our priorities.

It’s all too easy to regret what we have or have not done in the past - but that can’t be changed.

It’s all too easy to worry about tomorrow, but worry overwhelms the ‘now’ and the ‘nose’ is the only time we can take action to ease tomorrows path.

Alan /|\

“Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” – Bill Keane

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