How much time do you have left?
Can you believe it, today is the first day of 2005. Already. Every year seems to pass faster, and every year I ask myself, "where the hell did it all go?" Remember the whole "Y2K" nonsense? That was FIVE years ago, five! But it seems like it was just yesterday.
And, just about TWENTY years ago Ronald Reagan was inaugurated into his second term in office--and I remember that like it happened last year. As you get older, time begins to accelerate, and events begin to compress.
When I was a kid time passed oh-so-slowly. An hour wait was interminable for me. But as I got older, time began to speed up--a day was what an hour used to be, and now it seems a week is what an hour used to be.
As I think back to my college days, I remember what a span 4 ½ years appeared to be. And while it passed too quickly, I remember my time spent at UT (Texas) as a series of discreet events, with definite beginnings and endings. But as I think back to the last 4 ½ years (the same amount of time I spent in college), it seems as though events have become compressed, running into each other, with no true beginning or ending. If college was a blur, then the last 4 ½ years have been a time warp forward, stepping in at one event, and getting out at another, my mind left the residue of events gone by, if not the full memory.
Stephen King wrote about this in a short story, one I forget the name of. It was quite poignant, written from the point of view of an old man who'd reached the end of his days, who'd watched time suddenly get behind him, but not without a rich, fulfilling, yet too short life. He wrote that time started out seemingly infinite in childhood, then accelerated as you got older, suddenly decelerating to the same speed as childhood when you reached your final years. And then it was over.
Time is indeed the only truly finite resource we have, everything else, by comparison is infinite. Who you become, what you experience, and how you live your life is determined by how you spend the time that is given you. And when you're gone, what you're remembered for is how you spent your time and who you spent it with. Nothing more, nothing less.
The point of all of today's philosophy is to impress upon you how much little time you have left to accomplish the things you want to. Robert Ringer, the author of Winning Through Intimidation, makes the point that all of us have about "30 quality years" left... seems like a lot, until you break it down into months, meaning all we have is 360 months left, and if they all pass as fast as the last one did...!
So, my first piece of advice for 2005 to you is, if you're not getting the results you want, get off your behind and take action NOW. Not in a few minutes, not in an hour, not the next day, but now. Time passes so quickly now, so fast that the one day you decided to wait suddenly turns into ten years, and you have no idea how it happened. Don't squander the one truly limited resource you have, use it to give you everything you deserve... now!
Let's get to it...
Mr. X.
Group M Marketing
Kimble and Kennedy Publishing
And, just about TWENTY years ago Ronald Reagan was inaugurated into his second term in office--and I remember that like it happened last year. As you get older, time begins to accelerate, and events begin to compress.
When I was a kid time passed oh-so-slowly. An hour wait was interminable for me. But as I got older, time began to speed up--a day was what an hour used to be, and now it seems a week is what an hour used to be.
As I think back to my college days, I remember what a span 4 ½ years appeared to be. And while it passed too quickly, I remember my time spent at UT (Texas) as a series of discreet events, with definite beginnings and endings. But as I think back to the last 4 ½ years (the same amount of time I spent in college), it seems as though events have become compressed, running into each other, with no true beginning or ending. If college was a blur, then the last 4 ½ years have been a time warp forward, stepping in at one event, and getting out at another, my mind left the residue of events gone by, if not the full memory.
Stephen King wrote about this in a short story, one I forget the name of. It was quite poignant, written from the point of view of an old man who'd reached the end of his days, who'd watched time suddenly get behind him, but not without a rich, fulfilling, yet too short life. He wrote that time started out seemingly infinite in childhood, then accelerated as you got older, suddenly decelerating to the same speed as childhood when you reached your final years. And then it was over.
Time is indeed the only truly finite resource we have, everything else, by comparison is infinite. Who you become, what you experience, and how you live your life is determined by how you spend the time that is given you. And when you're gone, what you're remembered for is how you spent your time and who you spent it with. Nothing more, nothing less.
The point of all of today's philosophy is to impress upon you how much little time you have left to accomplish the things you want to. Robert Ringer, the author of Winning Through Intimidation, makes the point that all of us have about "30 quality years" left... seems like a lot, until you break it down into months, meaning all we have is 360 months left, and if they all pass as fast as the last one did...!
So, my first piece of advice for 2005 to you is, if you're not getting the results you want, get off your behind and take action NOW. Not in a few minutes, not in an hour, not the next day, but now. Time passes so quickly now, so fast that the one day you decided to wait suddenly turns into ten years, and you have no idea how it happened. Don't squander the one truly limited resource you have, use it to give you everything you deserve... now!
Let's get to it...
Mr. X.
Group M Marketing
Kimble and Kennedy Publishing
