Thursday, January 31, 2008

Bank of Time

If you had a bank that credited your account each morning with $86,400, that carried over no balance from day to day, and allowed you to keep no cash in your account, and every evening cancelled whatever part of the amount you had failed to used during the day, what would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!

Well, you have such a bank and its name is “time”. Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Each night it rules off, as lost, whatever of this you failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balances. It allows no overdrafts. Each day it opens a new account with you. Each night it burns the records of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits the loss is yours. There is no drawing against the “tomorrow”. You must live, in the present – on today’s deposit. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success.

Resource: Cal Poly Pomona

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