If time is the stuff life is made of, then life is a weekly schedule. We give our passing moments to something, I thought, even if we don’t plan that time in a purposeful schedule.
It was a long ride home from a class reunion with plenty of time to think. Thirty years ago, we had all graduated from college with high expectations. But we took different paths in our lives. We now had various experiences, adventures, travels, and financial outcomes.
One of my old classmates had recently finished an Ironman Triathlon. I asked her how in the world she had completed this grueling twelve-hour event?
“The Ironman event was the easy part,” she quipped. “The real challenge was the training that led up to it. I had to train for three hours every day for a whole year.”
“How did you find the time for that?”
“I cleared the schedule. I made it my priority.”
Driving home from the reunion, I contemplated her simple answer.
It was obvious that all of us were busy during the past thirty years. We all made time for something, consciously or not. But several people turned their dreams into their realities by making them a priority. They cleared time and made time in a weekly schedule.
If we don’t control our schedule, we won’t control our lives. Our conditions grow from the seeds of scheduled hours. We must weed out the schedule to make time to grow our dreams.
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
Stephen Covey
