There are 24 hours in a day and with approximately 8 hours set aside for sleeping and 9 hours for work, we are left with 7 hours approximately to work with. The good thing about is, whatever your status in life is, every one of us have the same amount of hours to work with. The only difference between you and the next person is how each one of us respond, execute or allocate our precious time throughout our lifetime. It only takes a single idea, or encouragement, or some people often say momentum in order to get the ball rolling. The problem is, we are trapped in our tiny world and succumb to believe that our life is set towards a single path. A lot of us live through the same routine and habitual events. A lot of us waste our most valuable resource of time into things that doesn't improve our being and personal development. Our mind is a powerful thing and it pretty much dictates our willpower on whether we should pursue something or not. Once we believe that something needs to be accomplished (career, new knowledge, education, get better grades in school, etc.) then the likelihood of you reaching that goal becomes easier. It takes time, sacrifices and even failure but with the presence of the right attitude, anything is possible.
At times, I can be weak-minded but once I re-evaluate the situation at hand, my goals becomes clear regardless of how painful the experience might or can be. Once you lose hope, your spirit comes to a halt or even dies and everything goes down with you, and nothing can get accomplished. The thing that fires me up the most is that, I see everyone equally regardless of how skillful, educated, successful, experienced or old others are. Some people might have been in a better situation or lucky but regardless, our time are equally set.
Given, it is how we use our time wisely that sets us apart from others around us. I value time so much that I hate to say that I actually hate sleeping. I can do so much with 8 hours and a lot of things can get accomplished within that timeframe. 8 hours translated into several thousands of days in our lifetime is quite a bit but this is something that we have no control over nor can be altered. I value time so much that I hesitate to play video games with my friends in a lot of occasions. When I was in school back when I was in my undergraduate years, I avoided hanging out with a lot of my close friends because I was so focused on studying. I understood soon after however that I need to keep a balance between things in my life but one thing is, I never took my eyes off the goals. But if it wasn't for the little sacrifices of going out, and wasting my time with invaluable things--I would have not get good grades in college.
Since I've had so little time between school, work and working out to begin with, I had to manage my time carefully. Not having some time for important people in my life was only temporary and it was a choice that I had to make for that time being. With sacrifices comes good things and hard work always pays off in the end even though the end doesn't seem to be apparent. This might not always be the case but "luck" combined with hardwork and extra effort always results positively. It is how we use our time that matters and it is the most valuable thing that we have in our lifetime. Use it well. If playing video games is something that matters to you the most, then be it, everyone has different goals in life. One person can't dictate whether an activity is valuable or invaluable but rather each person's view towards an activity's value differs than others. If you want to prosper in something, dedicate an extra time into setting your foot into something even though you have to spend more hours than others. In the end, it is how we utilize time that determines our path in life...and success follows thereafter. Always. If you fail, move on and learn from it. To fail is not something that is to be considered a weakness towards our ability but rather a learning experience towards becoming a better person or becoming better at something. The lack of ability is the inability to learn from those dreadful experience and move on from there.
Famous quote:
"But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?" - Lois McMaster Bujold
Happy Holidays!
- Dennis