The Value of TIME - Powerful Motivational Speech

when asked what's the biggest mistake we make in life the Buddha replied the biggest mistake is you think you have time time is free but it's Priceless you can't own it but you can use it you can't keep it but you can spend it and once it's lost you can never get it back the average person lives 78 years we spend 28.3 years of our life sleeping that's almost a third of our life but 30 percent of us struggle to sleep well we spend 10.5 years of our life working but over 50 percent of us

want to leave our current jobs time is more valuable than money you can get more money but you can never get more time we spend nine years on TV and social media we spend six years doing chores we spend four years eating and drinking we spent three and a half years in education we spend two and a half years grooming we spend two and a half years shopping we spent one and a half years in child care and we spend 1.3 years commuting that leaves us with nine years how will we spend that time Steve

Jobs said your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life so there's good news and there's bad news the bad news is time flies the good news is you're the pilot imagine you wake up every day with eighty six thousand four hundred dollars in your bank account and at the end of the night it's all gone whether you spent it or not and then the next day you get another eighty six thousand four hundred dollars what would we do with it every day eighty six thousand four hundred seconds are deposited in to

your life account at the end of the day once they're all used up you get a new 86 400 seconds we would never waste it if it was money so why do we waste it when it comes to time those seconds are so much more powerful than dollars because you can always make more dollars you can't always make more time to realize the value of one year ask a student who failed a grade to realize the value of one month ask a mother who lost their child in the final month to realize the value of

one week ask the editor of an online magazine to realize the value of one hour ask the couple who's in a long-distance relationship to realize the value of one minute ask the person who just missed a bus train or plane to realize the value of one second ask the person who just missed an accident and to realize the value of a millisecond ask the person who just came second at the Olympics we think that it's people wasting our time but it's really us giving them the permission to do that and in reality these two people

live inside us don't let someone be a priority when all you are to them is an option some of us lose the people most important to us because we don't value their time some of us don't recognize how important someone is to us until they're gone inside all of us are two voices one voice that wants to uplift one voice that wants us to expand one voice that wants us to grow and then there's the other voice the voice that holds us back the voice that makes us lazy the voice that makes us complacent the

voice that restricts us from our potential every day from the moment we wake up to the moment we go to sleep inside of us there's this battle between the two voices and guess which one wins the one that we listen to the most the one that we feed the one that we amplify it is our choice of how we use our time life and time are the best two teachers life teaches us to make good use of time and time teaches us the value of life and as William Shakespeare said time is very slow for

those who want very fast for those who are scared very long for those who are sad very short for those who celebrate but for those who love time is eternal [Music]