See Your Week as Just that a Week
See your week as just that, a week. This means don’t over plan your week. You are one person who can only do so much work.
Have you ever thought about how many hours you have in a week? If not, let me help you…you have 168 hours in a week.
Have you ever wondered why some people get more done in their week than you?
See your week for what it is. It’s a week, 7 days, 168 hours.
See what your week is not. It’s not a month, 30 or 31 days or what seems like an endless amount of hours.
Once you have a true picture of a week, you’ll stop trying to cram more and more into this short and limited amount of time. Value your week. It’s yours to use however you desire.
I’m going to try to tell you the story of the marbles. Before I do, this story is modified for my use, just in case you recognize parts and pieces of it. The story tells of a guy who did not value his time for whatever reason. So he accepted a challenge which consisted of him purchasing a jar. Next, based on the assumption that he would live to be 80 years old, he calculated the number of weeks he had left in life. For example, let’s say he was 40. This would give him 2080 weeks (40 years * 52 weeks) left in life. Next, he purchased 2080 marbles to place in the jar. Each Saturday that passed, he would take out one marble and throw it in the trash. The week before his 81st birthday, he drew out the last marble. On and after his 81st birthday, he continued the challenge, but this time he added marbles back into the jar.
Now, let’s talk about this, how would you feel if you were the man and you had 2079 marbles left in your jar?
How would you feel if you were down to just 100 marbles?
What would a week be worth to you, if you only had 30 marbles remaining?
This concept is what I use each week to remind my team, my family and even myself of how important each week is; how important life is.
How do you think this man felt as marbles were added to his jar? I would imagine he was grateful each time God gave him one more marble. I think you should adopt this attitude of gratitude. Let’s not wait until our jar empties and it begins to fill again. We might not be that fortunate.
How are you using your week? Do you have a plan for it or are you just letting it slip away. “Number your days…” In other words have a plan for each of your days. Just like Dave Ramsey says give every dollar a name, I say give every hour a name.
Today is Friday… You know what to do make this one count!
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