Each day, I take time to reflect on the things I've done and I measure them up to my dreams to determine if I've done anything towards reaching my personal goals.

Some days, I have.  Others, I haven't.

On the days that I haven't done anything that I think would have been beneficial to accomplishing my goals, I'd given myself the excuse of being busy.  On a typical night, I go to bed around 10:30/11:00pm.  I am up every morning by 4:00am, which means I sleep an average of 5 hours per night.  Then, I work for 8-9 hours.  When I go home, I'm generally too tired to do anything but rest for about an hour.  On Mondays, I take my daughter to her gymnastics class for an hour and a half; and on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I am in school from 6pm to 9pm.  So, technically, I'm free from about 4pm until roughly 5:30 on those days.

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I've decided that if I can do gymnastics and school for three days a week, I should be able to go to church on Wednesday evenings. So, that'll give me from 4pm until about 6pm on Wednesdays. THIS is why I take every day as a countdown to the weekend.  Friday through Sunday is typically when I get to do fun things with my daughter, do extensive work around my house, do laundry, and go to church. Sometimes, work interferes with these activities, and sometimes my regular routine is interrupted by a weekend road trip.

Here is the issue I have with the way I spend my time away from my job: The only thing I'm doing that is leading towards accomplishing my own goals is attending classes twice a week.  That is only helping with ONE goal. Fortunately, I was blessed with the ability to literally SEE future businesses. The down side is that I realized I am doing nothing to cultivate those other ideas.

After reading this article: http://www.brothaonline.com/daily/706-ain-t-nobody-got-time-for-that-by-romel-gibson, I thought about the value of life, and one word that always comes to mind when thinking about a person who has lived and died with untapped potential is "unfulfilled."  The breakdown of the word itself says exactly what it is: not fully filled.  Placing this knowledge into proper perspective is quite sobering. When an older person dies, we often hear that he (or she) lived a full life, but did he really? If I'm given time to think about that while on my death bed, I sincerely hope the answer is yes. Otherwise, I've lived a life unfulfilled.

 

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