“If you are not being ‘careful,’ you will miss those irretrievable opportunities to make small, incremental time deposits in the things that matter most.”

A thought by Andy Stanley, (2009-04-23) from his book, The Best Question Ever (p. 80). The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

We will miss those irretrievable opportunities that matter most. Now that hits at the heart of one who wants to maximize my time. Time cannot be retrieved. You may lose all your money and you can make more but when you lose time you have lost it.

Andy says right before this thought, “If you aren’t on your guard, the culture will draw you into a lifestyle where your time is frivolously consumed rather than strategically invested.” And then right after he says, “If you are not walking wisely, your time will be fragmented by a thousand urgent, disconnected opportunities and events. Such opportunities and events will seem important at the time, but when strung together they have no cumulative value. But if you are willing to harness your time and appropriate it strategically, things can be different. You will be healthier physically, relationally, and possibly, financially. You will look back at this next season of life with few, if any, regrets. Not because of a single day or a single burst of activity, but because of a single decision: the decision to get full value out of your time by making small, incremental investments of time in the things that matter most.”

So what is it you find most important to invest that which you will never be able to get more of? Have you made that decision with your life? Have you decided to get full value out of your life, out of your time? Are you making small incremental investments of time in those things that matter most to you? Have you ever really stopped and decided what really matters most to you?

Oh if you would stop and look at your calendar and looked at your checkbook you would see what really matters most to you. What you give your time to and what you use your money for tells you that. But if you really stopped and really thought about it is that what REALLY matters most to you?

Those are some good questions to think about here at the end of a month and the beginning of a new week. I think if you would just stop and think you might refocus some of your money and your time.

So what REALLY matters most to you?

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