I thought while driving with the setting sun today how the sun gets lower and lower in the sky as we approach the shortest daylight of the year at around Dec. 21st. Then when most of us switch to standard time weekend after this weekend the evening daylight hours will have melted away (AGAIN).

It was a stark metaphor for me for the idea if the daylight hours are your time to get things done, what truly are you getting done? Or,

                   ARE YOU JUST BURNING DAYLIGHT???

The preciousness of time comes to us when we are robbed of it or the sand left in our hourglass is forecast to be very limited. It is true we all have finite time. Most of us just don't know how long that candle will burn.

Face it, we all waste time. Probably gobs of time. We know when we waste time when we look back on what we did and apply that judgment call. But how can we STOP wasting so much time that we do?

We have to learn from our mistakes. Think of all the time wasters: Traffic, lines in stores, selling houses for unmotivated sellers, other people wasting our time, meetings, dumb classes you take that don't amount to a hill of beans or are not useful, on an on. Surely in life there also is sacrifice for others which could be considered a waste of OUR time but we choose the sacrifice. How about too much TV, too much Internet?? 

The reason we should stop wasting time is they are not making any more of it. We do not manage time, we spend it. Spending it doing what we want to do with it is what we should be striving for. Do we have to spend it working in areas that are not optimum for our life? Sure. But there are areas of your time that are very much under your control.

I have no time for telemarketers anymore. I use the word No so liberally nowadays it takes people back in surprise that it only took a nanosecond to hear that word.

You must get a handle on what is working and not working with your time and best as you can "stop wasting it." I think from cancer survivors and even just getting older, people finally figure this one out.

Good luck with keeping that sun up high in the sky longer each day you live. It can be done. But you have to be aware of it that it is YOUR life. Not someone elses.