The minutes, hours, days, weeks, years, and decades, tick and roll by, sometimes without our conscious awareness. In fact, I would venture to say that most of the time we are not conscious about time. The importance of time in everything we do, and experience, is often overlooked. Music is measured in time. Light is measured in time. Energy and work are measured by time. In the short space of a few centuries our world has been totally transformed by the scientific discoveries of how time relates to sound, light, energy, and so much more. We can travel in minutes what used to take days, weeks, and years. Communication from one part of the world to a distant land at one time took years, now we can communicate with each other around the world in real-time with only millisecond delays.
While our time expectancy on earth may be limited to roughly a hundred years, give or take a few, each human being has for their use 24 hours a day. Whether they are in a wheelchair, hospital, prison, classroom, boardroom, barbershop, or on a street corner, we all have 60 seconds in every minute to use. We have measured the speed of light and the speed of sound. We can measure energy in nanoseconds. Who can measure the speed of thought, and how can we harness the power of our thoughts like we have harnessed solar, wind, electrical, nuclear, and other forms of power?
Our power of thought and the relentless nature of our spirits has enabled us to harness the powers of science and nature. Yet, it has been our weakness in these areas that is allowing our technology and witty inventions to master and control us. If we are going to use our internal resources to the same degree of excellence that we do our external resources, we are going to have to ‘seize the day.’ Each one of us can process information faster than some of the fastest computers but we have not learned how to maximize the space on our hard drives or understand the capability of our processors. To become disciplined for success requires the use of our spirits and our minds with a greater understanding of how to maximize our time.