People will plan a 2-week vacation to
the minute detail - and in most cases the vacations go great - because
they were mapped out and put to paper, The sad commentary is most people
will plan out their vacations, but not their life. Have you ever heard
the expression "Plan your work, then work your plan"? The sad
thing is that when most people hear that, they say to themselves,
"What plan?" This is the time of year when everyone should see
themselves at a crossroads that can go in the following directions:
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In Circles
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Backwards
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Forwards
What will account for the difference
in direction? A clear-cut goal for the forthcoming year and an action
plan to back it up. In the movie "Alice in Wonderland", Alice
comes to the fork in the road and is wondering which way should she go -
to the left or to the right. A voice comes from a large tree next to her
(which is the Cheshire Cat) asking her, "Where are you trying to
go?" To which Alice replied, "I don't know."
The cat responds, "Well, then it
doesn't matter whether you go left or right." The problem is not a
lack of time, it is a lack of direction. Whether you are a millionaire,
or a pauper, we all have the same amount of time in a day. Time is the
great equalizer.
Imagine there is a bank which credits
your account each morning with $86,400.00. It carries over no balance
from day to day, allows you to keep no cash on hand, and every evening
cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the
day. What would you do? Spend every cent, of course.
Well, everyone has such a bank. Its
name is TIME. Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every
night it writes off as lost whatever of this you have failed to invest
to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.
Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the records
of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.
There is no going back. There is no drawing against
"tomorrow". You must live in the present, from today's
deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness
and success. The clock is running. Make the most of today.
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