Time

Imagine there’s a bank that credits your account every morning with 86,400 dollars. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? DRAW OUT ALL OF IT, of course!!!

Each of us has such a bank. It’s name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.

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 going back. 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 success! The clock is running. Make the most of today.

To realize the value of one year

Ask a student who has failed a

final exam.

To realize the value of a month:

Ask a mother who has given birth

to a premature baby.

To realize the value of one week:

Ask an editor of a weekly

newspaper.

To realize the value of one hour:

Ask the lovers who are waiting to

meet.

To realize the value of one minute:

Ask a person who has missed the

train, bus or plane.

To realize the value of one second:

Ask a person who has survived an

accident.

To realize the value of one millisecond:

Ask the person who has won a

silver medal in the Olympics.

Treasure every moment you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special … special enough to spend your time.

And remember that time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift — that is why it is called the PRESENT!