Time

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.  The time will pass anyway;  we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.  --Earl Nightingale

I need to apply this in my life.  I have many interesting things in this life of mine to experience and acquire that I'm not reaching for because there doesn't seem to be time.  It's funny though,  I always seem to have time to watch at least one TV show--even if I've already seen it.

Why don't I prioritize?   I get after Keith almost every weekend for not doing at least one thing just because he wants to and  yet I'm the same way.  Only I have a million times as much free time as he does.  I even say to myself occasionally,  "Why would I spend 3 hours on a project that nobody but me would even notice got done?"

The quote mentions fear.  I think fear is an incredible motivator--or anti motivator.  I fear that if I take on a project and do it wrong, I'll be further behind than when I started.   I fear that what I do won't be perfect.  I fear that I'll only get half-finished and then get interrupted and never get back to it.  I fear that if I get really involved with something, I'll neglect the things I need to get done like meals, laundry, paying bills.  I fear that if I get too involved doing something for me, I won't be doing enough with my family.

It's funny, we have as many hours in our days as the people who built the Great Wall of China, or the Parthenon in Athens and we have so much technology to make everything so much easier and yet we still say,  "I don't have time."  I think that's why I get such a kick out of people who tweet and facebook,  (There I go judging again.) because they need reach a bunch of people all at once instead of one by one.  I really should have been born when women churned their own butter.  Then I would have had time to think about all my random things while I was busy, without feeling like I was wasting time doing it.