If you are going to kill time, work it to death. Earl Anderson

Earl has said this to me several times and every time I hear it I like it a little more.

When you look at how you spend your time, how much of your time are you killing? How much of your day slips through your fingers never to be seen again?

We need to find ways to stop killing, spending, and wasting time and begin investing it.

Invest your time in relationships.

Invest you time in building your skills.

Invest your time in working on yourself.

The second part of this quote that I like is that it involves work.

If you have time to kill, find something to work on. Find something productive to do instead of just letting those minutes and hours float right on past you.

It is easy to think sometimes that we can avoid the hard work part of turning ourselves into a happier person. We see others who appear to be not working hard but still seem happy and think it is that easy.

I’m convinced that most of the important things in life require hard work. So we need to embrace the hard work in front of us.

Make it a great week.

Jake