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How to make every second count  10/12/18

What are you doing with 86,400 seconds?

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How to make every second count  10/12/18

If you only a minute left to live what would you do with it? Would you call your parents? Would you try to find a way to get more time? Would you apologize for all the bad things you ever have done? This is a question I ask to make you think about what you do with your time every single day.

What really matters in the last minute of your life? All the things that you accomplished? Did you make an impact on the world? Will anybody remember you once you're gone? All these questions will only be answered with how we use our time which a lot of us take for granted, let me ask you.

Do you use it to the fullest extent or do you waste it trying to come up with excuses for why you're not doing what you've always wanted to do? A lot of us find each other somewhere in the middle of these questions due to our different circumstances and situations that we go through. Which I can understand but that shouldn't be an excuse to waste the time that we have. For a lot of us we were not taught to take advantage of our time, people older than us say: "Oh you're young and you have plenty of time." However, we actually have no idea how much time we have left.

As I got older I learned time management is not something that's taught in our culture but we all learn. So as your spending your time reading this remember to take advantage of as much time as possible! We could only have a couple months or weeks to do what we've always dreamed of, so don't spend any more time letting things waste away or being too afraid to go for it.

So now that we're at the end of this article, think about it. If you died right now, would you be satisfied?

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