One thing that when you home office as a REALTOR that it affords you around lunchtime that you don't have typically in a brick and mortar work environment is the occasion to flip on the television for a lunch break.
I'm not into soap operas but the one that always struck me was Days of our Lives. The opening title screen had a voiceover that said, "Like sand through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives." That thought has always stuck with me. I think afternoon soaps hold the attraction of vicariously living through the dramas of others lives, the bare chested muscular men in bed with the babes that aren't their wives, the tensions back at the hospital with the life threatening illnesses, or the villain characters who hope to disrupt everyone's lives. Much good vs. evil. Much overcoming or not overcoming temptation. And then the cliffhanger between commercials or stay tuned till tomorrow's episode to see what happens next. It reminds me a lot of blogging even. What will your favorite writer's or professional's minds come up with next?
But meanwhile in all this, like that hourglass, time keeps moving forward. Those grains in our hourglass are like the seconds in our lives. They say terminally ill patients of all sorts say the seconds on the clock do not go TICK TICK TICK but PRECIOUS PRECIOUS PRECIOUS.
So with that in mind, especially when it comes to social networking, your activities for the day, time between family and work, remember that precious thought. Do we waste many grains of sand as they shift from top to bottom and are spent? Sure. But as we get older we want those grains to be important to WHOM? Us. Not having too much of someone else telling us where to spend our time. Balance is the key, just like on social networks. You can't be all things to everyone. You can't be everywhere at the same time. There are only so many hours in the day. Some say have three IMPORTANT MEANINGFUL TO YOU things to work on today, because that is all you can focus on.
Whatever you hope to do today, be reminded that this day you will NEVER get back again in terms of time. Make the most of it. The seconds of your life are the currency you are made up of. When it's gone, that is your legacy.
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