I HAD a very inspiring session with some people who have grown through my programme in 2022. One of the things we discovered was how important every second is our 24 hours to our vision. Time is the only resource distributed, equally whether you are in London, New York, Tokyo, Moscow or Guyana. No matter what profession you decide on, you will still have 24 hours every day. Our future is affected by how, when and where we invest time.

This week I will continue the content on time from Myles Munroe. There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven (Ecclesiastes 3:1).

” Make decisions based on your destiny

With your values set in place, to redeem time or make the most of your time, you must make sure all your daily decisions all play small important roles towards the fulfillment of your purpose or goals because the secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Understanding that it is the little decisions that combine to make up your overall life will help you make the most of this. You can be sure already that if you continually make decisions that take you away from the desired goals or don’t take you towards them, time is passing by– time you can never regain.

INVENTORY YOUR ASSOCIATIONS
Humans are social beings; we cannot live our lives without associations, but we must make sure we are leaving with the right associations. Not having any association is unhealthy, but having the wrong association is even worse.

To redeem the time, you must consciously examine your current friends and the people you spend your time with and identify the contributions they are making to the fulfillment of your destiny. Some people are just time-wasters, and on your journey to redeem the time, time wasters are your enemies.

Even if a friend isn’t taking you closer to your destiny, at least they shouldn’t take you away from it. And for those who aren’t taking you closer, you must spend less time with them even as you spend no time with those who take you away.

Identify and seek the friends that you need that can help you get to your destination faster and stick with them; they alone should you spend your time with.

REVIEW YOUR INVESTMENTS
An investment is a venture you put in resources and expect some returns at a later time. Whether knowingly or not, every day of your life you are making investments. Today is the return on the investment you made in the past.

The resources you possess include time, energy, money, relationships, among others. To effectively invest these resources, you must identify what result you like them to bring and begin to tilt what you are doing currently to match and bring you to that return.

What do you want to have used your energy to get in the next 10 years? Once it is determined, immediately begin to use your energy in that direction. Just like your decisions make your destiny, it is your investment that dictates your result returns.

You will want to make sure that what you are currently investing in will bring you the returns that you desire.

DO NOT TRY TO PLEASE EVERYONE
You should not try to please everyone, firstly because you cannot please everyone, and secondly because you should not please everyone. You daily have to decide between pleasing everyone or getting to your destiny. The decision to get to your destiny will not please everyone around you, sometimes even those dear to you.

If the decisions that will take you to your destiny are not accepted by certain people, you must learn to stick with your destiny still, because those people can’t give you your destiny or might not even be in your destiny.

If you allow how they feel determine how far you go, you are only surcharging yourself. You aren’t responsible for how everyone feels. People can choose to feel good or bad no matter what you do, So it is really not about you. It is about them.

However, not everyone can be against your destiny. If everyone is against your destiny, you should re-examine what you are chasing.

FORGET THE PAST AND PURSUE/DESIGN THE FUTURE
Brooding over, regretting, or celebrating the past only keeps you away from the future. The job of the past is to guide future action; it should not determine your future. That is, just learn from your past but don’t stick with it.

One thing you must always know about the past is that it is past. There’s nothing you can do to change it, but there’s something you can do now to change the future. However, if you don’t take action towards the future now, the future will follow the nature of the past– it will just pass by and be out of your control.

KEEP THE FUTURE UNDER CONTROL BY CONTROLLING THE PRESENT
You should also learn that it is not only past regrets that keep people away from their destinies, past success also keeps people away from success. The greatest enemy of success is not failure, but previous success.

Instead of spending all your time celebrating and praising yourself for the successes you have gotten, focus on getting the next success, because whatever you have accomplished is no longer your potential.”

You can’t get back time that is gone, but you can make the most of the time you have left. The central key towards maximising time is by taking conscious and calculated steps. Do not leave anything to chance, instead consciously ensure that every decision you make brings you closer to your destiny or desire to goal.

I encourage you to share this info with someone  as we continue to celebrate this beautiful journey called life BEYOND THE RUNWAY