While preparing this issue of MAGNET, I was struck by a quote from Stephen Covey, the legendary expert on effective living: ““Time management is really a misnomer. The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.”
How true.
Time is a gift. I cannot give it to myself. That I am alive today and healthy enough to write this article, and you are alive and well enough to read it—both these are gifts we can acknowledge (or ignore). We cannot give it to ourselves. As Jesus said, we cannot add a little bit to our lifespan by worrying about it.
I can only hope that I will be alive until tonight. I cannot give another day to myself, nor can anyone else guarantee it.
Covey is right. What I need to learn is to manage myself within the time I am blessed with.
Do you agree?
Time is money? No!
Taking cues from the business world, some of us tend to say things like, “Time is money.” I disagree. Totally.
If the value of time were measured by the money we make or lose, then the best things we do in life would be worthless—spending time with loved ones, visiting a sick relative, holding one’s children in one’s lap and playing with them, praying, enjoying nature, reaching out to a needy person, …
And some of the world’s best human beings—who spent their lives doing good, without getting paid for it—would have wasted their life
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Fr Joe Mannath SDB
