Time is a like a bank account

Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to used during the day.

What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course? Each of us has such a bank, it’s name is time. Every morning, it credits you 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off at a lost, whatever of this you failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft.

Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against “tomorrow”. You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and health. The clock is running. Are you making the most of today?

  • To realize the value of TEN YEARS, ask the newly divorced couple.
  • To realize the value of FOUR YEARS, ask the college graduate.
  • To realize the value of A YEAR, ask a student who has failed his final exam.
  • To realize the value of A MONTH, ask a mother who’s given birth to a premature baby.
  • To realize the value of A WEEK, ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
  • To realize the value of A DAY, ask a daily wage laborer who has bills to pay.
  • To realize the value of A HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
  • To realize the value of A MINUTE, ask a person who has missed the bus.
  • To realize the value of A SECOND, ask a person who has survived an accident.
  • To realize the value of A MILLISECOND, ask the person who won the silver medal in the Olympics

Lesson to learn:

Make the most of the time you have, because you can never get it back. Time is precious, waste it wisely.