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TIME IS MONEY
Every
conscious human being is well aware of the fact that “time is money”, the
aphorism is a very famous quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin in a short
letter titled “Advice to a Young Tradesman”. This particular metaphor has
remained an important lesson in finance, business as well as in education. Time is your
most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more
money, but you can't make more time. “Time once gone is gone forever”.
This sentence has encapsulated the true value of time. Time gives only one
chance and one has to put all effort and intelligence to make it best usable.
People say time is money. But I am saying that it is
more precious than money. Money lost can be recovered, but not the time lost. A
moment lost is lost forever. Time is ever changing. Change is the law of
nature. Nothing is independent of change or time. Man’s life is very short but
the work is much large and difficult. There is so much to do in one's life.
Therefore, we should not waste even a single minute. Every breath, every second
should be used properly and meaningfully. Even the strongest and
powerful monarchs have been helpless before time. Even they could not command
time to stop.
Time is really a wonderful thing. It can be defined
satisfactorily as- It has no beginning and no ending. All things are born in
time, grow in time and then decay and die in time. No matter how rich or poor we are, each of us gets
the identical daily ration of precisely 24 hours. So it's one
dimension of life working to reduce the gap between rich and poor. Time can be turned into money if it
is utilized efficiently in present, time never stops. It never shows pity to
poor and never salutes the rich. It has its own weight and value. It cannot be
returned and cannot be saved. Time is totally detached. It favors none, it
opposes none. One must obey time, understand it and work with it and within it.
Time and space is not within us, we are within time and space. None can
dedicate time and create it. It can only
be used as an opportunity. Time is more precious than money because if money
lost in business can be regained. But time once lost, can never come back.
Often
we don’t care about our time and we are dependent on others which is the
biggest mistake because, when we give our time to someone we are giving him a
portion of our life that we will never get back as Steve Jobs says: “your time
is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life”. In an article ‘The Journal of Consumer Psychology’, Jennifer Aaker, Melanie Rudd and Cassie Mogilner,
marketing experts at Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania, remind
everyone the ultimate reason why time is an end as well as a means: the way
each of us chooses to spend our time and the experiences we accumulate over the
years quite literally constitute our lives.
People often repeat the well-known
aphorism: Time is Money. However, most people are saying it without catching up
the meaning of the words. And usually such people have more time than money and
often run out of both. Indeed, however concepts “time” and “money” are closely
related, they are not equal. One can turn into the other, but not by itself,
but only at the expense of purposeful human effort. Unfortunately, not everyone
possesses the art of such transformation. Some people complain about the lack
of money, but do not know how to kill their time while others earn decent
amount of money, but cannot find a minute of free time. In formula, “time is
money”-there is great wisdom which, however, is formulated too generally. Time,
unlike money, you cannot borrow, save or pile it up for future use. Whether we
like it or not we have to spend and at a fixed rate; 60 minutes in an hour.
Time cannot be turned off as some kind of a mechanism or be replaced, as an
employee or partner. Thus, the time is the most ruthless and inflexible element
of our existence, so we must learn how to properly allocate it.
It is quite difficult to show and
prove that time is money. But there is small and simple way to realize them about
its value.
First: it is usually listened from few
hard-working people that “time is money”, don’t waste it. Actually this type of
people works hard and gains a lot. Irrespective of these persons, we have also
seen the kind of men sitting and passing time. These people usually say that it
is very hard to pass time. Actually this kind of people does nothing and also
earn nothing. So it is proved that the person who uses time efficiently gains
respect, status, money and high reputation in the society. They treat time as
“money”. And who spoils time do nothing and is very worthless people, so they
left the time and hence the money. Time slipped from their hand leaving them workless,
unemployed and worthless. Second: it is seen many genius students do hard labor
in study and manage time to execute their plan for which costs very little for
the course, whereas same courses costs laths of rupees in private institutions.
Thus it is seen that by using time cleverly the student indirectly earns money
by achieving high rank in the competition. He has to pay very little amount.
Ultimately they also get selected by reputed employers.
Imagine
there is a bank, which credits your account each morning with 86,400 dollars,
carries over no balance over day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance and
every evening cancels every pence, of course, 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. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the
records 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”. There is
never enough time or too much time. All of us should utilize our time well,
every second we lose, is like every dollar we’ve just lost.
The most important difference between
time and money is that time, unlikely money, is distributed fairly among
people. For a worker and supervisor, student and housewife, business man and
beggar, there are 24 hours in a day and not a second more. Therefore, the
problem is not how much time we have, but how we use it. People, who do not
know how to manage their time, are in constant tension. They are always
something to do, and thus suffer from pangs of conscience because of unfinished
businesses and missed opportunities. Not surprisingly, the time is never enough.
Time,
it really is the greatest asset that we own, and how we use it determines our
future. If you do not value your time, people will take it for granted and not
value it either. We must realize that value of time in order to be successful,
prosperous and happy. Time should never be wasted in gossiping, roaming
aimlessly or worrying about the past and future. There are no tomorrows and
yesterdays; it is today which is important in human being’s life.
To
ensure best use of time in life, one needs to be very punctual. Punctuality
avoids inconvenience and tension. It offers great opportunity, which, if struck
properly brings big results. Opportunity once lost is hardly regained. Proper
use of time brings success and achievements. Doing everything in time should be
the guiding principle of life.
-Shaikh
Asadullah-
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