How Much We Value the Time in our Hand?

I live my life as if there is no tomorrow and try to do as many things as possible in one day. Many get astonished with my ability to multi-task and many complain about this frenzied activities and handling too many things as if stretching too far one's life. In fact, for many, who do not understand my ability to do multi-tasking and process the jobs in hand faster, my acts in a day seem to be "hasty" and I am constantly reminded that I am doing in haste, though I have considered various pros and cons before going ahead and doing what I have decided to do. The only difference is many a people, take longer time to complete their tasks in hand, which restricts their ability to handle too many things, while I finish the tasks in shorter time and hence have enough free time to think and do multi-tasks.

For me "Today" is a "Present" from God and must be utilized effectively to its fullest extent by doing everything possible during the day. There is a popular saying, "Yesterday is History", "Tomorrow is a Mystery" and "Today is a gift". That's why it's called the "Present"! I do not wish to have any regrets at the end of the day for not completing my tasks and wish to sleep happily having done my best in the present. I keep saying to my team that, when I go to sleep, I will have no mails or calls or jobs pending to be responded or acted upon, so even if I do not wake up next day, none of you would be left stranded for a reply.

However, the biggest challenge is to bring in the same understanding and work culture among everyone in the team, who believe that life has to be taken one step at a time and there is no need to show any urgency. They fail to realize that wasting a day of their life in postponing or delaying is actually an abuse of the "present" or gift from the God.

If each one believes today is a "Present" from God and go all out to make use of it effectively, the world will be a far better place with more productivity and progress. Just imagine, if you are told that you have only one more day to live by God, what will you do? How many things will you try to do in that day so that you leave the world with peace and happiness of having done your best? Will you do leisurely only a few things in such a scenario? You will go all out and stretch every bit of the minute to achieve as many things, make as many people happy in the time left. The same spirit is needed when we handle the "Present"/today.

Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with Rs.86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every rupee? of course!!!!

Each of us 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 remains 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 the "tomorrow". You must live in the present on 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.

To realize the value of ONE YEAR,
ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH,
ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK,
ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR,
ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE,
ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND,
ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND,
ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Remember that time waits for no one. The time in our hand is precious and let us not abuse it in wasteful things ...