Here is an article written by Randy Allison which helps to define the meaning of “Time Well Spent”.

Time well spent.  

A series of television commercials by a national wireless telephone carrier humorously portrays our culture’s borderline obsession with the “new and improved”.  In this instance, cell phone minutes.  In what is cast as a familial tug of war, an earnestly thrifty mom desperately pleads with her less than conservation minded brood over the worth of “roll over minutes”.  These older, “perfectly good” minutes in the form of small plastic clocks are found carelessly discarded in the trash, used as fetch toys with the family dog and wastefully disposed of in favor of their newer, more highly desirable alternative.  

If we knew the balance minutes in our individual life plans would we spend or value that time any differently?  And at what point does anyone, old minutes or young, most appreciate and value the time we do have day to day?   

Savoring today is a life lesson that shouldn’t have to be learned until the final few ticks.  Which is the greater treasure after all, a long life or a life well lived?  Only one can be hoped for, but the other is a personal choice all have in the here and now.  

 Next time we find ourselves frantically chasing that which is so fleeting, let us take pause and set our personal clocks to a more thankful time zone.  What we will be blessed to find is the essence of a life of gratitude and what truly makes for time that is indeed very well spent.  

Thanks,   Randy Allison