Eddie Pinero

What about when it accumulates and it becomes 14 hours a week or roughly 56 hours a month or times 12, 672 hours a year?

I mean, these numbers start to get eye-opening.

All it takes is a little awareness and we see how often we dispose of time like it's valueless.

Everything we do is a cost because in doing it, we are making a decision to not be doing something else with that time.

And again, I believe in balance.

I want to emphasize that.

I'm not suggesting that we walk around like robots, clocking in, clocking out, checking boxes so that we don't ever waste a minute, right?

As the great Keith Urban says, the best days of my life were all that wasted time.

You know, we should explore and enjoy and love and laugh and experience life.

But that awareness makes us more intentional with those pursuits.

With our work time and our play time, it forces us in a way to prioritize, to ask ourselves what we want.

Instead of only looking at progress like this vending machine where you put an X and Y comes out.

Well, we can ask ourselves, what happens if I don't put an X?

What happens if I keep it in my pocket?

What won't come out?

What could have existed that now won't?

See, just because you don't see something slipping away, that doesn't mean that it isn't.

And the immediate, the world in front of you, unfortunately, won't remind you of that.

That's a bell you have to ring yourself.

You have to peel back the, what am I doing, and unveil the, what could I be doing?