Ticking away…Don Henley wrote “Time time ticking, ticking away.” Pink Floyd also wrote about time, “Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day…”. Jackson Browne wrote in the song The Pretender, “They say in the end its the wink of an eye”

As I sit here I was thinking how sporting events let me know also how quickly the time goes. Super Bowl time? Bye bye January. Daytona 500 completed? means good-bye to February! March? It must be the TPC in Ponte Vedra… Stay with golf, The Masters? Adios April… May will bring us the Indy 500 and on and on and on…all the way until we do it again, if we are lucky.

Time, that one commodity that we all have equal amounts of. Nobody gets 25 hours in a day or 62 seconds in a minute. One amount for all. No exceptions to THAT rule…it is what you do with it that counts. How do you balance your world of time? How do you generate all of the things you need in your time?

Most people head right to earning, money and acquiring wealth when it comes to time. I bet that was in the back of your mind when you started reading this, it actually was in the back of mine when I started writing it. Things change. Time changes us.

How much time, quality time, did you spend with your children this week? As much as you did at work? How much quality time did you spend with your parents, your siblings? Did your daughter call and you said you were too busy to talk? We all get the same amount of time, no exceptions to that rule, right? How do you utilize yours?

How much time did you spend improving your health this week? Today? Yesterday? Last month? Could you take five minutes and do 30 push ups? 5 push ups? If you did would you be better off than if you didn’t? Why? Why not?

What compels a parent to tell a child, “I don’t have time to talk”, and then goes back to watching their recorded Netflix show that they have been binge watching for five years? You can go back and watch that recorded show later, your child will only be that exact age on that day ONCE…TIME, a commodity we all share equally! I should add, in the moment, because not all of us get the same amount over a lifetime.

May 10th, 2023! Time! There was a tv show on from 1957 to 1962, The Tales of Wells Fargo, I was too young to remember it or watch it. I found it on INSP channel, and have perused a few episodes, fun and nostalgic. What startled me is to see when the first showing ran of each episode. Dates like 5/07/57 or 6/24/57…the first is 2 days after my now deceased sister Cathy had her 8th birthday. The other is 49 years to the day before I married my wife… TIME

Today I am going to think about time and how I use it. I get the same amount you do, I need to do a better job of utilizing it. To find the correct blend of work, family, health and my time. The correct blend for me, that is important, it is YOUR use of YOUR time. MY use of MY time. We all get the same amount, use it wisely!

RTG