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Jack
Black Belt
Joined: 22 Jun 2001
Posts: 1591
Location: England
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Just a little something to get you thinking 
Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course! Well, everyone has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against the "tomorrow".
You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success! The clock is running. Make the most of today.
To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who has failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who has given birth to a pre-mature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE DAY, ask a daily wage laborer who has kids to feed.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet. To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who has missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who has avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLI-SECOND, ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics. Treasure every moment that you have!
Full credits to Fariborz Azhakh.
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Bon
Black Belt
Joined: 10 Aug 2001
Posts: 1047
Location: Australia
Styles: BJJ, Kickboxing
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That's an awesome analogy, Jack!
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spinninggumby
Purple Belt
Joined: 24 Jan 2002
Posts: 519
Location: Seattle, WA
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| Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2002 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Really inspirational |
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Karateka
Red Belt
Joined: 22 Jun 2001
Posts: 786
Location: North Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2002 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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Cool!
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ramcalgary
Blue Belt
Joined: 09 Dec 2001
Posts: 347
Location: Calgary Canada
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| Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2002 7:27 am Post subject: |
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Ya great, but why waste your time posting it.
You could have done more productive things with your time instead. Come to think of it what am I doing wasting my time adding a comment . Bye
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Jack
Black Belt
Joined: 22 Jun 2001
Posts: 1591
Location: England
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| Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2002 11:08 am Post subject: |
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| ram, it took me all of 60 seconds to load up this website, make a new thread and paste this Plus is it not worth a little bit of your time to help and inspire the others? |
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SaiFightsMS
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Joined: 28 Oct 2001
Posts: 6397
Location: Ohio
Styles: Shotokan, Shorin Ryu, Shi-to Ryu
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| Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2002 11:54 am Post subject: |
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Have to agree with you there Jack. And if we spend no time thinking about what to do, how can we really make the best use of the time we have.
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YODA
Black Belt
Joined: 25 Jan 2002
Posts: 1033
Location: England (int'north west)
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| Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2002 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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Good stuff Jack - definately one for my collection 
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KickChick
Black Belt
Joined: 02 Aug 2001
Posts: 3282
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Jack... I have this same printout posted on the safe (holding all of our company's assets). When one of the employees came in to open the safe to put something in they had remarked "who stuck this here and why??" .... and I replied that everyone is so worried about how much is going into the safe and coming out and being deposited to our bank and so on and so forth ... I thought it was "worth" reading!
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SaiFightsMS
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Joined: 28 Oct 2001
Posts: 6397
Location: Ohio
Styles: Shotokan, Shorin Ryu, Shi-to Ryu
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Good thinking Kickchick. Some people do have a problem with lateral thinking don't they?
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