{"id":3007,"date":"2018-07-22T14:43:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T18:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2018-07-22T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T18:43:44","slug":"three-minute-leadership-the-value-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2018\/07\/three-minute-leadership-the-value-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: The Value of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/span><\/p>\n

Charles Darwin<\/a> wrote: \u201cThe man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.<\/i>\u201d In his book,\u00a0Go for the Gold<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0John Maxwell<\/a> discusses the value of time as he brings a hard reality to it in sharing\u00a0Charles Spezzano\u2019s<\/a> thoughts in his book,\u00a0What to Do Between Birth and Death<\/i><\/a> about how people give value to their time.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Maxwell writes: \u201cSpezzano says that people don\u2019t pay for things with money; they pay for them with time. If you say to yourself, In five years, I\u2019ll have put enough away to buy that vacation house, then what you are really saying is that the house will cost you five years \u2013 one-twelfth of your adult life.<\/i>\u201d Spezzano writes: \u201cSpending your time is not a metaphor. It\u2019s how life works<\/i>.\u201d Maxwell suggests to great leaders that instead of thinking of getting, doing or achieving things in terms of money, they think of the time that they are investing in acquiring them.<\/p>\n

This simple change brings emphasis and focus to the value of time. We open our eyes to new ways of seeing and valuing things. A simple example, do we choose to invest in our time as a measure of things (e.g. how many breaths we have in a minute) or, rather, something more beautiful as how many breathtaking moments we have chosen to make in that brief moment.<\/p>\n

Maxwell asks: \u201cWhat is worth spending your life on?<\/i>\u201d This is the question to be asked for every moment of the great leaders\u2019 lives. What are their most important priorities, and how will they invest this precious time they are given. May great leaders remember always the words of an unknown author: \u201cThe greatest gift you can give someone is your time. Because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

May you always make good use of time. In doing so, time will give you one of its greatest gifts\u2026 it will teach you the value of life\u2026 a gift of a lifetime.<\/p>\n

Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n

Mike<\/p>\n

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