Non-Renewable Resource

Renewable resources. We hear it everywhere. We see it wherever we look. “Go green…” they say. We’re all talking about “carbon footprints” and “global warming” and “eco-friendly” and “recycled” this and “recycled” that.

But few are those who stand at their podiums talking about
the most precious of all resources.

One we all have.

The one that is NOT renewable…

TIME!!

Some food for thought from a 200+ year-old book:

I stopped my horse…where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchant’s goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean, old man, with white locks, “pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not those heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to do?”

Sounds a lot like us today, doesn’t it? Standing around, waiting for what we hope to get, complaining amongst ourselves about the government, taxes, high prices, our upline, our downline (or lack thereof), etc.

The old man stood up and replied…

“If you would have my advices…the taxes are, indeed, very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us…”

He goes on to say that idleness “taxes” us much more than our government by wasting our time and laziness eats away at us like rust. That if we love life, that we should not squander time, because that’s “the stuff life is made of.” And if time is the most precious of all things, then not using what’s given us must be the greatest waste of all. For “lost time is never found again…”

What has this to do with our businesses and us?

EVERYTHING!

Spend time calling leads…or talking/complaining with friends?

Spend time educating yourself on the industry…or watching your favorite TV show?

Spend time applying what you’ve learned…or thinking about it?

I could go on, but I think you get the drift.

When I “don’t feel like” doing what I know I need to do…

When I labor at something trying to “get it right” when I’ve never even done it before…

When fear or frustration wants to stop me dead in my tracks…

I remember that TIME it the one resource I have that is
NOT RENEWABLE!!

Use YOUR time wisely and make it a great day!!

Cathie
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By the way…the story above can be found in Ben Franklin’s
"The Way to Wealth"…great little book!