It has been awhile since I’ve posted anything. It isn’t that I couldn’t come up with anything to write about. I have a list of subjects to get me well into next year. It isn’t that I don’t have the time. I have the same 24 hours a day that everyone else has. I guess maybe it is that I have become “comfortable”. It is just easier to sit and watch TV or engage in some other “non-productive” activity than it is to actually take a few minutes to write. I have grown to enjoy my uncomfortable position.
One of my mentors taught me a long time ago that there are two resources that drive almost every decision we make. Time and money. How many times have you used these phrases?
I would love to do that, but I don’t have the time.
I would love to do that, but I can’t afford it.
Two very common sentences that I hear and use often. Yet we settle down at the end of the day in our comfortable place and enjoy our uncomfortableness and do nothing to make changes in our lives.
Of these two resources, which one is the most important? We see a lot of ads and TV shows that lead us to believe that if we only had the money, we could buy ourselves a better life. But, if we make a bad financial decision, we can always make more money and replace the money we lost. Once this hour is gone, you can never get it back. You can’t replace time. Once my kids are a year older, I can never go back and do the things I wish I had done. Time is easily the most valuable resource that we have.
It sometimes becomes easier to sit in our comfortable place and complain about how uncomfortable we are. “I wish I had the time to…” “I wish I had the money to…” The reality is that we do have the time. It is just a matter of being a little uncomfortable and investing our time into the things that we know are important.
So, what is important? The answer to that question is different for every person at any given moment. Often, the things that are the most important are the things that we avoid the most. When I was in college, my apartment was always the cleanest the night before a major test. I knew I needed to study, but I would rather clean the apartment than tackle the important task of studying. There is a season for everything. A time to clean and a time to study. A time to play and a time to work. A time to be a little more uncomfortable and a time to be comfortable.
Are you comfortable being uncomfortable?
For everything there is a season, and a time for every [a]purpose under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1
Thanks for reading and sharing. You are exactly right. I’m working on a post about exactly that.
This is an encouragement for me to do the things I can while I can; we never know how much time we have left.
Also, use money as a tool to bring benefits to others!