The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom

My favorite motto from Highschool until now is this: 

If you come early, you are wasting your time.

If you come late, you are wasting somebody's time.

If you come on time, you are wasting nobody's time.

So please come on time!

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I had the chance to read another Mitch Albom book and it's all about Time (the title was very clear :))
From the time that we were born up to this very minute, we are all bounded by time. 

Was born on November 15, 2007 at 11:15am

Was wed on May 22, 2010 at 2:30pm

Everything is time and motion, like every move is timed and this was how the story was presented.  One wanted to have more time (to live) and another wants time to stop (to savour the moment) -- but in reality, what do we really need?

If you ask me, I would have wished if there can be another day in a week; making it 8 days a week. I think it's enough time to go through the normal route of ones life.  And in that additional day, i wished that we can do more!! 

But that's not the way the world works.  Time is as it is, time! There is nothing we can do to extend it -- we can only live with it and make the most out of it.

How?? By being thankful, contented and happy.  Sometimes being too pre-occupied with things or fame makes us forget how precious time is and I mean spending each time to the things that matters most to us.  To the things that money can't buy but only time can give. 

Here are some simple examples on how we can make use of our time wisely: 

1. Spend more time with family - this is what you call "Emotional Insurance" (from the Last Lecture of Randy Pausch).  Creating memories that can last a lifetime is something money can't buy; because giving our laughters and cheers then recieving warmth and comfort from your family is just priceless.

2. Spend more time with ourselves - Health is wealth and thus it is important to also take care of our physical, emotional, phsycological self because it is from being healthy that we can give back. How? There are many ways and doing them effectively will make us more productive. 

3. Do something that interests you - may it be reading a good book, cleaning the house, painting, cooking, DIYing, crafting and many more -- things that can make you productive and fulfilled.  Things that you can pass on as a legacy and can leave a memory of you! Though internet surfing and watching tv might be classified as interesting, I say that it should be minimal.  Like Randy Pausch, I also believe that watching TV is an ultimate time waster. 

4. Do not over sleep - this is just me.  I believe that over sleeping is not "catching up on sleep", for me it's a waste of time! We need to get the daily sleep required per day so that we don't need to catch up on it on a weekend, where we could have been doing something productive - like cooking for our family. 

5. Work 8 productive hours - though this is something where we get a living, we are only required 8 hours per day to do this. Therefore, we need to make each minute of the 8 hour workday productive.

We all have our strategy on how we can make do of the time that we have here on earth because each precious moment that we live in is a gift from Him.  We then should be thankful because He made it all possible.  Giving thanks may require some time for us but it's always worth doing because it will be given back to us in thousand folds! ^_^

Xoxo