Do You Own A Time Vacuum?
“The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time”
~ Robert Kiyosaki
What do we all hear over and over again?
“I just don’t have enough time.”
or…
“If only I had more time.”
People using “a lack of time” as an excuse to why they can’t get things done. We’ve all done it or said it at one point or another in our lives.
It’s when we realize that we can control how we spend our time that we begin to prosper in life.
Chad and I always joke around and call our TV a Time Vacuum because if you let it, it will suck you in and you will end up wasting so much time watching so much unnecessary garbage.
Now, we are not saying that it is all bad or that we never watch TV…cough, cough…24...but we don’t allow our time to be monopolized by it. When we first started our own home based business, we made it a rule to watch zero television (luckily 24 wasn’t in season…phew).
We did this because we wanted to make sure we were 100% focused on our business and we knew one show would lead to another, then another and so on.
Also, when we started our business, we were going through such a learning curve that we needed to spend the time acquiring the skills necessary to be successful that nothing else seemed all that important at the time.
We knew the potential for our business so focusing our energy on the things we needed to in order to be successful wasn’t difficult for us.
We were so passionate about achieving our goals and so inspired by what we knew we would accomplish that we found we couldn’t even sit through a show, even if we wanted to.
It’s amazing how much time you have when you decide you want something bad enough. To be honest, once we allowed ourselves to watch TV again, it didn’t seem all that important…well, except for 24 of course!
Every day our lives are filled with choices and the decisions we all make will shape our future.
Instead of watching that “quick” 30 minute sitcom, why not learn a new marketing skill, or listen to a personal development CD, or spend some time writing an article and providing value to the marketplace?
Maybe going out to dinner and “bar hopping” every weekend with friends, week after week won’t be on your agenda, at least not every week…
…but I bet you’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish if you make those types of decisions. If you make the choice to spend your time and energy on the things that you want most out of your life.
How much time do you spend reading? How about learning a new skill set? It’s easy to complain about how our lives are so miserable, but it’s truly up to each one of us to make our circumstances different.
There will be times when you will have to make sacrifices and maybe you will have to miss a TV show from time to time, or a night out on occasion, but it’s these types of decisions that separate the rich from the poor.
Let’s all remember next time we catch ourselves saying…
“…if I only had more time”…
…that we are all in control of our lives and must take control over our actions and the decisions we make every day or else we will spend our lives reacting to things instead of making things happen.
