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What Is Time?

Time – A limited period or interval, as between two successive events.  Duration regarded as belonging to the present life as distinct from the life to come or from eternity.  A prescribed or allotted period.

Time is a funny thing.  It can be both finite and infinite, depending on your perspective.

If you wish, check out the wikipedia article on time to get a little more info on the subject.

If Our Time Is Limited, How Should We Best Use It?

The answer is that we should use our time wisely.

Wise -Having the power of discerning and judging property as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment or discretion.

As much as I hate to admit it I do NOT feel like I’ve been using my last few Sundays wisely.

I have spent at least half of my last 5 Sunday watching professional football.

Is professional football bad?  NO, IN AND OF ITSELF, PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL IS NOT BAD.

BUT, here is what is bad.  What is bad is that I am watching, in my opinion, professional players, ALL OF WHOM ARE GETTING PAID AT LEAST 10 TIMES WHAT I MAKE, IF NOT A HECK OF A LOT MORE, performing in a mediocre manner.  In my opinion, at worst they don’t care and at best, they have no clue what they are doing.

So, why am I watching them?  Because I am enamored with them.  Like many males, I love my sports teams.

BUT, back to the question, is it a wise use of my time?

Yesterday, I watched my second straight showing of UTTER futility.  My favorite American football team, the Houston Texans, FOR THE SECOND WEEK IN A ROW, dominated their opponent for 90% of the game.    BUT, when it was all said and done, they had their heads handed to them and they looked like rank amateurs.

So, What’s My Point?

My point is NOT that they lost.  My point is that the team is composed of a group of people who:

• Are ALL probably making at least 10 times as much money as I do (if not a heck of a lot more);

• All make their money, NO MATTER IF THEIR PERFORMANCE IS GOOD OR BAD (which is unlike me – if I mess up or don’t perform, I don’t get paid at all);

• All have little or no clue, in my opinion, about the real world.  They are raised to believe the entire world revolves around them;

• None of these guys, in my opinion, care about me or my problems;

• Watching them is not going to pay my bills, get my work done, or make my life better in any way.

My point is this.  I am done, I am cooked.  I have at least 5 books I could have read yesterday and multiple other projects to do, ALL OF WHICH WOULD HELP ME BE BETTER PREPARED TO DEAL WITH THE ISSUES IN Y LIFE.

My point is that watching you is, in my opinion, a waste of my valuable time.  There are at least 50 to 100 other things I could have done.  You obviously don’t care about me (in my opinion), so why should I care about you?

Sayonara pro football.  You have lost me, possibly forever . . .

I am alive, I am ambitious, I appreciate what I have (apparently, in my opinion, a lot more than these professional football players do) and NONE of it because of you.  So long, have fun, I wish you well, but I have BIGGER things to concern myself with.

Recommended Reading

Laws of Positioning #1 – Position Yourself To Be Alive

Laws of Positioning #2 – Position Yourself To Be Ambitious

Laws of Positioning #3 – Position Yourself To be Appreciative

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