Where Does The Time Go? tively pursuing your goals and where you want life to take you. I’m all for that. However, too many times it’s easy to get caught up in the future so much that we forget that life happens in the
By Jeff Whitaker
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don’t know about you, but the fact that we are adjusting our clocks again is a bit scary. I say that because it’s just another indication to me of how fast time just seems to slip away. I say ‘seems’ because in reality, time is moving at the exact same speed it always has. It’s time. But as I get older, it seems to move faster. Seasons that seemed to drag on and on, come and go in an instant. Sundays turn into Mondays and all of a sudden it’s Friday. I come across pictures of my family and what is timestamped four years ago, seems like a flash in the pan, only yesterday and I ask myself where it all has gone. I’m all for laying out goals and looking forward to tomorrow. In fact, in this column I often write about the importance of thinking through a plan, putting it down on paper and then ac-
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present, in the here and now. And if we are always looking at the horizon, we miss what’s right in front of us. There is a song on the country music charts right now titled “Five More Minutes”. It chronicles a person's life and the various times during their life that they stop in the middle of a monumental or life altering event and realize the moment they are living in is about to go
away forever. At that moment, they ask for just five more minutes. I think time is a lot like oxygen. If you have plenty of it, you can easily take it for granted. But when every breath become a struggle, you begin to realize how valuable it is. We’ve all heard the advice that we need to ‘manage our time’ more efficiently. But I choose to look at it this way. It’s not so much managing but being acutely aware of time. I don’t know about you, but for me the challenge is to be so present in the moment that I don’t miss out and regret what I might otherwise miss. We all are given 24 hours or 1440 minutes every day. The question is, are you making the most of the time? It’s a gift we can never reclaim once it's gone.
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Jeff Whitaker is a lifelong communicator and storyteller. He is a certified trainer, coach and speaker with The John Maxwell Team. Jeff’s goal is to encourage excellence in individuals and corporations through leadership and communications training. Connect with him at jeffwhitaker.com, through The Jeff Whitaker Company on Facebook or @jeffwhitaker on Twitter.
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