Discretionary time. What does that mean? Golf, tennis, gym, grand kids, good friends and family are excellent examples of using your discretionary time. You do the math. A typical year is 2,000 hours (ie: 50 wks × 40 hrs per wk) yeah right! Since we all have the same allotted time of 52 weeks in a year, 7 days in a week and 24 hours in a day that totals 8,736 hours. That gives us 6,736 hours to be considered discretionary. How much time do we need to sleep each day? 8 hours of sleep would equal 2,912 hours in a year. Now we have 3,824 hours left which is our own and still almost twice as much as a typical work year. So why is it we still have no time for ourselves, our families or our dreams to be fulfilled? Okay, we can get technical and allow time to eat, remove waste resulting from eating or drinking, have sex or other activities. I contend we can use these times intelligently. For example, when we eat, let’s share our day with our loved ones. Sex is left to your own imagination. However, other activities is where there may be a lot of time wasted. You may be thinking that this whole message is a waste of time. Have you ever considered how you spend your discretionary time? Let’s just say we have only 1,000 hours of discretionary time per year. That is about 2.5 hours each day to be totally creative. Can you imagine what can be done with all that time? I have just spent 1 hour of my time to share with you. Enjoy your time as we all have the same allotment if our Creator blesses us with another full day. What will you do with your 2 1/2 hours of discretionary time today?
Happy New Year,
T