Time's Value

There is a bank that credits your account with $86,400 each morning. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening, whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day will be deleted. What would you do? Draw out all of it, of course!

Each of us has such a bank. Its name is time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off as lost whatever of this you have failed to put to good use. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.

Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.

There is no going back. There is no drawing against the "tomorrow." You must live in the present, on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success!

The clock is running. Make the most of today.

To realize the value of TEN YEARS, ask a newly divorced couple.

To realize the value of FOUR YEARS, ask two, now single, high school sweethearts.

To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.

To realize the value of NINE MONTHS, ask a mother who gave birth to a still born.

To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.

To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.

To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Treasure every moment that you have! You will treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.

And remember that time waits for no one. As the saying goes, "Time and tide wait for no man." Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.