Whatever way you learned it, if you have an extra hour today, how do you want to spend it?
What if, today, someone gave you 21 extra days this year to do exactly what you wanted?
What if you suddenly had a choice to spend your most valuable asset- the only asset that is perishable, time-limited and can not be reclaimed- in whatever way you wanted?
How would you choose to SPEND this most valuable asset- your life’s time?
What if I told you that, by choosing to reallocate one hour a day, you could generate 21 extra days of purposeful living this year? You can. And the choice is yours starting today.
Let’s start with the basic time chunk.
What if you had one extra hour each day?
Think of it as a most precious, recently gained resource, one with limits- literal time limits.
What would you do? How would you SPEND that extra hour?
On the annual ‘fall back, spring ahead’ of Daylight Savings Time, the choice may seem easy- especially if you are sleep-deprived and sleeping that extra hour away is your first response.
But what if you really had an entire hour more each day, an hour that could not be gobbled up by work or by activities of daily living such as laundry or shuttling parents or grandchildren or kids or pets around?
How would you spend that most precious gift, that extra lifetime?
Start at the beginning- would you spend your extra hour in the morning-
in reflection under the covers,
or in meditative pose,
or walking in the woods with your pet,
or jogging on your treadmill,
or sharing a cup of coffee or tea with another person or group,
or dancing alone in your room,
or …?
How about midmorning? Or Midday? Or Mid-afternoon?
Would you purposefully stop whatever you do each day to take a midmorning, midday, or mid-afternoon break from the hustle and bustle?
And, if so, what would you do with that time?
Would you spend it solo or with others?
Or would you wait until day’s end and spend the time contemplating on what had passed, planning on how to approach the next day, in connection with those you love, learning how to cook an international dish, or working it out at the gym building heart and brain and bone cells to be in it for the long run?
Take a moment of today’s extra Daylight Savings hour to consider this with care:
if you had one extra hour each and every day, how would you choose to spend it?
Use the power of visualization to feel the true impact of each choice.
Picture each and every option vividly- as if you were living it.
Feel it in your heart- the short-term and long-term advantages to each choice.
What would you choose if you could choose just one of the options?
Now, here is the change-your-life challenge:
Can you choose one activity, or a few, that take up an hour of your time each day, activities that waste your precious resource of your life’s time, activities that seem urgent but really are not all that important in the bigger scheme of things- which is your life?
Would you be willing to give up these time-wasters and replace them with the choice that you would make if you had that extra hour today- and tomorrow- and every day?
Picture, again vividly, what that would look and feel like- to trash the time-wasters and to commit to this other choice that is yours, your choice about how to use your most valuable resource, you life’s time.
Add it up-
One week is 7 HOURS- 420 minutes of doing what you want, something that you determined to be valuable and a valuable use of your life’s time!!!
One month is about 30 hours or 1800 minutes!!! What could you do with 1800 minutes?
One year is 365 hours (or 366 if it’s a leap year) for 21,900 minutes (make that 21,960 on a leap year).
What if you had 365 hours of luxury time- doing what you wanted to do- added up, if you sleep an average of seven hours a night, leaving 17 waking hours, 365 hours equates to almost 21 and a half days of waking time.
What if today you could give yourself 21 extra days this year to do exactly what you wanted- to spend your most valuable asset, the only asset that is perishable, time-limited and can not be reclaimed- in whatever way you wanted? How would you choose to SPEND this most valuable asset- your life’s time?
By choosing to reallocate one hour a day, you hold the power to generate 21 extra days of purposeful living this year. The choice is yours starting today.
Are you willing to commit to giving up some of your nonessential activities to gain that extra hour of doing what you want during the time that you still have on this journey of life that is composed of only one resource- your life’s time???
Choose change to change your life today. Trash the nonessentials and pack what you want to do and to take on this wonderful journey that is life.
Looking forward,
Dr. Pam Brill
posted by mswhyte
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