Tuesday; February 1
The other morning I was standing in front of the microwave waiting for it to warm up some coffee and I had a troubling thought, “Well, that is another minute I will never get back.”. As I look back on that thought, the first thing that comes to mind is how much I have been influenced by instant gratification – it took a whole minute to warm up my coffee. Yet, the thing that really got me to thinking was how much time I waste. While I see the value in “down time” and relaxing, how many minutes, hours, days (and maybe even years) have I wasted doing nothing … or even worse, doing something that is counter-productive? How many hours have I spent watching TV shows I really didn’t like just because that’s what I did? How many hours have I sat around surfing the web just because I didn’t find anything better to do? Please don’t misunderstand me, I am not opposed to watching TV or movies or enjoying the great big wide world of the internet. My problem is doing it out of mere habit wit